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Essential Midwifery tour starts in the UK

Lynne Staff and I begin our “Essential Midwifery” tour of the UK today, with an event in London. We have had a lot of fun preparing for this event, which is a variation of the program we presented in many cities in Australia about 18 months ago.

The workshop is designed to follow on from basic programs such as “Active Birth” and to encourage participants to have a closer look at why women (and midwives) are not always having the birth experiences that they want.

The first part of the day looks at the systemic functioning of a maternity unit and what can be done about it. Then we have a closer look at the interactions between midwives and labouring women, using a series of role plays. This is the part that Lynne and I particularly enjoy, both being ham actors from way back!

Lynne tackles the issues of humanising complex births during the afternoon session. She looks at the impact of birth complications on women’s belief systems and encourages the participants, through a series of workshop activities, to explore how they manage difficult birth scenarios in their own units. She has a wonderful series of slides and a video that show women managing difficult births really well in environments of outstanding midwifery support.

The program is designed to encourage reflection, sensitivity and the development of practical strategies that can be adopted by individual midwives as well as by unit managements. It was very well received in Australia and we are looking forward to the reaction from British midwives. I will let you know how we get on.......

Posted by andrea at May 31, 2003 05:02 PM

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