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Out
on a limb: The personal mandate to practise midwifery by midwives
of the Domiciliary Midwives Society of New Zealand (Incorporated),
1974-1986
This is the doctoral thesis by Maggie Banks completed in 2007. It
is on the herstory (history) of home birth midwifery in New Zealand
during 1974 - 1986. At that time home birth midwives were called
domiciliary midwives. ... (full
thesis in PDF format)
Active
Breech
Birth: the point of least resistance
by Maggie Banks. In March 2006 I attended the first international
Breech Birth Conference in Vancouver, Canada which gathered together
midwives, medical practitioners and researchers to discuss such
issues as research, safety and techniques used during vaginal breech
birth ... (full
article in PDF format)
Facilitating
Breech Birth: Midwifery (and Women’s) Business!
by Maggie Banks. This paper places the breech debate in context
of the overall Caesarean epidemic. It also speaks to the need for
midwives to critically explore the policies, protocols and guidelines
for breech birth in their local hospitals ... (full
article in PDF format)
Utilising
the Unborn Baby’s In-Labour Movements by Maggie
Banks. The unborn baby has distinct behavioural states in pregnancy.
I have observed over many years of home birth practice that the
majority of unborn, well babies continue to move throughout the
labours of their well mothers ... (full
article in PDF format)
But
whose art frames the questions? by Maggie Banks.
Midwives need to be vigilant to ensure the defining of appropriate
midwifery practice has not been colonized by obstetric thought.
Any guiding must reflect the essential Midwifery Model of Care in
the evidence amassed and the way in which it is applied .... (full
article in PDF format)
Commentary
on the Term Breech Trial by Maggie Banks. This commentary
on the Term Breech Trial was published on 6 December 2000. It draws
attention to the serious flaws in the trial the first in a series
of papers about relating to breech birth. This page also contains
the 'Term Breech Trial' abstract. December 2000 ... (full
article in PDF format)
A
Letter to My Midwife Sisters by Maggie Banks. '
Midwives (and childbearing women) should never fool themselves that
birth in hospitals can be ‘just like home birth’ ...
' (full
article in PDF format)
Breech
Birth Beyond the ‘Term Breech Trial by Maggie
Banks. The Term Breech Trial (TBT) was established to end decades
of debate around the question - ‘which is the better way for
the breech baby at term to be born: planned Caesarian section or
planned vaginal birth?’ … As an avid watcher of the
Term Breech Trial the findings come as no surprise … it did
not take long for concerns to rise when reading the Term Breech
Trial Newsletters available on the website. … The way in which
vaginal breech delivery is conducted within the Medical Model of
Care is no more conducive to a physiological process of giving birth
than any other medically ‘managed’ birth ... (full
article in PDF format)
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