The World Health Organisation framed the ‘Birth is not an illness’ statement over two decades ago identifying that at least 85 percent of women should be able to give birth without medical intervention. In the last two decades, women in New Zealand have experienced escalating levels of intervention during childbirth and a declining ‘normal’ birth rate – the latter being recorded as 64.8 percent of all births in the NZHIS Maternity Snapshot 2010. As many interventions, including induction of labour, ARM, analgesia and anaesthesia, are included in that rate, it is unknown how many women and babies actually experienced physiological labours and births.
The Spirit of Birth: Nature, Nurture and the Evidence embraces birthing without unnecessary medical procedures and actively promotes the protection and restoration of physiological birth as a childbirth culture to strive for in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a ‘hearts and minds on’ programme on evidence-informed practice - irrespective of the midwife’s practice environment or employment status.
Issues covered during the day include:
- The birth
environment
- Initiation
of labour
- Membrane
integrity
- Meconium-stained
liquor
- Assessment
of labour progress
- Assessing
the unborn baby’s response to labour
- Modalities
of pain relief
- Placental
birth
This
Workshop is intended to support practice by:
- Broadening
midwives’ knowledge around key areas of physiological birth
- Identifying
the impact on women and babies of statistically common interventions
- Identifying
evidence-informed care that promotes physiological birth
- Offering
opportunity for midwives to reflect on their own practice
- Facilitating
discussion and debate on maternity practice where the evidence
is inconclusive
- Promoting
strategies to protect and promote physiological childbirth
Presenter
Maggie Banks (PhD, RM, RGON) is an independent midwifery educator and researcher
in the Waikato. A home birth midwife for 22 years, she previously
worked for 18 years in women’s and newborn health in both
large and small hospital settings.
Date
Thursday 29 March 2012
9.30am - 4.30 pm (Coffee available from 9.15am)
Venue
Birthspirit Cottage, 15 Te Awa Road, Tamahere (between Hamilton and Cambridge).
Cost
$185.00 (incl. GST) Registration includes lunch,
morning and afternoon refreshments during the Workshop, plus printed
material.
Registration
Pre-registration
is essential. Numbers are limited to 13 people - places are allocated as paid
registrations are received.
You can
register and pay by secure credit card, online banking or by cheque:
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Midwifery
Council's Recertification Programme
The Spirit
of Birth: Nature, Nurture and the Evidence has been allocated
5 points in the elective education category of Council’s
Recertification Programme for midwives. Certificates will be issued
on the day
Further
information
Contact Maggie for any queries - ph 07 856 4612 or email maggiebanks@birthspirit.co.nz |
