The aim of this study was to examine how students of midwifery experienced the writing of daily reflections on their practice at birthing units.
The World Health Organisation recommends improving care practices at birth in order to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality.
In addition, women were asked about their delivery experience for each pregnancy including the place of delivery, what assistance they received during labour, hygiene practices at birth and care of the infant soon after delivery.
The study nevertheless provides important insights into midwifery practice at home births and how they serve as protective factors in relation to perineal injuries.
The anaesthetic team must embrace the presence of the baby at the 'head-end', and midwives need to accept that what is good practice at a vaginal birth is also achievable in theatre.
Given her strong commitment to children affected by HIV/AIDS, and to social and cultural change in relation to breastfeeding practice and sex selection at birth as well as road safety in Viet Nam, she will be a compelling and eloquent advocate for these and related issues".
the objective of this study was to describe and compare perinatal and neonatal outcomes of women who received care from independent midwives practicing home births and at birth centres in Tokyo.
Under family pressure to ensure that their only child is a son, women often choose to abort baby girls or discard them at birth, practices that have skewed China's sex ratio to 118 boys for every 100 girls.
Among practices, ANSs and intubation at birth showed relatively high centre variations and favourable ORs for mortality, whereas C/S showed a low centre variation and the same favourable OR.
"Given her strong commitment to children affected by HIV and AIDS, and to social and cultural change in relation to breastfeeding practices and sex selection at birth as well as road safety in Viet Nam, she will be a compelling and eloquent advocate for these and related issues," he said.
