Sentences with phrase «maternity services support»

Most recently Alexa has been working in the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH) at Curtin University as a consultant to the Aboriginal Maternity Services Support Unit.

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The UK's public services — maternity and early years services, schools and social workers — have been and remain almost entirely mother - centric, and as a result consistently fail to support greater sharing by mums and dads.

Information for midwives, paediatricians, obstetricians and other professionals working in the maternity services: helping expectant fathers to support their pregnant partners, and supporting new fathers in the transition to parenthood.

maternity, early years, health, schools and other family services who see it as their core business to support positive father - child relationships

Antenatal tutor Noreen Hart from the National Childbirth Trust (which organised a family fun day in June 2010 to support the initiative) said: «During the last 12 months campaigners have been working closely with Wiltshire Community Health Services» midwifery team and the suggestion of partners having the opportunity of staying the first night after birth was welcomed by all involved in maternity sServices» midwifery team and the suggestion of partners having the opportunity of staying the first night after birth was welcomed by all involved in maternity servicesservices.

AIMS Ireland offers a confidential support service for women requiring assistance in making a complaint or sending a letter of recognition to a maternity unit.

• Maternity services to allow and encourage fathers to be present for doctor's ward round and when support is given on baby care skills

Special measures should be taken to promote community and workplace support to mothers in relation to pregnancy and lactation, and feasible and affordable child - care services, and compliance to the ILO Maternity Protection Convention 2000 (No. 183).

The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services emphatically denies supporting smear campaign

AIMSIreland offers confidential support and information to couples who have had difficult experiences in the Irish Maternity Services

We offer a unique, comprehensive model of maternity care that provides an exceptional level of holistic support and services to achieve optimum health.

She created the Village Maternity Services community as a means of supporting women from pregnancy through childbirth and infancy

• your partner • a close friend or relative • a midwife • a counsellor • your GP • a debriefing service through your maternity unit • peer support, from other women who are healing from birth trauma.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner,Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner,maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

This evidence supports the American Public Health Association's recommendation8 to increase access to out of hospital maternity care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.

These care options must be supported by an infrastructure which enables a seamless maternity service for women.

Throughout its 10 years in existence, the Association for Improvements to the Maternity Services in Ireland has supported maternity service users through becoming pregnant, through pregnancy and beyond and have seen many cases of consent being overridden by the 8th aMaternity Services in Ireland has supported maternity service users through becoming pregnant, through pregnancy and beyond and have seen many cases of consent being overridden by the 8th amaternity service users through becoming pregnant, through pregnancy and beyond and have seen many cases of consent being overridden by the 8th amendment.

If you are looking for support or information regarding pregnancy loss, you can contact your GP or support services at your local maternity unit.

AIMS Ireland are an organisation committed to supporting all women in all choices in maternal health, autonomy for women, and evidence based care practices in issues surrounding maternity services.

• Research at the University of Bristol showed some fathers — particularly young and / or black fathers — experience significant barriers to obtaining support within maternity services.

While improved maternity services help to increase the initiation of exclusive breastfeeding, support throughout the health system is required to help mothers sustain exclusive breastfeeding.

Eat - Sleep - Love's services include breastfeeding education, greenproofing (educating about eco-friendly pregnancy, birth and home environment options), maternity and newborn sleep hygiene education (including safe co-sleeping practices), babywearing education, safety awareness, education regarding stages of pregnancy, birth options information and referral, referrals to childbirth education classes, nursery planning support, child proofing information and referral, registry information and support, post-partum and return to work plans (including referrals for postpartum care and support), transition resources for those who plan to stay home, and more!

Services may include: breastfeeding education and support, maternity and newborn sleep hygiene education (including safe co-sleeping practices), birth options information and referral, greenproofing (educating about eco-friendly pregnancy, birth and home environment options), baby wearing information, cloth diapering information, safety awareness, education regarding stages of pregnancy, referrals to childbirth education classes, nursery set up support, child proofing information and referral, registry information and support, baby shower planning, bed rest plans, post-partum and return to work plans (including referrals for postpartum care and support), transition resources for those who plan to stay home, pregnancy and newborn photography referrals, and more!

We provide a support service to people who have had difficulties with the maternity services and we played a vital role in the creation of the National Maternity Strategy 2016 and also in the Standards for Better Safer Maternity Care in Ireland (HIQA)maternity services and we played a vital role in the creation of the National Maternity Strategy 2016 and also in the Standards for Better Safer Maternity Care in Ireland (HIQA)Maternity Strategy 2016 and also in the Standards for Better Safer Maternity Care in Ireland (HIQA)Maternity Care in Ireland (HIQA) in 2016.

This year in 2017 AIMS Ireland is celebrating its 10th year in supporting maternity service users in Ireland and to date we have supported many thousands of women, their babies and their families.

In all of our surveys of Maternity Service users in Ireland, breastfeeding support in our maternity services features proMaternity Service users in Ireland, breastfeeding support in our maternity services features promaternity services features prominently.

At this point, I didn't know what support may or may not be offered by our local maternity services, but with waiting lists understandably at 8 - 10 weeks — it felt like a sensible move, on day one.

By having a Bereavement Midwife with us — we are able to access the full understanding of our past experiences, and at the same time be supported in finding appropriate and manageable strategies for our pregnancies / births that are reasonable requests for the maternity services to work with us on.

The Strategy recommends more resources to support breastfeeding including that all maternity service adhere to the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.

This is something that I know the maternity services nationally are working on and is a clear indicator of families feeling safe, supported and well in their pregnancies.

Protecting, Promoting, and Supporting Breastfeeding: The Special Role of Maternity Services.

The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized democracies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal, physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes — including psychological satisfaction for the mother.

We are an upscale baby, children's, and maternity resale boutique and full - service breastfeeding support center — your one - stop shop for everything moms or moms - to - be need to embark on the most remarkable journey of their lives.

The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breast - feeding: The Special Role of Maternity Services.

The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative is a WHO / UNICEF global campaign that provides information, support, and assessment for implementation of best practice standards for the promotion and support of breastfeeding in maternity services.9 Hospitals are classified according to compliance with the evidence - based Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Box 1) 10,11 and are evaluated by an external assessment and award programme.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

The Roar Behind the Silence provides information, inspiration and practical suggestions to support maternity care workers, policy makers, and maternity care funders across the world in their quest to deliver sensitive, compassionate and high quality maternity services.

The document, entitled «Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding in Facilities Providing Maternity and Newborn Services: The Revised Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative 2017,» describes a revised set of Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and offers updated guidance for implementing the BFHI worldwide.

To achieve BFHI accreditation, health facilities must demonstrate a rate of at least 75 % exclusive breastfeeding among mothers at discharge, adherence to the International Code of Marketing Breast - milk Substitutes and successful implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, as defined by the joint WHO / UNICEF statement, «Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding: The special role of maternity services», which state that every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants should:

As we previously informed you, WHO and UNICEF have released PROPOSED new guidelines for the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in a document entitled «Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding in Facilities Providing Maternity and Newborn Services: The Revised Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative 2017.»

Joint statement protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding: The special role of maternity services.

19 December 2017 — eLENA has been updated to include interventions from the recently released guidelines Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services and Assessing and managing children at primary health - care facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition

Liberty is also taken by maternity services to extend the «an hour» limit to «half to one hour» or «one hour» (supported by literature at places).

Whilst it is highly commendable and reassuring that the UK healthcare system has made such progress with implementing the Baby Friendly standards, recent staff shortages in maternity services, cuts to health visiting services and de-commissioning of voluntary sector support undermine this success.

In beautifully written verse, Hearthside Maternity Services» creator Angelique Chelton, CLC, CBE, SBD declares her love for all women who offer breastfeeding support to women in need in a recent post on Angie's Blog.

Dr. Lu also stated his support of the philosophical principles of the MFCI:»... no woman should be subjected to unnecessary interventions and... every woman should be cared for in a system that respects her autonomy and upholds the principles of Empowerment, Do No Harm, and Responsibility and be given the choice of Mother - Friendly maternity services that you all champion... I applaud the leadership you've shown in promoting health equity over the years and want to commend you for confronting the theme of your Forum (Health Disparities in Maternity Care) this yeamaternity services that you all champion... I applaud the leadership you've shown in promoting health equity over the years and want to commend you for confronting the theme of your Forum (Health Disparities in Maternity Care) this yeaMaternity Care) this year.»

The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, a summary of the guidelines for maternity care facilities presented in the Joint WHO / UNICEF Statement Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: The Special Role of Maternity Services, (2) have been accepted as the minimum global criteria for attaining the status of a Baby - friendly maternity care facilities presented in the Joint WHO / UNICEF Statement Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: The Special Role of Maternity Services, (2) have been accepted as the minimum global criteria for attaining the status of a Baby - friendly Maternity Services, (2) have been accepted as the minimum global criteria for attaining the status of a Baby - friendly Hospital.

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Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

With more support and greater transparency in maternity services across England we will ensure every mother and baby receives the best and safest care, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — this is at the heart of the NHS values we are backing with funding from a strong economy.