Sentences with phrase «where labouring women»

Disappointed by the medicalisation of birth and unnecessary intervention in hospitals, where labouring women were made to lie on their back, she started to advocate the use of movement and gravity to help labour and birth.

Not exact matches

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and women should regard trial of labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all women in labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.

I see being a mom as many things — a responsibility, a relationship, a labour of love, but an elevated «status» isn't one of them, unless you have the kind of worldview where a woman's status is bound up in the number of children she produces.

This is understandable, given the stressed maternity hospital environment in Ireland, where staff have little time to support women in labour [11].

[If you don't] You will have a higher section rate, so part of that is you need to be in attendance to keep the birth normal and some of it is just to have an opinion about the strip, some if it is literally where you feel like you're standing guard, not against bad people but against keeping the space for the woman private and without a lot of stuff going on around her that's going to distract her just being in her labour.

Do not forget that you are looking at Homebirth within a very specific cultural milieu, that of predominantly white, well off women in developed countries, a culture where pregnant women expect to be the centre of attention during labour and delivery, and to be in control of every aspect of their lives.

Where possible, primary midwife was on call for the woman's labour and birth.

Other models of care include a) where the physician / obstetrician is the lead professional, and midwives and / or nurses provide intrapartum care and in - hospital postpartum care under medical supervision; b) shared care, where the lead professional changes depending on whether the woman is pregnant, in labour or has given birth, and on whether the care is given in the hospital, birth centre (free standing or integrated) or in community setting (s); and c) where the majority of care is provided by physicians or obstetricians.

«Labour's doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man's word against the woman's and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together.

Protests continue in Saudi Arabia, where calls for labour, women's and Shia rights have been prominent.

This compared with equivalent Labour conference events, where 39 % of speakers were women, and the Liberal Democrat fringe talks, which were 35 % female.

[7] The Conservative campaign focused on local issues, such as crime and antisocial behaviour, closure of post offices and problems at Leighton Hospital, where two women in labour were turned away, as well as national issues - referring to Dunwoody as «Gordon Brown's candidate» and capitalising on dissatisfaction with the Labour government, in particular the removal of the 10p taxlabour were turned away, as well as national issues - referring to Dunwoody as «Gordon Brown's candidate» and capitalising on dissatisfaction with the Labour government, in particular the removal of the 10p taxLabour government, in particular the removal of the 10p tax rate.

«Labour promised at the last election that every woman would be supported by the same midwife throughout her pregnancy and be entitled to choose where she gave birth,» he said.

Labour has drawn some criticism in recent months for its parliamentary selections in marginal seats, where no ethnic minority women have been selected at all, despite more than 60 selections taking place since the June election.

In doing so, Erickson opens a window onto a world where judges» and juries» responses to the most intimate or violent acts were coloured by a desire to shore up the liberal economic order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native people and newcomers, and capital and labour.