What is the progress on the implementation of the national strategy Women Centred Care: Strategic Directions for Australian maternity services. Please sign and share this letter to your local member. We want to know a status report on the implementation of the national policy Women Centred Care: Strategic Directions for Australian maternity services. The strategy seeks improve maternity care

Dignity in Maternity Care is Respectful Care Dignity is a touchstone concept in human rights, ethics, politics, philosophy and Respectful Maternity Care.  Human dignity is inalienable right, based on the inherent human worth of a person.  Hence, pregnant women should never be treated as a means to the ends of others. Dignity is the opposite

Respectful Maternity Care Safe Motherhood for All would like you to know about our initiative the Respectful Maternity Care Postcard. The Respectful Maternity Care Postcard is intended to be received by all pregnant women and hopefully this access will occur early in woman’s pregnancy. Safe Motherhood for All asks you to please send the respectful

A social justice approach to maternity care World leaders have committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals aimed at ending poverty, fighting inequality, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity, peace and justice.  UN Women has identified that achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 goals. Only by ensuring the rights

Getting your first birth right MHM believes it is very important for childbearing women to receive safe, evidenced based,  respectful maternity care so as to have healthy, strong and confident mothers. What poorer start to life for the baby than an unwell mother.  Healthy, strong and confident mothers give a baby the best start influencing

The Myth of Women’s Choices in U.S. Maternity Care Nancy K. Lowe, Editor Article first published online: 9 OCT 2015 The Editorial in the JOGNN discusses the two side of the maternity care debate.  While the article is focussed on the US health system, it provides a balanced discussion. Two perspectives are discussed: One is the

Food for thought – in more ways then one. An article appeared in The Conversation in November 2016.  The article is below.  On reading it, I wondered if the similar bias in research is impacting on maternity care and the rising use of infant formula and what is the impact on the future health of women and

Five tips to get real maternity care reform An article in The Conversation – Five tips to get the government started on real health reform – July 22, 2016; provides insightful options that must be included in the National Maternity Services Framework. In summary the five tips focused on maternity care are: Put women must be the centre of

It is all about relationship – Informed Decisions and Consent in Maternity “The right to informed consent is a fundamental principle of medical ethics and human rights law and is particularly relevant to the provision of medical treatment. In addition, our common law starts from the premise that every human body is inviolate and cannot

Why is it so? That mothers and babies are not benefiting from current pregnancy care? To understand this problem it is necessary to understand the recent history of birthing in Australia. In the early twentieth century, the majority of women gave birth at home. Today 95% of birth is in hospitals. Infant and maternal mortality