Christa,
I am a midwife here in Toronto. Active on the Association of Ontario
Midwives, Standards and Research Ctte. You might want to email Karyn
Kaufman, who is the chair.She will be able to provide you with the process
which will help you contact midwives and their clients. Karyn Kaufman's
email is [log in to unmask]
Midwives here provide care to women birthing at home and in hospital. The
planned hospital clients leave within a few hours and get the same
postpartum care that our home birth clients do. This might add another
aspect to your study.
>Greetings from Toronto, Canada!
>
>As a Sociology Ph.D. student from Brandeis University in Massachusetts
>(U.S.), I am currently in Toronto studying the immediate postpartum
>experiences of women. Given the reduction in postnatal hospital care in
>Canada and in the U.S., I am trying to contextualize the issue of early
>postpartum discharge and understand womenís experiences during the first
>week after birth in terms of postnatal care. I will be conducting maternity
>ward observations in several hospitals in Toronto and in Boston. In
>addition, I will interview postpartum women who have given birth in the
>hospital, as well as women who have given birth at home. I expect to also
>interview midwives, obstetricians, pediatricians and nurses about postpartum
>care. I am hoping that my interviews with women who have given birth at
>home will shed light on the dynamics of the early postpartum period and how
>it is constructed in medical terms. This may be the key to understanding
>the conceptualization of the postpartum period as a time of medical needs.
>I would really appreciate any comments or suggestions on this qualitative
>dissertation project. In addition, I may be in Brazil for one to two months
>early next year, and would like to make contacts with birthing folks in Sao
>Paulo so that I can conduct some interviews about the postpartum period
>there as well. Any referrals would be really helpful.
ualization of the postpartum period as a time of medical needs.
best wishes,
Freda Seddon
Freda Seddon, RN, RM
Community Midwife
Midwifery Care Scarborough
2680 Lawrence Ave. East, Suite 211
Toronto, Ontario M1P 4Y4
(416) 757-4848 fax 757-1562
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