Suzanne

 

It sounds as though it would be useful for you to provide input into the review of education standards that Mary Renfew is leading on. She sent the link previously encouraging list members to participate.

 

 

 

 

Hi everyone –

 

I am still a Registered Midwife (and have been for over 35 years). I am no longer working in Midwifery but I have followed this discussion with much interest. My PhD thesis was on ‘Normal Birth’…………. And I think that ONE of the chief concerns relates to how student midwives are very often taught all about normal/physiological/natural birth (or whatever one calls it) in classrooms and in practice suites if these are available. They are also tested on their understanding of this phenomenon and how to seek to achieve it. HOWEVER when they are in ‘real-life’ settings often in hospitals (but also in community settings) there are:

 

1. Not enough midwives experienced enough or perhaps confident enough to support the students to develop skills in reduced intervention birth – which can be another way of describing normal/physiological/natural birth.
2. Traditional practices, policies and guidelines that err towards intervention.

 

I think that the majority of women (in the UK at least) are giving birth in and student midwives are learning their craft in environments where these are the chief influencing factors.

 

I sincerely wish you well with solving this very thorny and critically important problem. In my thesis I found myself having to take account of the entrenched position that we are now in and I proposed a model for Midwives and Women to work together to start to turn back the tide of intervention………. But it will not be easy or a quick fix.

I will continue watching with interest,

 

 

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination (Nelson Mandela)

 

Dr. Susanne Darra   

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