Scoop, an independent news outlet in New Zealand, reports on the introduction of virtual education to Otago Polytechnic’s midwifery programme. First, second and third-year students will visit the government-funded SLENZ island on SL to supplement their real world learning. One of the advantages to this is that it enables students to build their education within their own community, enhancing their connection to the people they may eventually service as midwives.
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The number of midwifery schools in the country has increased from six in 2002 to 31 in 2009, according to Pashtoon Azfar, director of the National Association of Midwives (NAM). Since 2002, more than 2,000 midwives have been trained and employed by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and NGOs in health centres across the country, Azfar told IRIN.
Ricki Lake has a long resume: actress, former talk show host, documentary filmmaker, and mom. She’s also acommitted natural childbirth advocate who wants women to be educated about their options when it comes to giving birth.
In her new book, Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choics, and Take Back the Birth Experience, she and co-author Abby Epstein provide tons of info and advice to help women choose the kind of birth that’s right for them.
If life begins at 40, as is the mantra of the archetypal career woman, Verona Grant-Brissett strapped up to get in the game just after the opening whistle had blown.
But time has never been on her side.
A topsy-turvy life from serving as a pre-teen surrogate mother and cleaning floors to survive meant sacrificing her dreams early on. Later, Grant-Brissett was told she was too old to don her whites and become a nurse. Guess who’s laughing now?
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I wanted to look at whether as an educator I did enough to prepare the men in class? Do they want to be present during the labour and birth? Are they the most appropriate person to be adequately supporting women through the birthing process?
I also wanted to know if the men felt under pressure to be present during labour and birth and where did that pressure come from their partners or their peers. I also wanted to know if their intention was to be supportive or was it more about witnessing the birth of their offspring? But whatever the questions I wanted to know if there was more I needed to be doing as an educator and midwife to prepare the men to be more effective as a support person.
The context of midwifery education and Second Life
Published by Sarah Stewart on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM
As the regular readers of this blog will know, I am lead educator in a project to set up a virtual birthing unit in Second Life as a teaching tool for student midwives. I haven’t written about the project for a couple of weeks because we have been busy thinking, discussing and working through process issues.
I feel we have gone round and round in circles a number of times, but that is to be expected in a project of this size, and considering the diversity of people involved. So if you are going to start a project like this, make sure you factor in time for the ‘process’ that people have to go through with regards to decision-making before work can start.
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2009/02/context-of-midwifery-education-and.html
Each year, the U.S. spends over $50 billion dollars on childbirth. This is more than any other nation in the world. (This number does not include babies in the NICU or readmissions during the first month.)
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Technology and natural childbirth are not antagonists, in fact technology is a major factor shining the light on conscious birthing practices for modern families. Childbirth used to be a natural affair by default, and then the rise of industrialization coincided with the medicalization of birth. With the renaissance of midwifery and natural childbirth in the 1970’s, a new wave of holistic birthing brought forth more options for women birthing today.
Nizhoni is a Navajo word which conveys the spirit and practice of “the beauty way” as experienced and expressed through living in balance and harmony with the world. As midwives and students, we seek that balance as we honor both our valued birthing traditions and contemporary midwifery and medical knowledge. Graduates of the Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery are prepared to function as primary care providers for women throughout the childbearing cycle. As midwives, we bring harmony and balance to the work of labor and assist each woman to discover the transformative nature and experience of giving birth. As an institution providing midwifery education, we create and foster a strong commitment to excellence in midwifery practice in any given place or circumstance, once again honoring the practice of Nizhoni.
The mission of Seattle Midwifery School (SMS) is to educate and inspire leaders in childbirth professions. We strive for a world where every family has access to care, education and options, contributing to a safe and joyous pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
The School offers training for women’s health-care providers that values pregnancy and birth as normal and healthy processes, honors women’s ways of knowing, respects the needs of adult learners, and promotes personal and professional development.
Players start in the conception area (of course), move through the 40 weeks of pregnancy and when “it’s time,” begin labor. Remember, if you over do it, you have to go back to bed!
The first player to complete the pregnancy and dialate to 10 cm – WINS!- and gets to deliver the baby or babies.
Game Board Squares include 40 weeks of Fetal Development information. 180 Game Cards include educational and humorous topics covering all aspects of pregnancy and labor, along with facts, tips, and helpful information about pregnancy signs and symptoms, help and resource organizations, and options in labor and childbirth.
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VBAC.com
A woman-centered, evidence based, resource.
In the United States more than one million women, 1 in 3, give birth by cesarean every year, the most common major operation performed in the country. Current evidence shows that the majority of women can have safe vaginal births after a prior cesarean (a VBAC), but according to the US Centers for Disease Control the VBAC rate fell 67% in the last ten years.
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The Compleat Mother
The Magazine of Pregnancy, Birth and Breastfeeding.
The International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) as a professional organization supports educators and other health care providers who believe in freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in family-centered maternity and newborn care.
ICEA’s goals are to provide:
* Training and continuing education programs
* Quality educational resources
* Professional certification programs
ICEA is a nonprofit organization. Since its formation in 1960, ICEA members and member groups have remained autonomous, establishing their own policies and creating their own programs. There are no membership requirements for individuals other than a commitment to family-centered maternity care and the philosophy of freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in childbirth.
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Childbirth Graphics
Childbirth Graphics, a division of WRS Group, Ltd., has been the leader in childbirth education products for more than 20 years. Our quality educational materials are made especially for childbirth educators, lactation consultants, obstetricians and gynecologists, midwives, doulas, and other healthcare professionals.
Our specialty is developing the many unique 3-D teaching models you’ll find in our online catalog. These models and the other teaching materials we offer — such as videos, handouts, charts, and much more — give you the tools you need to teach about every aspect of the birth process from preconception planning through postpartum and beyond.