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| MIDWIFERY AND MATERNAL HEALTH IN THE NEWS |
| | | | | | | | | The disappearance of birth choices in Chicago Midwives and family medicine physicians are critical in working toward birth equity, both in Chicago and around the country (5, 6). Family physicians are perhaps the best suited providers for family-centered care as we can see patients for their primary care, pregnancy care, postpartum, and care for their newborns after delivery. Midwifery care is associated with improved outcomes for both the newborn and birthing parent (7, 8). Patients from every demographic deserve not just the standard of care, but a choice in who they see for their care and how they deliver their baby. |
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| | | A Network of Midwives Are Helping Pregnant Migrants across Mexico Serrano has been volunteering as a midwife for pregnant migrants like Angelica since 2023, attending to the places where they gather–like the encampment–twice a week. When she sees a pregnant woman among them, she approaches and introduces herself. The tag hanging around her neck reads, “Parteras apoyando migrantes” (“Midwives helping migrants”). |
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| | | | | Obstetric Violence and Mistreatment and Violence Against Women in Reproductive Health Services Obstetric violence during childbirth, mistreatment and violence against women who are seeking sexual and reproductive health services, are serious human rights violations, as well as a recognised form of gender-based violence (1). As such, they must be examined in the context of human (and reproductive) rights, not as a matter of quality of care (2). While these rights violations can affect all women of reproductive age, gender diverse people and women from marginalised and racialised communities are disproportionately impacted (3,4). |
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| | | | | | | | | Listening to Black Women's Perspectives of Birth Centers and Midwifery Care: Advocacy, Protection, and Empowerment Pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological changes experienced by millions of women annually, yet the neural changes unfolding in the maternal brain throughout gestation are not well studied in humans. Leveraging precision imaging, we mapped neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through 2 years postpartum. Pronounced decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness were evident across the brain, standing in contrast to increases in white matter microstructural integrity, ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid, with few regions untouched by the transition to motherhood. This dataset serves as a comprehensive map of the human brain across gestation, providing an open-access resource for the brain imaging community to further explore and understand the maternal brain. |
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| | | Emotional safety in maternity care: An evolutionary concept analysis Identified attributes of emotional safety in maternity care included ‘feeling secure’, ‘feeling heard and well taken care of’, experiencing ‘supportive and respectful care’, and being in a ‘calm care environment’. Antecedents to emotional safety in maternity care were ‘having care needs met’, enacting ‘personal agency’, and engaging in ‘trusting relationships’. The consequences of emotional safety for maternity care recipients were ‘positive impact on experience’, ‘feeling empowered’, and ‘improved outcomes’. A conceptual definition and model resulted that clarify and illustrate the concept of emotional safety in the context of receiving maternity care. |
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