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The PRIMROSE project: What is ‘physiological birth’? Exploring the perceptions of care providers and birthing persons in Australia: A qualitative descriptive study 樱草花项目:什么是“生理出生”?探索澳大利亚护理人员和分娩人员的看法:一项定性描述性研究。
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104617
Brooke.I. Henshall , Heather.A. Grimes , Jennifer Davis , Christine.E. East
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Multidimensional sleep health and breastfeeding self-efficacy: A cross-sectional study 多维睡眠健康与母乳喂养自我效能:一项横断面研究
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104618
Sha Li , Xianyan Hao , Yanzhe Wang , Xingchen Shang , Qingyu Wang , Jiayin Ruan
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“Being on the edge, longing for the hand that shows the way”- A meta-synthesis of women's experiences of midwife support during the latent phase “处于边缘,渴望得到指引道路的手”——对女性在潜伏期助产士支持经历的综合分析
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104616
Karin Glad , Lena Miberg , Viola Nyman
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Development and preliminary testing of a scenario-based instrument to measure nutrition literacy of pregnant women 开发和初步测试基于场景的工具,以衡量孕妇的营养素养
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104613
Tzu-Ling Chen , Li-Ling Liao , Mi-Hsiu Wei , Yueh-Yin Fang , Chia-Hsun Wu
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Development and pilot test of a CTG skills test for midwives 助产士CTG技能测试的开发和试点测试
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104614
Maija Männistö , Kristiina Heinonen , Marja Härkänen , Reeta Lamminpää
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Socioeconomic deprivation as a risk factor for stillbirth: A case-control study 社会经济剥夺是死产的危险因素:一项病例对照研究
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104615
Jessica V. Keane , Paul Corcoran , Sara Leitao , Joye McKernan , Edel Manning , Keelin O’Donoghue , Richard A. Greene
{"title":"Socioeconomic deprivation as a risk factor for stillbirth: A case-control study","authors":"Jessica V. Keane ,&nbsp;Paul Corcoran ,&nbsp;Sara Leitao ,&nbsp;Joye McKernan ,&nbsp;Edel Manning ,&nbsp;Keelin O’Donoghue ,&nbsp;Richard A. Greene","doi":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104615","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104615","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Stillbirth is a devastating outcome for families. Identifying and addressing risk factors is of crucial importance. Level of deprivation has been linked to adverse perinatal outcomes, including stillbirth.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An observational case-control study was conducted, matching cases of stillbirth (<em>n</em> = 127) with a control cohort of live births (<em>n</em> = 266, ratio 2:1). Retrospective data on maternal characteristics, pregnancy details and neonatal outcomes from 2018–2021 was collected from a tertiary maternity unit in the Republic of Ireland. The Pobal HP Deprivation Index was used to categorise small areas into levels of deprivation. Maternal age, parity, BMI, booking visit gestation were considered potential confounding factors. Statistical analysis using SPSS, included: descriptive statistics, Chi-squared tests, T-tests. Logistic regression for crude and multivariate analysis, including odds ratio calculations, were used to identify differences in risk of stillbirth across the deprivation levels and categories of confounding factors.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results demonstrated no statistically significant correlation between level of deprivation and risk of having a stillbirth (<em>p</em> = 0.288) in this sample. When readjusted into quintiles of deprivation, a slightly higher representation of stillbirth was noted in the more deprived levels, though not statistically significant. When examining by cause of death, there was a significant association between deprivation and placental causes of death (<em>p</em> = 0.048). High BMI was consistently associated with stillbirth, while late booking visit gestation and advanced maternal age also showed associations.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study found no clear link between deprivation and stillbirth but observed higher placental-related stillbirth in deprived quintiles, emphasising the need for further national research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18495,"journal":{"name":"Midwifery","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 104615"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Postnatal bedsharing advice, risk and exploitation: a feminist analysis 产后同床建议、风险和剥削:女权主义分析
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104612
Anna Melamed
{"title":"Postnatal bedsharing advice, risk and exploitation: a feminist analysis","authors":"Anna Melamed","doi":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104612","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104612","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Problem</h3><div>Breastfeeding is beneficial to babies and mothers. Postnatal bedsharing is evidenced to support breastfeeding and maternal wellbeing. Advice against bedsharing creates a barrier to breastfeeding. It also frames women as an inherent risk to their baby, something statistically untrue in the absence of known risk factors. Women are advised to both breastfeed, and to not bedshare, which sets up a contradiction. Telling mothers they are simultaneously a risk to, and a resource for, the baby, can lead to exhaustion, shame, confusion and difficulties breastfeeding.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>To investigate this seeming contradiction in UK breastfeeding and bedsharing advice I examine the risk discourse and Douglas’ conception of risk and pollution. To explain why women’s bodies are a site of contestation, and why some risks (overlaying) are amplified over others (lower breastfeeding rates or maternal exhaustion) I use radical materialist feminism. I argue that risk discourses and taboos around bedsharing are part of a patriarchal ontology of the sovereign individual which denies the intrinsic interdependence and relationality. Denying the centrality of the mother-baby dyad as a relation is part of the mechanism of exploitation of women. The bedsharing advice reduces the woman’s subjectivity and agency, which is to the detriment of mothers and babies because their wellbeing is interdependent.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The prevalence of bedsharing advice is explained by an ontology in which individuals are imagined as a risk and/or a resource to one another. The driving force is not the wellbeing and support of the dyad, but exploitation of women and re-enforcement of patriarchal logic. Women-centred feminist postnatal advice would better support the dyad.</div></div><div><h3>Tweetable abstract</h3><div>Advice against postnatal bedsharing positions women as a risk and resource, to the detriment of the mother-baby dyad and breastfeeding, and in service of patriarchal exploitation of women as a resource.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18495,"journal":{"name":"Midwifery","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 104612"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Corrigendum to "Witnessing a loss and the lived experiences of physicians, nurses, and midwives providing care in perinatal loss in Turkey: A phenomenological study" [Midwifery 149 (2025) 104577]. “目睹损失和医生,护士和助产士在土耳其围产期损失提供护理的生活经验:现象学研究”的勘误表[助产士149(2025)104577]。
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104599
Gül Büşra Altunay, Merve Yazar Renkyorgancı, Emel Ege, Şerife Didem Kaya
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Food adaptations and challenges during early pregnancy: A qualitative exploration of women’s experience 怀孕早期的食物适应和挑战:对妇女经验的定性探索
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104609
Cindy Chevalley Gerber , Isabelle Carrard , Marielle Schmied , Raphaël Hammer
{"title":"Food adaptations and challenges during early pregnancy: A qualitative exploration of women’s experience","authors":"Cindy Chevalley Gerber ,&nbsp;Isabelle Carrard ,&nbsp;Marielle Schmied ,&nbsp;Raphaël Hammer","doi":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Maternal nutrition is a significant factor influencing both fetal and maternal health. Barriers to healthy eating during pregnancy have been mostly investigated in terms of nutritional awareness and compliance with nutritional guidelines. However, little is known about women’s experiences of changing dietary practices in the first trimester of pregnancy specifically.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To explore women’s experiences of food adaptation in the context of daily life in early pregnancy, focusing on challenges and strategies to deal with them.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 20 pregnant women after 16 weeks’ gestation in Switzerland. Data analysis followed the principles of thematic analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>We produced three core themes – “navigating the information jungle”, “handling pregnancy symptoms”, “keeping pregnancy secret and social norms around meals” – reflecting three significant challenges women faced in early pregnancy, and eight strategies they used to deal with these challenges.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our findings highlight that food adaptations in early pregnancy lie at the intersection of bodily, cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial dimensions of eating. The absence of consultation with a perinatal health professional characterises early pregnancy, fostering women’s anxiety and uncertainty in relation to nutritional recommendations. Pregnant women should be entitled to an earlier reimbursed follow-up appointment during the first trimester. A consultation with a midwife or a dietitian would be particularly well-suited to provide them with reassurance and to help them achieve healthy diet despite the challenges they encounter.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18495,"journal":{"name":"Midwifery","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 104609"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Implementation of the clinical practice guideline on intrapartum care for low-risk births in Belgium 实施临床实践指南的产中护理低风险分娩在比利时。
IF 2.5 3区 医学
Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104606
Yvonne J Kuipers , Roxanne Bleijenbergh , Eveline Mestdagh
{"title":"Implementation of the clinical practice guideline on intrapartum care for low-risk births in Belgium","authors":"Yvonne J Kuipers ,&nbsp;Roxanne Bleijenbergh ,&nbsp;Eveline Mestdagh","doi":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.midw.2025.104606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The newest Belgian clinical practice guideline on intrapartum care for low-risk births requires support to facilitate its implementation, as merely presenting guidelines does not guarantee adoption by end-users.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To systematically identify and prioritise clinical questions that need greater implementation support, understand the context of barriers and facilitators to implementation, and define a set of healthcare behavioural implementation activities for Belgian maternity services.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We employed an integrated knowledge translation approach, combining the Knowledge-To-Action and Intervention Mapping frameworks. This approach involves identifying clinical questions that require enhanced implementation support, analysing barriers within the context, and defining change and performance objectives. Feedback from a Belgian multi-stakeholder consulting group and Advisory Board informed the process.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Two clinical questions require greater support for implementation: (1) initial clinical investigations during labour and (2) ongoing investigations and interventions during a low-risk birth. Barriers to applying the recommendations include individual healthcare professional factors and professional interactions. Implementation demands healthcare professionals recognise the physiological aspects of labour and birth, stay updated on the evidence, accept the evidence supporting the management of low-risk births, and involve shared decision-making while seeking the woman’s consent. Achieving behavioural change consists of shifting attitudes, intentions, knowledge, social norms, and skills.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>The identified barriers to implementing recommendations emphasise the crucial role of interpersonal dynamics in successful guideline implementation. Therefore, policies should tackle structural challenges within Belgian maternity care.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>To enhance maternity care services, communication, collaboration, and mutual understanding across professional boundaries are needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18495,"journal":{"name":"Midwifery","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 104606"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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