Sensitive Midwifery - Issue 44 - October 2019

CONTENTS Issue 44 • October 2019 Anterior 4. Our voice » Editor Margreet Wibbelink explains why this is the final edition » Meet three key contributors to Issue 44 6. Your voice About achieving woman-centred care, your appetite for online learning, and feelings about being a midwife 8. Guest voice Are you the best midwife you can be, asks Prof. Marie Hastings-Tolsma Pregnancy 10. Food, the original medicine The importance of nutritional instinct in pregnancy 12. Together it’s better How group antenatal care can help women and midwives 16. Belly talk » Fertility app proven to be useful » Obstetric cholestasis – who is at risk? » No clear risk factor for two- thirds of preterm births » Mourning miscarriage with a Buddhist ritual Birth 18. Birth in Alaska Midwives attend more births than anywhere else in the United States 20. The future of natural birth in South Africa 24. VBAC the midwife way Understanding women’s specific needs and concerns, and safety guidelines 27. Birth review » C-sections riskier in some regions of the world » Managing a midwifery group practice » Peanut ball helps labour progress » Babies born by C-section deserve skin-to-skin care too 28. Let’s make maternity units more woman-centred Dimensions 30. Iodine in maternity care The importance of balance 34. Self-Care 101 37. Horizons » Working CLEVER could improve perinatal mortality » Can technology help midwives save lives in childbirth? » Poverty changes our genes 38. A midwife’s silence is golden Speech is silver but silence is golden 10 20 34 2 eSensitive Midwifery Magazine Issue 44