2nd Edition
Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth
This new edition outlines how sustainability can be incorporated into midwifery practice, education and research. It has been thoroughly revised to include new models of sustainable midwifery practice and new chapters on rural midwives and rural communities, social justice, and compassion.
Environmental awareness and sustainability are vitally important concepts and, as a low environmental impact healthcare profession, midwifery has the potential to stand as a model of excellence. This international collection of experts explores the challenges, inviting readers to critically reflect on the issues and consider how they could move to effect changes within their own working environments. Divided into three parts, the book discusses:
- The politics of midwifery and sustainability
- Midwifery as a sustainable healthcare practice
- Supporting an ecological approach to parenting.
Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth is a vital read for all midwives and midwifery students interested in sustainable practice.
1.Globalisation of midwifery and maternity services: struggles in meaning and practice in states under pressure.
Jo Murphy-Lawless
2.Costing birth as commodity or sustainable public good
Sally K Tracy
3.Social Justice, motherhood, and midwives
Tricia Thompson
4.Valuing the labour of midwives in Ontario, Canada and New Zealand.
Juana Berinstein et al.
5.The Midwife as Social Connector
Lorna Davies et al.
6.Sustained by joy: The potential of flow experience for midwives and mothers and the blocking of that flow
Mavis Kirkham
7.Sustained by compassion
Sheena Byrom et al.
8.Career or life cycle: The phenomenon of transitioning work-setting within Midwifery in order to remain personally and professionally sustainable
Melanie Welfare
9.Sustaining Rural Midwives and Rural Communities
Mary Kensington et al.
10.Good housekeeping in sustainable midwifery practice
Ruth Martis
11.A values-based approach to sustainability literacy in a bachelor of midwifery programme.
Lorna Davies et al.
12.The pregnant environment
Jean Rankin
13.The birthing environment: a sustainable approach
Carolyn Hastie
14.Antenatal education: sustaining healthy families
Mary Nolan
15.Climate action and infant feeding
Carol Bartle
16.'Good mothers' in the age of finance
Shanti Daellenbach et al.
Biography
Lorna Davies is Academic Manager, Department of Healthcare Practice at Ara Institute of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Rea Daellenbach is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Midwifery programme at Ara Institute of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Mary Kensington is a Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of Midwifery at Ara Institute of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
"The importance this book has for illuminating the broad context of midwifery care is clear… The discussions of reproductive rights, justice, safe motherhood and the problematising of international economic development show how multifaceted childbirth is." – Dr Ella Caine, The Practising Midwife
