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Working to strengthen midwifery and improve care for childbearing women, partners & babies. https://t.co/eageGDpfX6
Oct 16, 2021 13 tweets 3 min read
The trouble is of course, that Midwifery is in crisis because maternity care Is insanely medicalised and there aren’t enough Midwives to manage the complexity & drama brought about by over-medicalisation of the natural process. Governments don’t care to provide the continuity of midwifery programs that we know lead to better outcomes – the evidence is in.For some hard to fathom reason, the number of women emerging from Maternity care traumatised and damaged is ignored