The Midwifery team has been busy! This week a publication arising from our project exploring student recruitment experiences and the experiences of Global Ethnic Majority midwifery students'.
Carina Okiki, Giada Giusmin, Jane Carpenter, Louise Hunter (2023) Choosing Midwifery − The perceptions and experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants to midwifery programmes: A mixed methods study. Nurse Education in Practice, Vol 69 103626, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103626
And a toolkit arising from and influenced by our research that the RCM has produced
Research shows that labouring or giving birth in water provides clear benefits for healthy mothers and their babies.
Analysis of research shows that using a birth pool during labour provides “clear benefits” for healthy mums and their newborn, with less intervention and fewer complications during and after the birth than when compared to labouring and giving birth on land. Mothers also report higher levels of satisfaction with their birth experience.
Dr Ethel Burns of Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences led a team of researchers, working with Dr Claire Feeley (Oxford Brookes), Dr Priscilla Hall (Emory University, USA) and Dr Jennifer Vanderlaan (University of Nevada, USA). The research looking at 157,546 sets of mothers and babies was published in the journal BMJ Open.
