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Women, The System & Choice
Introduction
Introduction (0:36)
Stage 1. Themes
Jane Hardwicke Collings
Sheryl Sidery
The culture of western maternity care
The culture of blame
The cult of the expert (3:32)
The value of motherhood (0:41)
The place of women in the system (1:54)
Cultural perception of women’s experience of birth (2:40)
Birth as a rite of passage
The inner work of pregnancy (4:47)
Personal growth through birth (4:04)
The value of motherhood in our culture
Tokophobia or fear of childbirth (0:59)
Women's involvement in decision making about their care (1:50)
The structure of the maternity system
The role of insurance as central to maternity care and the concept of ‘women-centred care’ within that system (3:49)
morbidity and mortality in the maternity system (1:19)
Standard maternity care in the system. Conveyer belts, fractured and fragmented (2:08)
The importance of a doula's presence in both public and private maternity care (1:02)
A comparison of birth in and out of the system.
Birth out of hospital - a recent history of independent midwifery (0:51)
Statistics around physiological birth. (1:49)
Undisturbed birth (2:48)
Dr Stuart Fischbein
Interview (46:19)
Sexual and physical assault in birth
Grooming’ women for compliance in birth
Birth violence is normalised (0:44)
Policy and protocol
The bundle
Active labour
Lack of choices in the maternity system
How the system structure limits choices (and the perception of choice) (2:40)
Women being involved in decision making (from the top down) (2:28)
Unassisted Childbirth
Diverse communities
Cultural safety
Refugees, migrant & CALD women
Women with disabilities
Maternity care for indigenous women
LGBTQI families (25:16)
Surrogacy
Conclusion
Last thoughts
Birth out of hospital - a recent history of independent midwifery
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