Acorn Midwives Community Birth and Wellness Center serves Southern California and is located in Fallbrook, California between San Diego and Los Angeles.
Respectful maternity care forms the foundation of maternity services; however, delivery of dignified, efficient, and effective care in these settings remains inconsistent. Research has identified several factors that influence respectful maternity care.
women are assisted in making a birth plan, and their beliefs and expectations are considered, but the women are, however, given information on the care being provided to them and are made to understand at their level that certain laws need to be followed. (...
Berkely, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press; 2009. 2. de Jonge A, de Vries R, Lagro-Janssen AL, Malata A, Declercq E, Downe S, Hutton EK. The importance of evaluating primary midwifery care for improving the health of women and infants. Front Med (Lausanne). 2015;2...
On average, 10 to 12 nurse-midwives graduated from the UCSF master's program each year over the past decade, Bole said. California's remaining master's program in nurse-midwifery is at California State University in Fullerton, south of Los Angeles, and it graduated eight nurse-midwives last ...
The perspective and experience of midwives related to obstetric violence have been explored in low and middle-income countries, with limited research into the experience of midwives in high income nations. Aim To explore Australian midwives’ perspectives of obstetric violence. Methods Thematic analysis ...
The author and Project Runway judge had found herself unexpectedly pregnant after a cross-country move to Los Angeles and was feeling isolated. On many days, she couldn’t get out of bed because of debilitating pelvic pain caused by a condition called symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) that ...
Midwifery plays a vital role in the quality of care as well as rapid and sustained reductions in maternal and newborn mortality. Like most other sub-Saharan African countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo experiences shortages and inequitable distrib
2014, Los Angeles: Sage Google Scholar Pre-publication history The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/14/236/prepub Download references Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Clinical Midwifery Consultants...
In Germany, midwives are involved in extensive antenatal and postnatal care. As health professionals, they can play a key role in strengthening health literacy (HL) of parents on how to prevent chronic allergic diseases in their children. The objective of this study is to explore midwives’ pers...