September 2022

Editorial Board

Abstract Title Page

Clinical midwifery placement: Undergraduate student's experiences with novice and expert preceptors

• Mrs Katrina (Kate) Thomas,
• Doctor Ladan Yeganeh,
• Ms Joanne Vlahovich,
• Doctor Suzanne Willey

Taking Midwifery to the Top and Beyond: PNG Midwifery Rural Care Practicum Experience

• Ms Cherolyn Polomon,
• PAU Bachelor of Midwifery Students,
• Ms Rachel Smith

Nepalese nursing students’ experiences of witnessing disrespectful and abusive care towards women during labour and childbirth

• Ms Prativa Dhakal,
• Debra Creedy,
• Jenny Gamble,
• Elizabeth Newnham

What women want for the next birth: a content analysis on the wishes for future pregnancy in a national Australia survey (BESt)

• Ms Risharda Lockwood,
• Hazel Keedle,
• Hannah Dahlen

Midwives: Let’s talk about sex and reproductive health

• Zoe Bradfield,
• Kirsty Officer,
• Emily Mignacca,
• Courtney Barnes,
• Janice Butt,
• Yvonne Hauck

“Do you want another baby after this?”: How midwives discuss contraception with pregnant and postpartum women

• Melanie Tulloch,
• Jessica Botfield,
• Hannah Contziu,
• ...
• Sarah Wright,
• Kevin McGeechan,
• Kirsten Black

Who is responsible for postpartum contraception advice and provision? The perspective of hospital-based maternity clinicians in NSW, Australia

• Jessica Botfield,
• Melanie Tulloch,
• Hannah Contziu,
• ...
• Sarah Wright,
• Kevin McGeechan,
• Kirsten Black

Providing unplanned pregnancy care and Early Medical Abortion to marginalised groups at the Kirketon Road Centre (KRC) - a walk in targeted primary health care service in Kings Cross, Sydney

• Ms Katrina Molloy,
• Lucy Cho,
• Mr Edmund Silins,
• Phillip Read

A review of post-dates induction of labour research: a critical discourse analysis

• Ms Beth Shorter,
• Elizabeth Newnham,
• Jyai Allen

“A way to bring my labour back to normal”: An immersive sensory experience during childbirth

• Miss Mariann Hadland,
• Sari Holland,
• Rhonda Taylor,
• Wendy Smyth,
• Cate Nagle

Informed decisions in the third stage of labour – midwives experiences through the lens of portraiture

• Ms Joy Kloester,
• Suzanne Willey,
• Gabrielle Brand

Re-defining Antenatal Care - development and implementation of IMAP in a Large Tertiary Referral Maternity Service

• Mrs Nicole Bennett,
• Ms Jennifer Haxton

Keeping Rural Maternity Services a top priority: a case review of transitioning to a midwifery-led model of care

• Mrs Olivia Tierney

Findings from a Qualitative Survey in the Asia-Pacific Region on Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) and Maternal Health Service Disruptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020–2021

• Ms Kara Blackburn,
• Ms Rachel Smith,
• Caroline Homer,
• Ms Catherine Breen Kamkong,
• Animesh Biswas

A Vision for Women

• Ms Donna Garland

Multiple birth mental health outcomes throughout pregnancy, delivery and postnatally

• Nicole Highet,
• Mrs Julia McCarthy,
• Mrs Fiona Lally

Introduction of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy at the booking visit and the midwives’ perspective

• Kate Cheney,
• Kirsten Black,
• Ms Marilena Pelosi,
• Edwina Dorney

Creative Arts Intervention in Support of Women Experiencing a High-Risk Pregnancy

• Ms Helena Anolak

Introduction of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy at the booking visit

• Kirsten Black,
• Edwina Dorney,
• Ms Marilena Pelosi,
• Mr Saleem Khan,
• Kate Cheney

Engagement in health services among expectant and new fathers: Qualitative findings from a cross sectional study

• Vanessa Watkins,
• Karen Wynter,
• Shane Kavanagh,
• Sarah Hosking,
• Jacqui Macdonald

Two versus four sterile water injections for managing back pain in labour

• Nigel Lee,
• Mrs Bernadette Leiser,
• Ms Yvonne Halter-Wehrli,
• Lena B Mårtensson,
• Yu Gao,
• Sue Kildea

Benchmarking nitrous oxide use in maternity care: Clinical audit and consumer perspectives

• Zoe Bradfield,
• Courtney Barnes,
• Emily Mignacca,
• Megan Couper,
• Monique Rose

Planning for caesarean: supporting woman-centred care through a formal birth plan

• Zoe Bradfield,
• Courtney Barnes,
• Emily Mignacca,
• Kirsty Officer,
• Kelly Mabbott

Midwives' experiences administering sterile water injections for back pain during labour: a qualitative study

• Virginia Stulz,
• Elaine Burns,
• Athena Sheehan

Irrevocably connected to Australia and Australian midwives, and running on the proverbial smell of an oily rag, this low-resource Kenyan Birth Centre consistently shows remarkable outcomes. Here is its story

• Ms Vicki Chan

Reducing Infant Mortality in Queensland: the impact of the Pēpi-Pod® Program

• Jeanine Young,
• Julie McEniery,
• Diane Cruice,
• John MD Thompson

Ten years of a publicly funded homebirth in Victoria: maternal and neonatal outcomes

• Linda Sweet,
• Karen Wynter,
• Ms Katherine O'Driscoll,
• ...
• Ms Margaret Sommeling,
• Ms Rachel Kolar,
• Glyn Teale

Perinatal outcomes of socially disadvantaged women in Victoria, Australia: A population-based retrospective cohort study of 1,188,872 singleton births 1999-2016

• Mrs Fiona Faulks,
• Helen McLachlan,
• Touran Shafiei,
• ...
• Ingrid Mogren,
• Beverley Copnell,
• Kristina Edvardsson

Contemporary Maternity Research Priorities for the Nation’s Biggest Health Service: Results of a Delphi Study

• Ms Kate Reynolds,
• Zoe Bradfield,
• Ms Tarryn Sharp

Barriers and enablers for midwives to use the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives

• Ms Paula Medway

Maternity Connect: An evaluation of a professional upskilling education program for rural midwives and nurses

• Mrs Kylie Martin,
• Mrs Sue Sweeney,
• Karen Wynter,
• Sara Holton

The state of the midwifery workforce in Victoria – a population-based cross-sectional study of maternity managers and midwives

• Ms Robyn Matthews,
• Della Forster,
• Ms Rebecca Hyde,
• ...
• Touran Shafiei,
• Fleur Llewelyn,
• Meabh Cullinane

Accountability, Advocacy and Autonomy: the top intentions for midwifery student learning in the Continuity of Care Experience

• Mrs Olivia Tierney,
• Linda Sweet,
• Leigh Kinsman,
• Vidanka Vasilevski

"Learning to learn": Commencing midwifery students' experiences of self-determined learning in an undergraduate midwifery program

• Ms. Jennifer Eustace

Clinical outcomes for women participating in continuity of care experiences with pre-registration midwifery students

• Ms Nikki Tickle,
• Jenny Gamble,
• Emeritus Debra Creedy,
• Amanda Carter

I believe… philosophies and wishes of Victorian midwifery students moving into practice

• Kate Dawson,
• Heather Wallace,
• Sara Bayes

“I think we should pull together as a team”- Together on the path to the top: Interdisciplinary collaboration in partnership with women on long-term health after hypertensive disorder of pregnancy

• Heike Roth,
• Ms Veronica Morcos,
• Lynne Roberts,
• Mrs Lisa Hanley,
• Amanda Henry,
• Caroline Homer

Labouring Together: Clinicians’ Experiences of “Working Together To Get The Best Outcomes” in Maternity Care

• Vanessa Watkins,
• Cate Nagle,
• Bridie Kent,
• Maryann Street,
• Alfred Deakin Alison Hutchinson

Womens experiences on their infant feeding during COVID-19

• Miss Marie Matriano,
• Rowena Ivers,
• Shahla Meedya

Labouring Together: Women’s Experiences of “Getting the Care that I Want and Need” in Maternity Care

• Vanessa Watkins,
• Cate Nagle,
• Bridie Kent,
• Maryann Street,
• Alfred Deakin Alison Hutchinson

The PNG Midwifery Leadership Buddy Program; bringing midwives together

• Helen Hall,
• Kim Crawford,
• Mrs Mary Sitaing,
• Mrs Jennifer Pyakalyia,
• Afzal Mahmood,
• Ms Paula Nerlyn

Identifying outcomes for vasa praevia that are important for women: a qualitative study to inform a Core Outcome Set

• Nasrin Javid,
• Natasha Donnolley,
• Ms Rachel Dadouch,
• John Kingdom,
• Rohan D'Souza

Manual rotation in labour: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Hala Phipps

Togs on or Togs off? Perineal outcomes for women who birth in water compared to women who do not

• Ms Sari Holland,
• Cate Nagle,
• OAM Wendy Smythe

Is the partogram still relevant? Findings of a randomised trial comparing two partogram designs for monitoring active labour progress in low risk women

• Nigel Lee,
• Julie Flynn,
• Yu Gao,
• Sue Kildea

If you build it - they will come: Innovative approaches to Graduate recruitment, retention and development

• Ms Jodie Atkinson

Together we can co-design perinatal interprofessional psychosocial education for maternity clinicians

• Ms Louise Everitt

Midwives and maternity vaccination programs: critical learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic

• Zoe Bradfield,
• Karen Wynter,
• Yvonne Hauck,
• ...
• Vidanka Vasilevski,
• Lesley Kuliukas,
• Caroline Homer