Women and Birth

Article	Citations
Agency in change: Learning experiences of international midwifery students in South Australia	148
Utilising the RISE Framework to implement birthing services for First Nations families	115
Midwifery in Abu Dhabi: A descriptive survey of midwives	80
Effect of alternatively designed hospital birthing rooms on the rate of vaginal births: Multicentre randomised controlled trial Be-Up	60
Midwife led randomised controlled trials in Australia and New Zealand: A scoping review	59
Listening to First Nations women’s voices, hearing requests for continuity of carer, trusted knowledge and family involvement: A qualitative study in urban Darwin	58
“I felt like I had no options”: Navigating an ultrasound prediction of a large baby in pregnancy	57
2021 Reviewer Acknowledgement	57
Editorial Board	57
Understanding preconception health in Australia through the lens of people of reproductive age: Implications for care providers	49
Pathways, development needs, and clinical connections for midwifery faculty in low- and middle-income settings of the Asia Pacific region: A qualitative study.	48
Intrapartum hydration assessment and management: A cross-sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand maternity units	45
Job satisfaction and sustainability of midwives working in caseload models of care: An integrative literature review	42
Barriers and enablers to antenatal care attendance for women referred to social work services in a Victorian regional hospital: A qualitative descriptive study	40
A mixed methods evaluation of Multiple Mini Interviews for entry into the Bachelor of Midwifery	37
Barriers and facilitators for implementation of OptiBreech collaborative care: A qualitative study as part of an implementation process evaluation	37
Nepalese nursing students’ experiences of witnessing disrespectful and abusive care towards women during labour and childbirth	36
Contraception provision in the postpartum period: Knowledge, views and practices of midwives	36
Midwives: Let’s talk about sex and reproductive health	33
Re-defining Antenatal Care - development and implementation of IMAP in a Large Tertiary Referral Maternity Service	33
A review of post-dates induction of labour research: a critical discourse analysis	33
Together we can co-design perinatal interprofessional psychosocial education for maternity clinicians	32
Perinatal outcomes of socially disadvantaged women in Victoria, Australia: A population-based retrospective cohort study of 1,188,872 singleton births 1999-2016	32
Barriers and enablers for midwives to use the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives	32
Telephone triage in midwifery practice: a mixed methods study	31

The Ngarrama Story: insights across the first 10 years of a midwifery service for First Nations women and families	30
Maternal, perinatal and newborn outcomes among women enrolled into the WANTAIM trial, Papua New Guinea	29
Translating midwifery continuity of care models in regional NSW: Women and maternity staff experiences of implementing a new service	28
Barriers and enablers for antenatal care access of women engaged with social work services in the Geelong North region	25
Experiences of First Nations women responding to life stressors who access perinatal care at Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs): An Integrative Literature Review	25
Exploring women’s experiences of gestational breast cancer and their interactions with the health care system: a scoping review	25
A novel survey of midwifery expertise in facilitating nitrous oxide use	24
Protecting the Pelvic Floor During Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum: Putting Physiology in Practice	24
Our Baby-Friendly Journey	23
Best practice care after perinatal loss and subsequent pregnancy care: A workshop for midwives	23
Virtual Reality (VR) in the clinical maternity setting	23
Multi-professional and organisational perspectives of barriers and facilitators related to birthing pool use	23
What were we thinking? Impact and experiences of changes in access to maternity health care during pregnancy, findings from the Covid-19: Outcomes for Sleep, and Maternity care a global pregnancy Stud	21
When I can be my whole authentic self, I feel safe and know that I belong: A photovoice study exploring equity-oriented pregnancy care from the perspectives of Karen women of refugee background in Vic	20
What other factors impact labour progress?	19
An Exploration of Risk Factors for Severe Postpartum Haemorrhage in “Normal” Vaginal Births at Two Melbourne Hospitals 2013-2022	19
Changing care for parents in subsequent pregnancies following stillbirth or neonatal death in Australia: Exploring support for optimising psychosocial wellbeing outcomes	19
What works and why? A manager’s retrospective examination of 16 years of MGP at Australia’s largest maternity service	19
Editorial Board	18
Examining the transformation of midwifery education in Australia to inform future directions: an integrative literature review	18
Negotiating the system: Women’s experiences of antenatal exclusion from publicly-funded homebirth	18
Abstract Title Page	18
A critical reflective ‘together at the top’ conversation: Engaging with social media. Are these the change agents of the future to disseminate practice knowledge and research findings amongst health p	18
The power of midwifery stories to assist change	17
Implementing midwifery continuity of care for women having a First Nations baby in three Victorian maternity services: clinical outcomes	17
Fingers in the Dam: Plugging gaps in the midwifery workforce, concerns for safety, accountability, and responsibility	17
Changing the intention: enhancing the Continuity of Care Experience educational model for students	17
Creating change with families: Reflections and recommendations for the care of gender diverse and LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families throughout pregnancy and birth	17
First do no harm: a single site pre-post implementation study of a perineal protection bundle	17
Answer to the letter to the Editor of Women and Birth	16
‘It was horrible to watch, horrible to be a part of’: Midwives’ perspectives of obstetric violence	16
How prospective trial registration can prevent selective outcome reporting and salami slicing?	16
The relationship between birthing related factors and maternal breastfeeding confidence in China	16
The next chapter of Women and Birth	16
Midwives perceptions: Birth unit environment and the implementation of best intrapartum care practices	16
A global overview of midwives’ working conditions: A rapid review of literature on positive practice environment	16
Mothers’ perspectives on the potential use of video-calling during early labour in the United Kingdom and Italy: A qualitative study	16
Women’s views and experiences of a new Midwifery Group Practice model in rural Australia	16
Factors associated with spontaneous vaginal birth in nulliparous women: A descriptive systematic review	15
Exploring the healthcare needs and experiences of pregnant women with congenital heart disease: A qualitative study	15
A global review of the inferred meaning of woman centred care within midwifery professional standards	15
The outbreak of coronavirus disease in China: Risk perceptions, knowledge, and information sources among prenatal and postnatal women	15
The financial impact of offering publicly funded homebirths: A population-based microsimulation in Queensland, Australia	15
Women’s experiences of Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) and of attending a dedicated multi-disciplinary hydration clinic	15
Enhanced Antenatal Care: Combining one-to-one and group Antenatal Care models to increase childbirth education and address childbirth fear	15
Midwifery group practice workforce in Australia: A cross-sectional survey of midwives and managers	15
Indicators of ‘good’ feeding, breastfeeding latch, and feeding experiences among healthy women with healthy infants: A qualitative pathway analysis using Grounded Theory	14
A meta-synthesis of the perspectives and experiences of healthcare professionals on the humanisation of childbirth using a meta-ethnographic approach	14
Publicly available Australian hospital data on infant feeding: A review and comparative analysis of outcomes	14
Perinatal psychosocial assessment of women of refugee background	14

Comparing the views of caseload midwives working with First Nations families in an all-risk, culturally responsive model with midwives working in standard caseload models, using a cross-sectional surv	14
Professional identity: Students’ learning from the attributes and behaviours of midwives on clinical placement	14
Midwives’ perceptions of the performance- and transition into practice of newly qualified midwives, a focus group study	14
Implementing midwifery services in public tertiary medical college hospitals in Bangladesh: A longitudinal study	14
A phenomenological exploration of parenting after birth trauma: Mothers perceptions of the first year	14
Endorsed midwife prescribing in Australia: “[For] the women, more than anything”	14
An exploration of midwives’ role in the promotion and provision of antenatal influenza immunisation: A mixed methods inquiry	14
Early labour experience questionnaire: Translation and cultural adaptation into German	14
Women's experiences with breastfeeding in public: An integrative review	13
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for publicly-funded homebirth in Australia: A scoping review	13
Advanced midwifery practice: A scoping review	13
Review of online breastfeeding information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	13
The BLOSSoM study: Burnout after perinatal LOSS in Midwifery. Results of a nation-wide investigation in Italy	13
Moral distress in midwifery practice: A Delphi study	13
Capturing parents’ and health professionals’ experiences of stillbirth bereavement photography: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	13
Midwifery and nursing honours programs in Australia and New Zealand: A scoping review of contemporary challenges and opportunities	13
Factors influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s breastfeeding practice: A scoping narrative review	13
Towards a conceptualisation of woman centred care — A global review of professional standards	13
Relationships are the key to a successful publicly funded homebirth program, a qualitative study	13
Strengthening midwifery in response to global climate change to protect maternal and newborn health	13
Prenatal education program decreases postpartum depression and increases maternal confidence: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study in urban Japan	13
“You’re a ‘high-risk’ customer”: A qualitative study of women’s experiences of receiving information from health professionals regarding health problems or complications in pregnancy	13
Navigating uncertainty alone: A grounded theory analysis of women’s psycho-social experiences of pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic in London	12
Chilean midwives' experiences while providing induced abortion care after the enactment of a law decriminalising abortion	12
Spontaneous vaginal birth following induction with intravenous oxytocin: Three oxytocic regimes to minimise blood loss post birth	12
Large gaps in the quality of healthcare experienced by Swedish mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study based on WHO standards	12
Clinical outcomes and financial estimates for women attending the largest private midwifery service in Australia compared to national data: a retrospective cohort study	12
Editorial Board	12
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal mental health in Spain: Positive and negative outcomes	12
Association between expressed breast milk feeding and breastfeeding duration in Hong Kong mothers	12
Sustainability of rural Victorian maternity services: ‘We can work together’	12
Letter to the Editor for “A pre-post implementation study of a care bundle to reduce perineal trauma in unassisted births conducted by midwives”	12
Knowing your audience: Investigating stillbirth knowledge and perceptions in the general population to inform future public health campaigns	12
Midwives’ self-reported knowledge and skills to assess and promote maternal health literacy: A national cross-sectional survey	12
The influence and meaning of the birth environment for nulliparous women at a hospital-based labour ward in Sweden: An ethnographic study	12
Barriers and enablers in maintaining healthy gestational weight gain: A qualitative study	11
Epidural analgesia during birth and adverse neonatal outcomes: A population-based cohort study	11
Consent during labour and birth as observed by midwifery students: A mixed methods study	11
The magnitude of the problem of obstetric violence and its associated factors: A cross-sectional study	11
Optimising the continuity experiences of student midwives: an integrative review	11
Optimising recovery after perineal trauma: Implementation of an evidence-based patient-centred care and clinical practice guideline	11
Barriers and enablers for midwives to use the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia's Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives	11
Exploring unwarranted clinical variation: The attitudes of midwives and obstetric medical staff regarding induction of labour and planned caesarean section	11
Systematic review on the cost and cost-effectiveness of mHealth interventions supporting women during pregnancy	11
Exploring the impact of healthcare workers communication with women who have experienced stillbirth in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. A grounded theory study	11
Talking testing: Impact of a training intervention on midwives’ antenatal HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C screening practice	11
North-central Nigerian women’s experiences of obstetric fistula risk factors and their perceived treatment services: An Interpretive Description	11
Breastfeeding and emerging motherhood identity: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of first time Chinese Australian mothers’ breastfeeding experiences	11
A cross-sectional survey of the mental health of midwives in Ontario, Canada: Burnout, depression, anxiety, stress, and associated factors	11
The overuse of intrapartum cardiotocography (CTG) for low-risk women: An actor-network theory analysis of data from focus groups	11
Diabetes in pregnancy: Women’s views of care in a multi-ethnic, low socioeconomic population with midwifery continuity-of-care	11
"Learning to learn": Commencing midwifery students' experiences of self-determined learning in an undergraduate midwifery program	11
The needs of women experiencing perinatal loss: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis	11
Midwives’ experiences of providing maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia	11
The needs and experiences of women with gestational diabetes mellitus from minority ethnic backgrounds in high-income nations: A systematic integrative review	11
Financial hardship and Australian midwifery students: A scoping review and thematic analysis	11
Communication and shared decision-making after stillbirth: Results of the ShaDeS study	11
Exploring South Asian women’s perspectives and experiences of maternity care services: A qualitative evidence synthesis	11
Outcomes and perspectives of woman-newborn dyads following discharge from a quaternary maternity service in Australia: A cross-sectional survey	10
Creative Arts Intervention in Support of Women Experiencing a High-Risk Pregnancy	10
Breastfeeding in the pandemic: A qualitative analysis of breastfeeding experiences among mothers from Canada and the United Kingdom	10
Using women’s experiences of positive support from maternity clinicians to inform the future of midwifery care	10
Online practical neonatal resuscitation assessments of midwifery students in regional and remote areas of Western Australia	10
Impact of COVID-19 on breastfeeding intention and behaviour among postpartum women in five countries	10
Subversive acts and everyday midwifery: Feminism in content and context	10
Design, development and usability testing of Essential Coaching for Every Mother: A postnatal text message educational intervention	10
Untangling the knots with Clinical Supervision	10
Midwives' Views and Experiences of the Impact of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication During Childbirth	10
The experiences of pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: A qualitative study	10
“Safe, connected, supported in a complex system.” Exploring the views of women who had a First Nations baby at one of three maternity services offering culturally tailored continuity of midwife care i	10
Working with Indigenous Nations to co-Design Stillbirth awareness for prevention resources (WINDS) project	10
"Unleashing Midwifery Leaders: The North West Maternity Services Transition Project"	10
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes: My Midwives compared to Australian National Data	9
Whose lane is this? The role of the caseload midwife in complex care	9
Moving Midwifery Group Practice Forward	9
Moving midwifery forward: Improving access to water immersion for labour and birth	9
Midwifery Student Peer Debriefing Tool: students supporting students through difficult experiences	9
The effect of motivational interviewing and/ or cognitive behaviour therapy techniques on gestational weight gain – a systematic review and meta‑analysis	9
Midwives on the move - A future career pathway gem	9
Practice what you preach - Midwifery@Griffith Meta-Values in Action	9

A mixed-methods evaluation of the ‘ForWhen’ national navigation program for perinatal and infant mental health	9
Endorsed Midwife Prescribing in Australia: A Qualitative Study	9
Understanding factors influencing team functionality at operative vaginal birth through multidisciplinary perspectives	9
Supporting midwifery student experience: a NSW Health collaborative approach, to move us forward	8
Endorsed Midwives: Unleashing scope potential in hospitals	8
Hospital to Home Program - providing support to rural and remote families who have experienced the loss of a baby or infant	8
Introducing the Barometer of Moral Distress in Midwifery to determine levels of moral distress in Australian midwives	8
Midwifery student engagement with digital interactive books: A cross sectional survey	8
The Taylor Technique - Exploring outcomes for women having perineal acupressure on the acupuncture point Conception Vessel 1 (CV1) during the active second stage of labour: A pilot non-randomised quas	8
Communication in Maternity Care: Navigating with The Birth Map	8
Tending to the machine: the impact of intrapartum fetal monitoring on women and birthing people in Australia	8
Respectful maternity care in the Top End of the Northern Territory: a cross-sectional study	8
Working in smaller teams in community midwifery practices to foster continuity of carer: Midwives’ experiences – A qualitative study in the Netherlands	8
Larger bodied women's experiences of maternity care: a national photo-voice study [RADIANT Study]	8
Practical strategies to recreate safe and sacred birthing spaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families	8
The PRIMROSE Project: What is ‘Physiological Birth’? A Qualitative Approach to the Perceptions of the Australian Population using Interpretive Hermeneutic Phenomenology	8
Moving Preventive Health in Midwifery Forward: Starting the stopping talk	8
Moving midwifery forward through implementing midwifery antenatal and postnatal services	8
A clinical audit of data examining the impact of Carbetocin in comparison to Oxytocin on post-partum haemorrhage rates	8
It takes a virtual village: Childbearing women's experience of a closed Facebook support group for mothers	7
A complex and demanding situation – Midwifery preceptors and midwifery students’ experiences of teaching and learning prevention of severe perineal trauma	7
Who is at risk of burnout? A cross-sectional survey of midwives in a tertiary maternity hospital in Melbourne, Australia	7
The comparison of the interpersonal action component of woman-centred care reported by healthy pregnant women in different sized practices in the Netherlands: A cross-sectional study	7
COVID-19 Special Issue – The Impact of COVID-19 on women, babies, midwives, and midwifery care	7
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth satisfaction in a prospective cohort of 2,341 U.S. women	7
Exploring women’s experiences in a midwifery continuity of care model following a traumatic birth	7
Understanding childbirth pain in Brazilian women: A qualitative descriptive study	7
Midwives’ and women’s experiences with respectful maternity care around the globe: A meta-synthesis	7
Advocating for midwives in low-to-middle income countries in the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Increasing levels of burnout in Swedish midwives – A ten-year comparative study	7
A mixed-methods stress audit with midwives in the United Kingdom	7
Midwives’ readiness for midwife-led care: a mixed-methods study	7
Editorial Board	7
Factors associated with breastfeeding initiation and maintenance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia: A systematic review and narrative analysis.	7
Midwifery-led care in South Australia: Looking back to move forward	7
How does place impact intrapartum practice for midwives and obstetricians?	7
Language used to describe the Australian midwifery workforce: A change opportunity to improve professional identity	7
Midwives’ and registered nurses’ role and scope of practice in acute early pregnancy care settings in Australia: A qualitative descriptive study	7
Coronavirus testing in women attending antenatal care	6
Primary postpartum haemorrhage adversely impacts breastfeeding initiation in Victoria, Australia	6
Experiences of and visions for collaboration between midwives and nurses in Nova Scotia	6
Editorial Board	6
Estimating the impact of change in pre-pregnancy body mass index on development of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: An Australian population-based cohort	6
Continuity or team-teaching approach for midwifery education? An exploratory qualitative study of student and academic preferences	6
Editorial Board	6
Corrigendum to “Strengthening midwifery education through clinical experience: Findings from a qualitative study in Indonesia” [Women Birth 35 (2022) 87–95]	6
Wanting to be ‘with woman’, not with machine: Midwives’ experiences of caring for women being continuously monitored in labour	6
Comparing compliance with commencement and use of two partograph designs for women in active labour: A randomised controlled trial	6
The impact of planning for COVID-19 on private practising midwives in Australia	6
Women’s experiences of birth trauma: A scoping review	6
Australian women’s experiences of wearing a non-invasive fetal electrocardiography (NIFECG) device during labour	6
The effect of antenatal pelvic floor muscle exercise on sexual function and labour and birth outcomes: A randomised controlled trial	6
‘A perfect fit’ – Swedish midwives’ interest in continuity models of midwifery care	6
Navigating infant feeding supports after migration: Perspectives of Arabic and Chinese mothers and health professionals in Australia	6
Building positive respectful midwifery relationships: An analysis of women’s experiences of continuity of midwifery care in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Project20: Maternity care mechanisms that improve (or exacerbate) health inequalities. A realist evaluation	6
Women who experience feelings of aversion while breastfeeding: A meta-ethnographic review	6
Women’s experiences of their involvement around care decisions during a subsequent pregnancy after a previous caesarean birth in Western Australia	6
“Paper, face-to-face and on my mobile please”: A survey of women’s preferred methods of receiving antenatal education	6
Editorial Board	6
UNFPA supporting midwives at the heart of the COVID-19 response	6
Does it happen and why? Lived and shared experiences of mistreatment and respectful care during childbirth among maternal health providers in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria	5
‘It requires something drastic’: Interviews with health care leaders about organisational responses to social disadvantage	5
Culturally responsive, trauma-informed, continuity of care(r) toolkits: A scoping review	5
Birth environments for women with complex pregnancies: A mixed-methods systematic review	5
Midwives at the centre of preterm birth prevention	5
Group Clinical Supervision - its tops!	5
The relationship between vitamin D supplementation before 24 weeks gestation and risk of preeclampsia	5
Exploring disability identification within public maternity services in Australia	5
Evaluation of the implementation of the Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS) in an Australian maternity service	5
Barriers to and facilitators for addressing overweight and obesity before conception: A qualitative study	5
Psychosocial interprofessional perinatal education: Design and evaluation of an interprofessional learning experience to improve students’ collaboration skills in perinatal mental health	5
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands maternity care responses to COVID-19: A comparative study	5
Trends and characteristics of women undergoing induction of labour in a tertiary hospital setting: A cross-sectional study	5
Women’s perceptions of inclusion and exclusion criteria for publicly-funded homebirth — A survey	5
A mobile application for early labour support -feasibility pilot study	5
Editorial Board	5
How to 'Be the Change': A workshop on implementing Midwifery Continuity of Care Models	5
Bullying in the Australian and New Zealand Midwifery Workforce: A Scoping Review	5
Let's examine the evidence for Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Surgical Treatment	5
Midwifery and Obstetric Emergency Telehealth Service across Country WA aims to improve patient access, outcomes and staff retention	5
Massage and Maternal Anxiety (MAMA) study; a pilot study	5
Experiences with obstetric violence among healthcare professionals and students in Spain: A constructivist grounded theory study	5
A survey of Australian midwives: Experts in nitrous oxide administration within the peripartum setting	5
A historical narrative of the development of midwifery education in Indonesia	5
Analysis of the social acceptability of a humanized childbirth intervention in Senegal: A qualitative study	5
Evaluating the implementation of the Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS) in Australia	5
Shared decision making and timing of birth: An education program for midwives	5
Changin’ it up: shining the light on what it means to be informed in maternity care	5
Breastfeeding Bootcamp Workshop	5
POPN (Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN): A new era in streamlining antenatal care through digital pathways	5
Us, together- Co-creating a Mentoring in Midwifery Program in NSW	5
InterPregnancy Interval Planning after caesarean section. The PIP study	5
Vaginal birth after caesarean section before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Factors associated with successful vaginal birth	5
Shining the light on surgical birth during the antenatal period. Caesarean section is a possibility in every pregnancy but how do pregnant people learn about the risks and benefits beforehand?	5