Call the student midwife: experiencing home birth.

Lawrie, Andrea; Rennie, Anne Marie

Abstract

Midwives should be competent in caring for women experiencing home birth. Home birth is influenced by exposure during midwifery education. In the UK not all student midwives experience home birth, and this paper discusses the barriers that currently exist to women achieving a home birth, the consequent paucity of opportunities for students to experience home birth and it goes on to make recommendations as to how we can help midwives to feel confident and competent in supporting women to make this choice.

Citation

LAWRIE, A. and RENNIE, A.M. 2016. Call the student midwife: experiencing home birth. The practising midwife [online], 19(9). Available from: https://www.all4maternity.com/call-student-midwife-experiencing-home-birth/

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2016
• Deposit Date: Feb 28, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 28, 2023
• Journal: The Practising Midwife
• Print ISSN: 1461-3123
• Electronic ISSN: 2634-7407
• Publisher: All4Maternity
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 9
• Keywords: Home birth; Midwives; Midwifery
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1783026