Speaker: Imelda Fitzgerald
Facilitator: Linda Wylie and Dwi Tampubolon(Shadow)
Abstract:
Childbirth is a unique experience for women. In Ireland, Major Obstetric Haemorrhage (MOH) is the most frequently reported severe maternal morbidity (SMM) with an incidence of 3.27 per 1,000 maternities. Much is known now about the management of PPH and there is some research on women and their partner’s experience, less is known about how the woman feels emotionally following a PPH, or what informational needs and emotional support is required. The aim of this study was to understand how women felt after experiencing a severe PPH, to listen to their first-hand experience and learn what improvements could be made for future care for women who experience a PPH. A descriptive, quantitative approach was conducted using semi structured interviews with women who had a severe PPH of 2.5 litres or above within four and fourteen months postpartum. five women took part in this study. The women identified a lack of information provided to them about the reason for the significant bleed. The women voiced they could overhear information about the event discussed between health care professionals but not with the woman. The care the women received in the HDU was significantly different to the care they received on the postnatal wards, and the women were not informed they were clinically well for transfer to the postnatal ward. It was reported the postnatal wards were busy and short staffed and the women looked for more emotional support from staff, which was not available, this had an effect on the postnatal wards.
Recording: https://youtu.be/6hvN0HJaZXw
Speaker:Jennifer Moffitt
Facilitator: Caitlin Goodwin
Abstract:
Bringing the practices of mindfulness to our patients and ourselves can significantly impact our patients’ relationship to pain and fear in labor, birth, and life. In this presentation, participants will have an opportunity to experience a mindfulness practice and learn ways to implement mindfulness in midwifery, including for childbirth and parenting. Participants will be exposed to how mindfulness meditation can decrease stress during pregnancy and beyond and hear about mindfulness skills for working through pain and fear in childbirth. Further, participants will learn how to encourage mindfulness life skills for parenting with wisdom, kindness, and connection from the moments of birth, as well as how mindfulness skills may be implemented as a way to disrupt intergenerational patterns of suffering. In particular, this presentation will offer concrete ways to bring mindfulness to the contractions of labor, and to the space in between the contractions of labor. The potential for separating “pain” from “suffering” using mindfulness practices will be explored, which can be applied to labor, and of course, to life. We will examine the research around mindfulness-based interventions, the relationship between perinatal stress and outcomes, and the potential that mindfulness strategies have for reducing health disparities.
Recording: https://youtu.be/9VIUNKd_WoY
