Speaker: Betsy Arnold-Leahy
Facilitator: Ally Anderson
Abstract:
Occiput Posterior position is a variation of the normal birthing process, a complication of birth requiring patience, intervention, or something in between. Occiput Posterior Position of the fetus is often referred to as “the most common” fetal malposition or as a variation of normal. As many as 30% of fetuses spend some time in this position during labor only 5-12% will remain so for the actual birth. Persistent Occiput Posterior Position may account for up to 18% of cesarean births as well as increased operative births, along with maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Anecdotally, many birthing people are increasingly worried if their fetuses are posterior even at early gestations because of the knowledge available in the media.
Midwives and accoucheurs have encountered this fetal position as documented into the Middle Ages (Louise Bouchard, Jane Sharp). Current data and research and strategies the management of Occiput Posterior position present the intersection of the ART and SCIENCE of midwifery. However most current data is based in Eurocentric literature. Only recently has there been literature from Spain, China, Japan, and Iran to name a few midwives from. Even these studies often reference the primarily English language literature aforementioned in their citations. Very rarely is there an article from a non-Eurocentric area where midwives and traditional birth attendants are prevalent.
This presentation will focus on other perspectives on midwifery management of Occiput Posterior the non-primarily English-speaking voices that are emerging in literature focusing on this topic. The purpose is to highlight what strategies and options are available to those midwives providing care for birthing people particularly in those areas prone to disruptions in care due to conflict and disaster. What can we learn and how can we further support one another?
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Recording: https://youtu.be/3PNmcSoyfHE
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
