Speaker: Divya Raghavan
Facilitator(s): Rizka Ayu Setyani & Mutiari Safitri(shadow)
Abstract:
Midwives play a pivotal role in providing comprehensive support to women navigating the challenges of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). This abstract outlines key aspects of midwife support in this context. Emotional support is fundamental, with midwives fostering open communication and offering empathetic counseling to address the emotional toll of RPL. Education and information dissemination involve explaining medical procedures, test results, and providing insights into lifestyle factors affecting pregnancy. Care coordination is crucial, emphasizing collaboration with healthcare professionals to ensure well-rounded, personalized care. Midwives engage in proactive preconception care, assessing health factors and developing tailored plans for subsequent pregnancies. Support groups, facilitated by midwives, create spaces for women to share experiences and access community resources. Advocacy is integral, empowering women to actively participate in their care and collaborating with healthcare providers for comprehensive support. Continuity of care is established through building strong relationships, fostering trust, and providing ongoing support throughout the reproductive journey. Taking a holistic approach, midwives address both physical and emotional needs, recognizing the interconnected nature of well-being. Ultimately, by embracing these multifaceted roles, midwives contribute significantly to enhancing the overall care and resilience of women facing recurrent pregnancy loss.
Recording: https://youtu.be/7Gn5Xt0T4sE
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
