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
Speaker: Yennifer Márquez-Mosquera & Pia Rodriguez Garrido
Facilitator: Susana Ku
Abstract:
Background: Counter-hegemonic practices among midwives as a way to carry out their work from a situated position concerned about socio-cultural changes carries a strong social and political commitment. Reaching this point is not an easy road, hence the importance of knowing and analyzing the counter-hegemonic processes of midwifery and its impact on the profession in Chile. Method: Qualitative design within the paradigm of descolonial feminist epistemologies; theoretical/practical/methodological proposal which works with the body, subjectivity, and the territory. Three body maps were developed by the midwives who also acted as authors of this study, and were analyzed via image analysis. Results: The body maps and their narratives indicate processes, stages, people, and key scenarios which let the midwives learn various counter-hegemonic ways to exercise their profession. These processes were not always linear, and we can also observe a continual questioning of traditional, sometimes violent forms, of carrying out midwifery. Discussion: The emergence of critical reflections around the exercise and tasks of midwifery is a phenomenon which has drawn increasing attention. In this sense, the counter-hegemonic practices of Chilean midwives and the critical reflections from midwives in Europe and the Anglo-Saxion nations have important and necessary encounter points, key elements to move towards a midwifery which is concerned with people and their experiences, with greater meaning and socio-political commitment.
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