Assessment of occupational hazards in midwifery setting and impact of occupational stress and job satisfaction on midwives’ quality of work-life: multicenter study in IRAN by Nasibeh Sharifi, Azita Fathnezhad-Kazemi, Nazanin Rezaei, Masoumeh Yaralizadeh, Zahra PourMohammad

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Effectiveness of the Modified WHO Labour Care Guide to Detect Prolonged and Obstructed Labour Among Women Admitted at Eight Publicly Funded, Midwife-Led Community Health Facilities in Rural Mbarara District, Southwestern Uganda: An Ambispective Cohort Study by Mugyenyi GR, Tumuhimbise W, Atukunda EC, Tibaijuka L, Ngonzi J, Kayondo M, Kanyesigye M, Musimenta A, Yarine FT, Byamugisha JK

“…We observed no differences in stillbirths, maternal deaths, postpartum haemorrhage and uterine rupture.Conclusion: Our data shows that LCG diagnosed more cases of prolonged and obstructed labour compared to the partograph among women delivering at rural publicly funded midwife-led facilities in Southwestern Uganda. More controlled and powered studies should evaluate the two tools in different facilities and sub-populations.Trial Registration: This trial registration was registered with clinical trials.gov number NCT05979194 on 2023-08-07, and the protocol was published by BMJ open, as 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079216 on 15 April 2024.21 Trial registration number NCT05979194 clinical trials.gov.Keywords: modified WHO LCG, partograph, effectiveness, labour monitoring, ambispective cohort study, Uganda…”
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Hemşire ve Ebelerin Çocukluk Çağı Otizmi Hakkındaki Bilgileri by Şule Zengin, Selmin Köse

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Hemşire ve Ebelerin Hizmet İçi Eğitim Uygulamalarına Yönelik Görüş ve Beklentilerinin Belirlenmesi by Gülser Şerbetçi, Cemile Savcı, Hacer Özel

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Social aspects of the professionalization of midwives in Luxembourg (1800–1940) by Manon Pinatel

“…To do this, it is necessary to study the administrative organisation of training, recruitment policies and the form and content of the courses involved in the creation of a new health worker: the midwife. This individual often assumed the role of midwife, vaccinator, doctor of the poor or paediatric nurse. …”
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The history of childbirth: Women and doctors in the lying-in hospital of Göttingen University, eighteenth – nineteenth century by Jürgen Schlumbohm

“…Around 1800, in 78 per cent of the cases, the birth attendants were male (medical students and professor Osiander), and only in 22 per cent, the attendants were female (midwife apprentices and the hospital midwife). Furthermore, in every semester, the number of medical students trained at the hospital was five to ten times higher than that of the midwife apprentices. …”
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Performance of Integrated Emergency Surgical Officers at Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Margo S. Harrison, Ephrem Kirub, Tewodros Liyew, Biruk Teshome, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Margaret Muldrow, Teklemariam Yarinbab

“…Women had a higher likelihood of being attended by an IESO than a midwife if they underwent forceps-assisted (RR 88.4, p<0.05), vacuum-assisted (RR 45.2, p<0.05), or cesarean birth (RR 161.8, p<0.05) as compared to an unassisted vaginal birth. …”
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La santé sexuelle et reproductive en Tunisie. Institutions médicales, lois et itinéraires thérapeutiques des femmes après la révolution by Irene Maffi, Malika Affes

“…In this article, written in the form of an interview, Malika Affes, midwife in charge of one of the family planning units of La Rabta Hospital in Tunis, and Irene Maffi, anthropologist, discuss sexual and reproductive health in Tunisia. …”
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„Kdykoliv jsem měla volnou chvilku, něco jsem sepisovala.“ Dílo Justiny Siegemund v kontextu raně novověkých ženských přírodovědných spisů z německojazyčných oblastí... by Hana Jadrná Matějková

“… The study analyses four early modern scientific treatises from the German speaking regions written by women, namely the midwife Justina Siegemund, the astronomer Maria Cunitia, the entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian and the doctor Dorothea Christiana Erxleben. …”
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Preparing for opening night: temporal boundary objects in textually-mediated professional practice by Elisabeth Davies, Pamela J. McKenzie

“…The midwifery clinic setting was investigated by means of interviews and follow-ups with sixteen midwife-client pairs and document analysis of the antenatal record. …”
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Antenatal pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention led by midwives in England to reduce postnatal urinary incontinence: APPEAL feasibility and pilot randomised controlled cluster... by Karla Hemming, Jonathan Bishop, Sarah Dean, Jean Hay-Smith, Tim Coleman, Elizabeth Edwards, Christine MacArthur, Debra Bick, Mark Pearson, Rohini Terry, Eivor Oborn, Sara Webb, Eleni Gkini, Victoria Salmon, Ellie Jones, Helena Frawley

“…Control clusters continued standard care.Outcomes Women reporting: that their midwife explained how to do PFME, PFME adherence and postpartum UI. …”
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The healing hand: the role of women in ancient medicine by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…These sources emphasise the professions of midwife and female doctor. Although there is some overlap between their duties, we find that in Greece a distinction was drawn between maia and iatrikê as early as the 4th century BC, while in Rome the two professions of obstetrix and medica or iatrina were well established by the 1st century BC. …”
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Analysis of village financial management on financial performance with regulatory changes as intervening variables by Harun Blongkod, Herlina Rasjid

“…The population of this research is Village Apparatus who work in the Village Government and based on the sample criteria are the Village Head, Village Secretary, Village Administration Midwife, Village Economic Sector, Treasurer, Head of BPD, Deputy Chairperson of BPD, Secretary of BPD, LPM, Chairperson of Youth Organizations and Head of Dusun /Environment, totaling 107 respondents. …”
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Exploring Professional Support Offered by Midwives during Labour: An Observation and Interview Study by Stina Thorstensson, Anette Ekström, Ingela Lundgren, Elisabeth Hertfelt Wahn

“…The results are presented with three themes. (1) Support as a professional task seems unclear and less well defined than medical controls. (2) Midwives and parents express somewhat different supportive ideas about how to create a sense of security. (3) Partner and midwife interact in support of the childbearing woman. …”
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Self-Reported Nutrition Education Received by Australian Midwives before and after Registration by Jamila Arrish, Heather Yeatman, Moira Williamson

“…Continuing education often occurred through personal initiatives, such as the midwife enrolling in external courses or exploring issues on the Internet and with colleagues. …”
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Risk Factors for Hypertension in Women of Childbearing Age by Natasya Vidia, Betty Yosephin Simanjuntak, Diah Eka Nugraheni

“…The type of hormonal contraception used, age, and blood pressure were obtained by secondary means from the midwife's register book. At the same time, primary door-to-door accepted length of use, education, employment, and number of children. …”
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Midwifery care in The Gambia: A focus group study with clinical midwives, midwifery students, educators and leaders on how barriers and facilitators impact quality midwifery care. by Lamin Suwareh, Helena Lindgren, Kerstin Erlandsson, Haddy Tunkara Bah, Evelina Holm, Majda Meljoum, Omar Manjang, Saineh Sanneh, Baboucarr Cham, Ulrika Byrskog

“…The results are described in generic categories: 1a) national plans and facility-based guidelines, 1b) midwifery education, 1c) becoming a skilled midwife, 2a) scarcity of resources, 2b) encountering community barriers, 2c) midwives - a passionate but demotivated profession, 3a) positive assets for quality midwifery care, 3b) women in leadership as a tool for a motivated midwifery workforce and 3c) teamwork.…”
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Ритуальний простір хатніх пологів: від профанного до сакрального by Олена Боряк

“…The article examines the transformation of the interior space of a hut into a sacred space during traditional childbirth, when a midwife assisted the woman in labor. The extraordinary nature of the event of the birth and the appearance of the baby required a lightning-fast, profound transformation of space. …”
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Immunization Program Implementation as the Effort to Achieve Universal Child Immunization (UCI) by Fikri

“…The data collection method was through in-depth interviews with 3 informants, consisting of the head of the puskesmas, the holder of the immunization program and the implementing midwife. The results showed that the availability of resources was not optimal because the qualifications of officers were not in accordance with existing standards, training was only carried out by immunization program holders and inadequate facilities and infrastructure such as KMS supplies, facilities where immunization was carried out outside the building and the absence of official official vehicles. …”
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Effectiveness of Perineal Massage in the Second Stage of Labor in Preventing Perineal Trauma by Suleyman Cemil Oglak, Mehmet Obut

“…In the case of threatening tears in any patient and at the preference of the midwife, mediolateral episiotomy was performed. Following childbirth, the perineum and vagina were examined for perineal tears and episiotomy by the midwives. …”
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