Marge Foley

Mobile Midwives (eBook, ePUB)

Transforming Birth Options

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mobile Midwives: Transforming Birth Options takes readers on a journey through Marge Foley's far-reaching career as a midwife in Australia. Marge was a senior midwife and hospital maternity unit manager before becoming a director of Mobile Midwives NT in the country's tropical Top End.

During her midwifery career, she supported midwives to create changes in maternity care that would help improve outcomes for mothers and babies. When providing care to women, her goal was to make that birth as easy and joyous as possible.

By sharing both her hospital and home-birth midwifery experience, Marge wishes to inspire midwives to consider a continuity of care service model. The professional insights she has included throughout the book may also provide valuable information to students and practicing midwives.

She hopes the book's stories will inspire pregnant women to actively seek information about birth so that they understand the process. Being fully informed about what to expect will help to make the birth experience more meaningful and increase the likelihood of a joyful birth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Marge Foley
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780645293319
• Artikelnr.: 63205635

Autorenporträt

Marge Foley grew up on a rural property near Ulverstone in North West Tasmania. Her midwifery career has seen her work in diverse locations. She lived in Darwin for nine years where she and three other midwives became directors of a company called Mobile Midwives NT Pty Ltd. She is passionate about increasing the options of care available for pregnant women that will result in women being joyful and satisfied with their birth experience. Her memoir Mobile Midwives: Transforming Birth Options gives readers an insight into her remarkable midwifery journey, which spans over forty years. By sharing her experiences, Marge hopes to influence midwives to bravely step away from their comfort zone and seek employment in services that offer one-to-one midwifery care. The midwifery insights she has included throughout the book may also provide valuable information to students and midwives. She also hopes the stories will inspire pregnant women to actively seek information about birth so that they understand the process. Being fully informed about what to expect will help to make the birth experience more meaningful and provide increased likelihood of a joyful birth.