Passionate about?

Hmmm...

Normality of birth and women's right to choose place of birth.

Particularly primaparous/multiparous women wanting home birth.

I would like antenatal education improved to ensure the majority of healthy women recieve midwifery-led care in a midwifery-led unit or at home. Our home birth rate in this area is a pathetic 2%. In others (such as Cornwall) it is as high as 18%, I think this is too low.

Too many women receive too much unneccessary intervention and belevie these interventions are acceptable, as after all mother and baby are ok. They must have access to evidence-based information, witha realsitic approach. Not simply talked into epidurals, syntocinon augmentation, directed pushing, managed third stage etc...

CTG's are used to babysit women as midwives have two or three labouring women at a time to look after, too many. One-to-one care is impossible.

25% of women receive epidural analgesia in labour, this is affecting the high rate of instrumental/ caesarean births and these figures are on the rise. Despite evidence to suggest the interpretation of CTG traces is flawed, and have little relevance to birth outcomes, they are overused.

Poor care, I am most passionate about this. Whilst I believe the midwifery model is simply not workable with the shortage of midwives. The medical model is unfortunately the current and probable future replacement. Leaving the women and their families the poorest losers.

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