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We read Roth et al.’s study regarding how Australian women's magazines portray the postpartum body with interest. The authors conclude that media messages may ‘normalise extreme expectations of the early postpartum body, encouraging readers (mostly women) to think that they are not only meant to, but also must, regain their pre-pregnant weight and shape’ (p. 133). Furthermore, the authors mention that a limitation of their study is that they did not ask postnatal women of their views regarding the magazine stories. It is with this in mind that we would like to share with you some of our recent findings regarding postpartum women's views on celebrity weight loss. As part of a larger longitudinal interview study, we asked 10 women (6 weeks to 10 months post-partum, aged 23–34 years, ...
Conclusion: Non-metropolitan women had fewer birth interventions, particularly epidural analgesia, than metropolitan women. Differences in maternal age and private health insurance do not fully explain the differences in epidural analgesia rates, suggesting care provided to labouring women may differ by area of residence. The difference in epidural analgesia rates may be due to lack of choice in maternity services, however it could also be due to differing expectations leading to differences in birth interventions for primiparous women living in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. (Source: Women and Birth)
In 2009–2010 Maternity Coalition (MC) worked really hard representing Australian women while the Commonwealth established major reforms in maternity care funding. This guest editorial asks the question; why, three years later, do so few Australian women have access to Medicare-funded midwifery? In this editorial I first review the history of the 2009–2010 Commonwealth maternity reforms, before examining the barriers to women's access to care from eligible midwives in private practice. I discuss the nursing and medical cultural forces that inhibit private midwifery practice, obstructing women's choice, control and continuity in birth care. In Queensland leadership from consumers, midwives, the Chief Nurse's office and the Health Minister encourages public maternity units to grant visiti...
