Obstetrics

The Palm Cockatoo Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) at Weipa Hospital, Cape York Peninsula, has assisted local women to give birth locally rather than travelling 800 km to Cairns. The group wants to make a culturally safe space so that more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women can give birth in the Western Cape.

Becca Whitehead

Researchers have looked at mothers’ medication use before and during pregnancy to see whether babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART) are more likely to be exposed to potentially teratogenic medicines than non-ART babies.

Anna Kemp-Casey, Roger Hart, Michele Hansen

I set out to write a book about miscarriage but ended up researching topics like pollution’s effect on fertility, medical misogyny, abortion culture and feminism and much more. The result is a book that is changing the status quo for women’s health, but it’s only just getting started.   

Isabelle Oderberg

New federal government funding for miscarriage research and data collection is a welcome and long overdue step forward for the thousands of families impacted by pregnancy loss, writes Isabelle Oderberg.

Isabelle Oderberg

Around the country, private maternity hospitals are closing, with enormous implications for many Australians needing care and for the health system as a whole.

Gino Pecoraro, Caroline de Costa, Steve Robson

With growing recognition that the social and emotional needs of women are not being met in their maternity care, it is vital that we understand the needs of the people who use our maternity care systems.

Kirsten Small, Lachlan Faktor, Sally Cusack, Zoe Bradfield, Chanelle Warton, Caroline Homer

Current knowledge suggests that early exercise intervention for individuals experiencing a pregnancy loss may be a feasible method to reduce the risk of psychological morbidity, while also improving physical wellbeing.

Tegan Hartmann, Danielle Girard

The “baby bust” must be part of Australia’s political agenda, so we can overcome this existential crisis, write Dr Clare Boothroyd, Dr Katharine Bassett and Professor Steve Robson.

Clare Boothroyd, Katharine Bassett, Steve Robson

Despite recent improvements to abortion access in Australia, inequities remain in access to pregnancy termination.

Sam Hunt