{"id":5035,"date":"2024-04-25T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:39:16","slug":"midwifery-the-key-to-woman-centered-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/fall-2022\/midwifery-the-key-to-woman-centered-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwifery: The Key to Woman-Centered Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5036\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-230x345.jpg 230w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-350x525.jpg 350w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unnamed-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As hospitals have become busier in recent years, physician-led labor has replaced midwife-led labor. Today, midwives are only present at 12% of US births (OSHU 2020). With the prioritization of safe medical practices, present-day society has traded woman-centered approaches to childbirth, like midwifery, for more sterile medical approaches (Sandall et al. 2010).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The busy hospital setting in the US allows little time for midwives to fulfill the duties of their jobs, leaving patients without the emotional and physical assistance of a trusted medical professional. How can we simultaneously hold space for medically safe practices while also keeping the mother&#8217;s emotional experience of labor in mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Labor in Hospitals Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Birth can be traumatizing. It is extremely physically demanding and mentally strenuous. Today, hospitals are overwhelmed and have little time to address the mental challenges labor can elicit. In most hospitals today, around 46% of women are left alone during labor (Sehhatie et. al 2014). Many women report feeling scared and abandoned during their labor experiences. This is often because of a lack of patient-physician communication, causing worries about their health and their child\u2019s health (Sehhatie et. al 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Stress during labor can cause muscle contractions, which can increase labor pain. This can, in turn, slow the fetal heart rate and complicate the delivery (Goldenberg and McClure 2011). So, if we prioritize woman-centered care in hospitals and utilize midwifery as a method of providing emotional care to mothers, both the baby and mother will benefit physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Midwives\u2019 Emotional and Physical Care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midwives are certified medical professionals who assist with uncomplicated births. They perform tasks such as monitoring fetal heart rate, assisting with the delivery, and administering drugs (Sehhati et al 2014). However, the most important part of a midwife\u2019s job has traditionally been to provide<em> <\/em>continuity of care to the patient. This means that while doctors may come in and out of the delivery room, the midwife stays beside the mother. The midwife builds rapport with the patient and keeps her updated about her delivery (Sandall, et al 2010).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woman-centered care is a form of care that combines both clinical skills and emotional intelligence on the part of the provider (Towler and Bramall 1986). It emphasizes the physical and emotional presence of the mother as an active and important player in the labor process, rather than passively watching decisions being made about their health around them (Sandall et.al 2010). Although women report midwifery positively impacts their labor experiences, many hospitals today do not implement continuity of care due to the overtaxed hospital setting (Sandall, et al. 2010).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Medicalizing Midwives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hospitals have become overburdened as healthcare has become more privatized (Chang et al 2019). With patients overflowing into the hallways of some US hospitals, there is little time for midwives to implement continuity of care (Chang et al. 2019). On average, midwives only spend about one-fourth of their time assisting women in the delivery room. They are often assigned to multiple patients at a time, making it necessary for them to split their time between rooms (Sehhatie et. al 2014). When midwives aren\u2019t directly interacting with patients, they are often preoccupied with their clinical duties, such as fetal monitoring and paperwork. These duties leave little time for patient-midwife bonding and render continuity of care near impossible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5037\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER-230x122.jpg 230w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER-350x186.jpg 350w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/busy-ER-480x254.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Community Medical Centers, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Future of Midwifery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an increasing emphasis on physical care rather than mental care and increasingly strained hospitals in the US, it is difficult to imagine an optimistic future for midwifery. However, while the percentage of midwife-attended births in the US is still small, it has increased since 2016 (GAO 2023). Additionally, over the past 8 years, the number of official certifications given out for midwifery has increased (GAO 2023). While midwifery may not yet be a widespread practice, there is hope for a future in which midwives have more space in the medical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5038\" style=\"width:432px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM.png 734w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM-230x117.png 230w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM-350x178.png 350w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.49.31-AM-480x245.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: United States Government Accountability Office, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chang, Bernard P., and George Gallos, and Lauren Wasson, and Donald Edmondson. 2019. \u201cThe Unique Environmental Influences of Acute Care Settings on Patient and Physician Well-being: A Call to Action.\u201d <em>The Journal of Emergency Medicine <\/em>54(1):19-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community Medical Centers 2019. &#8220;Should I Go To the Emergency Room, an Urgent Care or My Primary Care Physician?&#8221;. Retrieved April 24, 2024 (https:\/\/www.communitymedical.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/should-i-go-to-the-emergency-room)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goldenberg, Robert L. and Elizabeth M. McClure. 2011. \u201cMaternal Mortality\u201d. <em>American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology <\/em>205(4):293-295.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OHSU Center for Women\u2019s Health. \u201cA Brief History of Midwifery in America.\u201d Oregon: Oregon Health and Science University. Retrieved March 4, 2024. (https:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/womens-health\/brief-history-midwifery-america#:~:text=In%20th e%20early%20parts%20of,United%20States%20births%20in%202020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandall, Jane, Declan Devane, Hora Soltani, Marie Hatem, and Simon Gates. 2010. \u201cImproving Quality and Safety in Maternity Care: The Contribution of Midwife-Led Care\u201d. <em>Journal of Midwifery and Women\u2019s Health<\/em>: 55(3):255-261<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sehhatie, Fahimeh, Maryam Najjarzadeh, Vahid Zamanzadeh, and Alehe Seyyedrasooli. 2014. \u201cThe Effect of Midwifery Continuing Care on Childbirth Outcomes\u201d. <em>Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research.<\/em> 19(3): 233\u2013237.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towler, Jean and Joan Bramall. 1986. <em>Midwives in History and Society<\/em>. Oxfordshire: Taylor and Franscis&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United States Government Accountability Office 2023. \u201cInformation on Births, Workforce, and Midwifery Education\u201d. Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office. Retrieved April 24, 2024 (https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-23-105861.pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hospitals have become busier in recent years, physician-led labor has replaced midwife-led labor. Today, midwives are only present at 12% of US births (OSHU 2020). 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