Matricentric or medically responsible: An exploration of midwives’ attitudes towards caring for women and birthing people who choose to birth outside of guidelines

Becky Westbury; Alys Einion

doi:10.55975/ejoz4427

Matricentric or medically responsible: An exploration of midwives’ attitudes towards caring for women and birthing people who choose to birth outside of guidelines

Becky Westbury, Alys Einion

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Abstract

Matricentric care centres around the birthing woman/person and acknowledges the systems and structures that may impact upon them and their experience.1 Choice is embedded into modern maternity care, with multiple human rights legislations supporting an individual’s rights to accept or decline care.2 In practice, birthing people have reported incidences of facing opposition or feeling unsupported in their choices, 3 which has the potential to lead them to pursue other options exposing them to more risk.4 Midwives play an integral role in supporting birth choices and providing respectful maternity care, 5 and as such it is crucial to identify factors affecting this.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8-13
Number of pages	6
Journal	Practising Midwife
Volume	24
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.55975/ejoz4427
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2021

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Maternity and Midwifery

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Matricentric or medically responsible: An exploration of midwives’ attitudes towards caring for women and birthing people who choose to birth outside of guidelines

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