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Joanne Farrugia Imbroll ; Josephine Attard | 2022Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2014) states that women with low-risk pregnancies should be offered the opportunity to labour in water. There is a dearth of research investigating the link between the availability of water immersion (WI) in facilities and midwives' knowledge, perceived benefits and concerns, ...
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Lara Caruana ; Josephine Attard | 2021Physical activity during pregnancy provides health benefits to mothers, including improvement of body image satisfaction (Boscaglia et al 2003), reduction in lower back pain (Garshasbi & Faghih Zadeh 2005), prevention of excessive weight gain (Lamina & Agbanusi 2013) and a reduction in the rate of assisted vaginal births and caesarean sections (Barakat et al 2012). The ...
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Christina Zerafa ; Josephine Attard | 2021Opioids help control the pain and stress of labour and are widely used globally in midwifery practice, particularly in developed countries (El-Wahab Robinson 2014). The most-used opioids in labour include fentanyl, diamorphine and pethidine. Each woman in labour will respond in a different way to opioids but there is evidence that, ...
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Bernice Scicluna ; Josephine Attard | 2021According to Trends in maternal mortality (World Health Organization (WHO) 2019), infection remains the second highest cause of maternal mortality, although there has been a drop of 38 per cent worldwide, with 94 per cent of maternal deaths recorded in low- and middle- income countries. As midwives care for pregnant women, for women ...
