A study of 170 Turkish couples who had experienced a normal birth found that 68% of women wanted partner support during delivery. But among those who rated their experience of …
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These photos have been published by UNICEF for their 2018 Fathers Day campaign, focusing on paternity leave. This is what the fathers said to the photographer. It is the most …
A study has examined the failure of Sri Lanka’s 2011 National Strategic Plan for Maternal and Newborn Health to allow women to have birth companions. The researchers, who were themselves …
A study of 140 couples has shown that depressive symptoms in a father during pregnancy and a negative subjective birth experience were independently predictive of depressive symptoms and acute stress …
Projects to promote rights to high quality maternal care typically overlook families (international)
A systematic review of programmes to promote the rights of women to high quality maternal health services has revealed only a small minority of projects that regard the family as …
A small Ugandan study, involving interviews with 16 fathers who had been at the birth of their babies, has concluded that if women’s partners are at the birth, they need …
Since 2013 the Burnet Institute has implemented the Healthy Mothers, Health Babies project that seeks to improve maternal and child health in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. As well …
Comment piece, Duncan Fisher OBE, co-founder, The Family Initiative UNICEF has launched a global campaign to focus attention on the importance of early childhood development (ECD). Pia Britto, UNICEF’s Chief …
A newly published paper by Dr Holly Rominov (School of Psychology, Australian Catholic University) reports on a survey of 106 Australian midwives about how they engage with fathers and what …
The WHO Standards for Improving the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Health Facilities state that healthcare provision “must take into account the preferences and aspirations of individual women …