Continuity of Carer Before, During and After Childbirth

Continuity of Carer Before, During and After Childbirth

1. Health professional's role

   • Provide woman-centred care
     • Cultural safety
   • Gain trust, build relationship
     • Empower women, give choices and info
     • Increase likelihood of woman acting on advice
   • Increase Quality of Provider Interactions? QPI
     • Prevent birth trauma
   • Define continuity of carer

2. Outcomes

   • Pregnancy
     • Improve access
   • Labour
     • Pain relief? Lower epidural rates
     • Chatecholemines, feeling of safety
     • Lower intervention rate
   • Postnatal
     • Mental health
       • Postnatal depression
   • Reduce maternal stress levels
     • Explain how/why this occurs

3. Benefits

   • Maternal experience
   • Safer care as women are known to carer
   • Increase normal processes of birth
   • Reduce inequality
   • Effective care

4. Risk level of pregnancy?

   • Improve safety and outcomes for high risk

5. link outcomes to model

6. Evidence based practice

   • Larger scale research/consensus

7. Discuss limitations of paper, focus on most important aspects

8. Model of care - caseload

   • research individual needs