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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lead Maternity Carer (LMC)"”.
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Women's views on postnatal care from a midwife who has not provided their pregnancy and birth care: Implications for midwifery relationships
… provided in hospital and at home by a known Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) midwife who has provided continuity of care and lead maternity care throughout the childbearing episode. While this model of maternity care is accepted as optimal, increasingly and for a myriad of reasons, postnatal care …
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"There’s a problem with BMI”: An exploration of midwives’ perspectives on the provision of maternity care to women with an increased BMI during pregnancy and childbirth in NZ
… over 95% of women2 choose a midwife as their Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) (Ministry of Health [MOH], 2020) yet research exploring midwives’ perspectives on the provision care to women with increased Body Mass Index (BMI) is limited. The aim for this thesis was to explore ‘the perspectives of …
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Should I stay or should I go? Case-loading midwives’ perceptions of transfer of midwifery care for epidural
New Zealand has a world-leading and unique maternity system. Case-loading midwives known as Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) midwives may care for a woman from pre-conception through to six weeks postnatally. The LMC midwife (or her backup) provides continuity of care in a partnership model throughout …
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An exploration of the maternity experiences of wāhine Māori in their encounters with midwife Lead Maternity Carers
The purpose of this research was to explore the maternity experiences of Māori women to understand the optimal conditions needed to provide women-centred relationships with midwife Lead Maternity Carers (LMC). The research focussed on the pregnancies, birth and motherhood experiences of Māori women …