News & Views How much autonomy do women actually have when giving birth? Women giving birth have the right to make informed decisions about their care, refuse unwanted interventions and be treated with respect.
News & Views What drives women to have a ‘freebirth’ without a midwife or doctor? Here’s what the research says Many women carefully consider the risks of ‘freebirth’ but often consider things such as unwanted intervention and birth trauma as a risk in itself that they find unacceptable.
News & Views How Australia’s first majority-women government is honouring the movement that made it possible Jenny McAllister recently delivered a speech reflecting on the role women played in shaping Australia’s labour movement.
News & Views Too many healthy women are having their labour induced for no identified medical reason, our study shows Induction of labour can be life-saving in some situations. But women are increasingly induced for non-medical reasons, and earlier in their pregnancies.
Advice We need to talk about man pain The weekend before giving birth to my first child, I was in the audience of a hypnotist show.
