The public discussion Poland is heat up by the dilemma around unwanted pregnancy and legal measures of its termination. The topic is not new and shows up on public agenda every few years. There is a vast unseen aspect of pregnancy shadowed by this gripping debate. Would it be worth changing the angle for a while? Find our in the below text: https://lnkd.in/d9H3rAFy
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The amazing team at Northcott Innovation have done it again! Thanks to a collaboration with disAbility Maternity Care and Council for Intellectual Disability, NI has launched it's ‘Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual Disability During Pregnancy’ resources suite. ‘Your Pregnancy, Your Choices!’ - Was created through a fully inclusive and accessible co-design process, uniquely shaped to the needs of parents with intellectual disability - Involved parents with lived experience from metropolitan and regional communities - Involved parents with lived experienced from all stages of the parenting journey - Co-created 4 unique resources targeting decision making in pregnancy and childbirth - Co-created a tangible communication tool that supports and empowers parents with intellectual disability to advocate for their rights and choices Check out the supported decision making resources here: https://lnkd.in/dYs2_ZjJ WANT SUPPORT? If your team or business needs support to inclusively co-design products, services or strategies alongside people with disability reach out to the NI team at info@northcottinnovation.com.au
Supported decision making for women with intellectual disability during pregnancy
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"About 10% to 12% of women[1] of childbearing age have a disability and are as likely to want a pregnancy as those without disabilities. People with disabilities have about the same rates of pregnancy compared to people without disabilities but are more likely to experience health inequities and have a greater risk of birth complications and death during pregnancy. There are also barriers that disabled pregnant people experience in their prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. The Centers for Disease Control outlines that a disabled person may experience a lack of physical access to health care equipment and facilities, negative attitudes, stereotypes, and misconceptions about people with disabilities, lack of provider knowledge on their disability, and inaccessible education material, among other barriers. One systematic literature review of studies focusing on the experiences of physically disabled women during childbirth found obstacles like provider inexperience, negative attitudes of medical staff, non-cooperation between health care settings of clinicians, inadequate equipment and facilities, and the absence of a birth plan. To attend to this crisis, a growing group of doulas share information and experiences as disabled doulas and as doulas providing care for pregnant people with disabilities. Metropolitan Doulas, a doula collective, writes about exploring accessibility in the postpartum period, such as exploring options for seating when feeding an infant, tips for using pillows if a new parent lacks mobility in their upper body, and how postpartum doulas can support new parents with disabilities. More research is needed to understand the outcomes of doula care for pregnant people with disabilities and their experiences with doula care."
The Disability Community Deserves Inclusive and Accessible Doula Care
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A new ICES report on equity and inclusion in pregnancy care highlights how many people with disabilities face barriers to accessible care and experience disrespect from health-care providers: https://ow.ly/zA1N50S4FoZ #disability #healthcare #pregnancy
Many disabled and pregnant Ontarians face barriers to accessible care, report finds | CBC News
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🩷ANNOUNCEMENT: LGBTQ+ INCLUSIVE MATERNITY INFORMATION SHEET🩷 . Throughout our own experiences over the last 12 years and our work across Maternity & Neonatal care, we consistently see a lack of understanding for our community. . 🩷Our experiences are often not understood, a lack of representation, and there is in most cases “no space for us”, no “tick box”. We are consistently ‘Othered’, having to write our lives, our trauma and our experiences in the margins between pages, because there is no space for us. . 🩵This then in turn, meant that people in our community often put themselves at risk, coming out at every appointment, & having to explain their identities, families pathways, & family units to professionals who sadly had not been given the training or the tools to support us. . 💜This can lead to erasure, discrimination, confusion, further trauma & impact people’s experiences & leave them feeling unsafe in a system built to support them. . 👏🏽We wanted to CHANGE that.👏🏽 . 💛We wanted to create a tool that meant all LGBTQ+ people could navigate the maternity & neonatal system SAFELY. . 💚So we created the “Proud Foundations Maternity Information Notes”.💚 . 🧡This is a document you can print out and fill in to give to your Midwives and other healthcare professionals to support you. . 🤎It will mean you don’t always have to explain, feel safer, and can concentrate on celebrating your journey. . 💙We have purposely created two different versions. One is colourful, displays our flag, and the other is plain. We’re aware that many people feel unsafe sharing that they are from the community so visually, and for those families, they can have the plain copy. We hope that this document will support our community to be able to access safer and personalised care and celebrate and enjoy their journeys the way they should. 🏳️🌈Link & in Bio link🏳️⚧️ . https://lnkd.in/eRWD9yJv . #lgbt #maternity #pride NHS England NHS Scotland NHS Education for Scotland Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) LGBT Mummies AJ Silver Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG NHS
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Yes, please! 👏👏👏 It is about time! Do you know any women with intellectual disability (ID) who is willing to participate on a project about creating resources that can aid women with ID in making supported decisions during and after pregnancy? If yes, please read the post below for more info. #WomenWithIntellectualDisability #DisabilityAwareness #MaternityCare #Pregnancy
📣 We need your help to share this exciting project 📣 Northcott Innovation and disAbility Maternity Care are working together on a project about supported decisions during and after pregnancy. We are looking for women with intellectual disability (ID) to help us to create resources for women with ID to make supported decisions during and after pregnancy. Participants will be paid for their time. We are also looking to potentially move one of the workshops online, so if you know someone outside of NSW please feel free to share the information and our contact details. Check out our website for more information about the project: https://lnkd.in/d79r-Csw Northcott Innovation and disAbility Maternity Care received a grant from Council for Intellectual Disability to make these resources. The grant is part of a project about supported decision making called My Rights Matter. On a side note, the team at Northcott Innovation and disAbility Maternity Care attended a Supported Decision Making workshop yesterday that was delivered by Council for Intellectual Disability. It was a fantastic workshop that helped us build our supported decision making knowledge and skills to better support people with intellectual disability to make more of their own decisions. I would highly recommend them to all. You can check it out these great workshops here: https://cid.org.au/events/
Supported decision making for women with intellectual disability during pregnancy
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🗣 This week our co-CEO, Janaki Mahadevan, participated in the Labour African Network and GMB Union's panel discussion “Why are Black Women still four times more likely to die during childbirth than their peers?” alongside Cllr. Nicki Adeleke, Anneliese Dodds MP, Davina Brown, and Janet Fyle MBE Dr (H.C). 📣 Speakers all focused on the need for solutions to address the deeply embedded racism that drives the persistent disparities in maternal mortality for Black women and the failure of government to grasp this issue. The panel discussed the need to eradicate the racism and colonial legacy that prevails in training materials for maternity staff, address resourcing, and challenge toxic working environments for healthcare staff, the need to change the narrative and dismantle the racist stereotyping of Black women and the need to embed targets and proper accountability in government and the NHS to close the gap in outcomes and experiences for Black women. ➡ Janaki emphasised that systemic racism - not broken bodies is the main driver behind the disparities and that the most marginalised people who face multiple forms of discrimination and oppression, often face the worst breaches of their rights. The event was a great opportunity to remind the audience that women and birthing people have the right to decide what happens to our bodies and the importance of ensuring that access to exercising our human rights through pregnancy and birth is protected and upheld for everyone. Read our 'Systemic Racism, Not Broken Bodies' inquiry findings here: https://lnkd.in/ePrgjU2S #systemicracism #maternityrights #humanrights #birthrights #racism #humanrightsinchildbirth #pregnancyrights #pregnancy #birth
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Maternity discrimination: do we really know how far reaching it is? The latest research conducted by Pregnant Then Screwed has confirmed that, shockingly, 50% of mothers experience some form of discrimination while pregnant, on maternity leave or on their return to work The figures make for grim reading however, a Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill – is due to come into force later this month, which is designed to protect pregnant women and new parents. Let's hope it's a positive move towards making maternity discrimination at work, a thing of the past. #maternityleave #newparents #maternalmentalhealth #discriminations #parenthood #returntowork #workplacediscrimination
Over half of women face maternity discrimination
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Trans terms like 'chestfeeding' to be banned in NHS under new changes to constitution https://lnkd.in/evSNfxnC Finally a bit of common sense xx 🙏👏🙌
Trans terms like 'chestfeeding' to be banned in NHS under new changes to constitution
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Just a reminder that Pride posts and t-shirts are great but the best way to support your LGBTQ+ employees is by creating a safe & inclusive workplace where they receive equitable benefits and healthcare. This Pride Month, review your policies to make sure they include domestic partner benefits, trans-inclusive healthcare and gender affirmation services, inclusive family formation benefits (such as coverage for adoption, IVF and surrogacy), and parental leave that includes non-biological parents.
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A recent research funded by Columbia University studied the prevalence of mistreatment by healthcare providers towards the new mothers during childbirth. To study about mistreatment, researchers asked 4,598 new mothers across 6 states of Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia plus New York City, whether they were mistreated during the childbirth. The data was then categorized according to type of mistreatment, demographic, and social and clinical characteristics of those experiences. The study titled "Disparities in Mistreatment During Childbirth", revealed that more than one in eight new mothers were mistreated during childbirth in 2020, especially the women who were unmarried, Medicaid insured, identified as LGBTQ, obese, had a history of substance, family violence or mood disorders, as well as those who had an unplanned C-section. "Many of our results suggest that pervasive structural social stigma permeates the birth experience and shapes how care is received," Chen Lui, MS, research associate in Columbia Mailman School's Department of Health Policy and Management, and first author, noted. "For example, we found that LGBTQ-identifying individuals were twice as likely to experience mistreatment, driven by higher rates of feeling forced to accept unwelcome care or being denied wanted treatment. These findings align with prior work demonstrating poorer birth outcomes among sexual minorities," Lui added. Race and ethnicity-wise, the new mothers from South-west Asia, Middle East and North Africa were mistreated the most, followed by multiracial mothers, Black mothers, white mothers, Native American or Alaskan Native mothers, Asian mothers, and Hispanic mothers. read more.....👇 #pregnancymistreatment #mistreatmentbyhealthcareofficials #mistreatmentbyhospitals #mistreatmentduringchildbirth #researchonpregnancy #childbirthstories #childbirthresearch #discriminationresearch
Study Finds New Mothers Are Mistreated During Childbirth
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