Analyzing Woman-Centred Care: The Role and Impact of Midwifery

This essay delves into the concept of woman-centred care, emphasizing the crucial role of midwives in supporting women's autonomy and well-being throughout the childbirth continuum. It highlights the importance of addressing the emotional, social, spiritual, physical, and cultural needs of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. The essay discusses how midwives provide essential care, education, and support, ensuring better physical and mental health outcomes for both mother and child. It also explores the significance of the midwife-woman relationship and the need for informed discussions to promote health and well-being, ultimately advocating for the integration of midwifery care to enhance maternal and child health practices.

Academic Paper Woman
Centred Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Women centred care refers to supporting women autonomy. This is the one which also to
take care of the women with recent childbirth. This is the type of care that help in the approach
by recognising emotional, social, spiritual, physical and cultural needs. There is the art of
women-centred care which can help women throughout the continuum. In this, there is various
need of women which should be fulfilled. To this, there is the availability of midwifery who can
take care of all the responsibilities regarding the better health of the women. In this, there is a
discussion about the importance of the midwifery role. There is also discussion about the how
and why midwife's role is integral for providing better and effective midwifery care (Crecious,
(2018)).
MAIN BODY
After childbirth, there is a need for a midwife who can help women to perform various
necessary activities where they need the help of a midwife. In this art of Midwife is to provide
different care which can help pregnant women to perform various activities and take care of their
health. The art of midwives allows to focus on the healthy child and should not any type of
misconduct that can impact the normal process of childbirth. They are the one who has the
responsibility of the pregnant women and their health. There is a need to focus on the delivery of
better and effective physical and mental health (Swan, (2017)).
There is a philosophy that there is a belief about the value of women's work. Getting
pregnant, early parenting and childbirth is the precious event of any women which they don't like
any type of fault that can impact their health or any damage related to life. These are the
important event along with society. They are the one who protects the health and social status of
the women that can lead to protect and enhance the social health and well-being (Phelan,
(2020)).
There is a need to make better relationships with women and her midwife. The art of
women-centred care allows the midwife to take care of the women during pregnancy. There is a
need to focus on the aspiration, expectation and health needs of women. This can allow focusing
on the delivery of better and effective care of pregnant women during pregnancy and after
childbirth, there is also the need help of a midwife to perform the various activity and care for
newborn babies. It is an art of a midwife to take care of pregnant women, childbirth and the early

week of childbirth that allows focusing on healthcare and well-being. They are allowed to make
informed discussions that can help women and newborn babies and her family regarding health.
This is the one that can focus on the delivery of better and effective care and should have a focus
on health and well-being (McKinnon, (2018)).
There is a need to focus on the delivery of care where the art of women-centred care
allows the midwife to take care of pregnant women from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, labour and
childbirth. They also require to seek care in the early week of birth. There is a need for
midwifery care that offers a combination of prevention and support. There is a need for
compassionate care for the women along with their families. They also achieve the strength of
women's capabilities and in the normal processes of pregnancy, post-partum, birth and
breastfeeding (Wentworth, (2020)). They have the experience while their training, they have
work with doctors, community, nurses and public health workers. They should ensure that
women, her child along with her family should receive the right care at the correct time. They
have the information about the right way to take care of the newborn baby. They should take care
of the child by helping the mother and her family by providing care instruction and about the
medication which should be focused on the good health of the individual. Art of women-centred
care allows taking care of each activity which allows regarding better practices and performing
every activity. This allows to focus on the better and effective care of pregnant women and after
childbirth (Bardosono, (2018)).
There is also an impact on the process of intervention for the better care and health of
pregnant women or new birth children. There is a need to get better care from midwives
throughout the childbirth continuum. This allows performing all the activities which should be
good for the child or not. This can have an impact on the child development regarding either
their physical or mental health. They have enough potential to provide better care and education
to the women and the family member which can help to develop better care and practices which
should enable to focus on care, better health and their well-being (Murphy, (2019)).
There is the art of Midwives to care for the women during pregnancy, childbirth and early
parenting years. They educate child-mother about the healthy lifestyle choices that can help to
achieve good health which should be positively effective for the baby. During pregnancy, many
practices imply for a better impact of the individual (Korneta, (2021)). There is a need to full fill
the social, physical, spiritual and emotional and cultural needs. This allows to focus on good

practice and perform various activities which can focus on the delivery of better care. Many
activities are required for the better health of pregnant women and her baby. There is also a
requirement to educate their do's and dont's to take care of the proper child development which
can have an impact on his physical or mental health (Golden, (2018)).
During pregnancy, pre-pregnancy, childbirth and the early week of childbirth can have
high importance where midwives should focus on the care and health of an individual. Many
activities need to perform in daily life where some activities can create problems and impact on
the mother health. For this, there is a need to take care of all the activities in presence of
midwives who are professional and have all the information about the activity which can create a
negative impact on pregnant women and their baby health and well-being (Boudreau, (2019)).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is high importance of midwives
in taking care of pregnant women and the afterbirth continuum. There is a high need for
midwives to take care of pregnant women and new birth children and early weeks of childbirth.
It is important to take care of all the activities which are performed by women during pregnancy
that can allow taking care of child and mother for better health and well-being. There are
discussions about why and how midwives are necessary for pregnant women.

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