Volume 18 (2019)

“This isn’t a high-risk body”: Reframing Risk and Reducing Weight Stigma in Midwifery Practice

 

Katie M. Cook, MA, Andrea LaMarre, PhD, Carla Rice, PhD, and May Friedman, PhD

 

ABSTRACT

This article investigates the standards of care for fat recipients of midwifery care through a lens that questions common risk-focused narratives related to fat pregnant bodies. Throughout this article, we use the term "fat" rather than "obese" or...

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Midwives and Medwives: An Analysis of Technology Use among Canadian Midwives

Kathleen E. Zenith, Kathi Wilson, BA, BHSc, MSc, RM

 

STUDENT ARTICLE

The dichotomy of a midwife and 'medwife' underlies a deeper issue regarding the professional identity of midwifery in relation to legislation, integration, and the increasing expansion of clinical scope, in contrast to the “natural birth” movement.

 

 

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New Approaches to Brief Intervention on Substance Use During Pregnancy

 

Tasnim Nathoo, MSc, MSW, RSW, Lindsay Wolfson, MPH, Karen Gelb, MA, and Nancy Poole, PhD

 

ABSTRACT

In Canada, the context for providing brief intervention on substance use during pregnancy is shifting with new opportunities for enhancing discussion of alcohol and other substances, due to the introduction of novel nicotine delivery products (e.g., vaping),...

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Early Life Exposures and the Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome: A Review

 

Jenifer Li, MSc; Sara E. Dizzell, MSc; Sara L. Jones, BHSc; Sarah Kanji, MSc; Jennifer T. Lau, PhD; Andrea Mousseau, MD; Efrah I. Yousuf, BSc; Alison C. Holloway, PhD; Elyanne M. Ratcliffe, MD; Jennifer C. Stearns, PhD; Katherine Morrison, MD; and Eileen K. Hutton, PhD

 

ABSTRACT

The influence of the intestinal microbiota on metabolic, nutritional, and immunological processes...

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A Qualitative Exploration of Past Family Planning Counselling of Adolescent and Young Mothers

 

Katherine Gerster, BSc, MD, FRCSC, Beth Murray-Davis, BA, BHSc, MA, PhD, Ebernella Shirin Dason, BSc, MD, and Dustin Costescu, BSc, MD, FRCSC

 

ABSTRACT

Objective: This study explores the family planning counselling that adolescents receive during pregnancy care, with the aim of identifying those factors that make counselling effective or ineffective.

Methods: The study population consisted of ten...

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