REFLECTIONS By Sian Hannagan Sep 2015 On August 31 the New Zealand College of Midwives took a courageous move to sue our Ministry of Health for Pay Equality. Their case, led by Mai Chen argues that pay levels for midwives breach gender rules under the New Zealand Bill...
REFLECTIONS By Sian Hannagan May 2015 Writing the editorial for me has been a hard one this week, there is so much to talk about and so few answers to any of it. Do I talk about how Australia continues to take steps in making sure Home Birth is no longer a choice for...
Suffrage to Birth. By Sian Hannagan Sep 2017 Today marks the 124th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, it is also 27 years since the Nurses Amendment Act was passed (28 August 1990) These two things may not seem related, but they are very much a part of the same picture,...
By Sian Hannagan Our Editorial. Mar 2015 Here in Aotearoa, we have the enviable situation of having a world class midwifery system that is often held up globally as a superb model of Continuity of Care in birth. The New Zealand maternity system has a robust framework...
By Sian Hannagan Our Editorial. Mar 2016 As Autumn folds away summer and we move into longer nights, we take this magazine issue to reflect on more challenging aspects of birth, including loss and trauma. There are some heavy going articles in this issue and you may...
By Sian Hannagan Our Editorial. Jun 2016 We need to stop using birth as a metric for pain. A few years ago, I had a wisdom tooth out, during the healing process I got dry socket, a complication with healing that can be painful. I couldn’t really speak or eat properly...
