RESOURCES - Pregnancy, Birth & Early Parenting

CONTEXT
VALUES, BELIEFS AND MORALITY
RESEARCH & INFORMATION
INFORMED CONSENT & SHARED DECISION MAKING
DECLINING RECOMMENDED CARE
​​BUILDING COMMUNITY
​SETTING YOURSELF UP
A RESILIENT AND ADAPTABLE ATTITUDE

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CONTEXT

Most people think that when they access healthcare services that the service is solely there to support them with their needs.

VALUES, BELIEFS AND MORALITY

While we all would like to believe that when a patient sees a care provider, beliefs, emotions and morality don't influence the care provided and the care received, that is not the case. In fact, we would be naive to assume anything less than a complex matrix of underlying structures based in emotion and morality, personal and societal values holding up any social structure, including healthcare and in many cases, science and evidence too. It is important to keep in mind that these are the systems we have to work with (education, economies, government, healthcare, food systems, etc) and that our role is to understand the best possible ways in which we can interact with and benefit from...

As you've learned through the 

Morality is difficult. As Haidt writes on his website, "It binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth. It closes hearts and minds to opponents even as it makes cooperation and decency possible within groups."  - Jonathan Haidt

RESEARCH & INFORMATION

INFORMED CONSENT & SHARED DECISION MAKING

When getting your morning coffee at your local, do you spend any time deciding with another person which coffee you are going to have? Do you share many decisions about things that are very important to you? 
Your body, health and wellbeing both mentally and physically and you sense of 

DECLINING RECOMMENDED CARE

BUILDING COMMUNITY

Parenting doesn't happen in a silo. Even though most of the time it might like and actually be the case

A RESILIENT AND ADAPTABLE ATTITUDE