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Meeting the needs of Maori women: The challenge for midwifery education

Abstract:

Introduction: During the period that I was educated as a midwife in 1993/4 I began to notice discrepancies between what I was being taught about Māori women as part of my midwifery education and the reality of my personal experience of being Māori. My own pregnancy and birth did not seem to fit the description of Māori women’s experiences being given by teachers or in New Zealand literature about childbirth. I began to question the accuracy of the information and the potential for that information to influence how midwives care for Māori women. These discrepancies were further reinforced when I began to practice [sic] as a registered midwife and was exposed to the many different realities of Māori women in the community.

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cultural safety, knowledge reconstruction, Maori, midwifery education