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Midwifery Partnership: Individualism, Contractualism or Feminist Praxis?

Abstract:

I have looked after Moana through two pregnancies and am currently looking after her for the third time. Moana is young, Maori and poor. through her first pregnancy she was a street kid and heavily into glue and alcohol. She delivered prematurely and the baby went to relatives. The next baby was stillborn. Her third pregnancy was my first contact with her. She was off the streets but was a heavy drug and alcohol user. She was almost impossible to find: making appointments didn't work. She was morose, uncooperative and uninterested. One visit in particular I remember clearly was on a beautiful sunny morning. She was at home but so were a group of her friends. They were all drunk and stoned. I did not stay long. She delivered the next day at 32 weeks. An aunt took the baby. On my one postnatal visit to her she told me to "f... off out of my life". "Once Were Warriors" looked like a picnic.

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biculturism, midwifery partnership model, political, philosophical and social change, young, Maori women