Midwifery Partnership Model: Un modello teorico per la pratica ostetrica

Who better than a w oman cares about the health of their child. W ho better than a Midw ife recognizes and has confidence in this Value. The dominant ideology of the birth of the last years (medicalization and dis-empowerment of woman) queries all of midwives, which care model for midwifery practices should be adopted to re-activate the "emancipatory force and equal relationships in maternity services ". At the dominant ideology of childbirth as a medically assisted surgery, midwives for years offering the childbirth event as a family and social biological event, while ensuring timely intervention and competent in case of sudden appearance of risk factors for the mother and the newborn. This statement requires an important reflection, professional and individual, in so far as the Italian situation does not find its full application. The writers, in an effort to make concrete and feasible the declaration described above and in an attempt to support midwives in the application areas of obstetrics and gynecology and neonatal Sciences, offering to colleagues the reading of "Midwifery Model Partnership" published by Guilliland and to Pairman early 90s in New Zealand. The proposal to Midwives colleagues located right by virtue of obstetrical training and direct access to the restatement of the scientific-disciplinary sector likewise have lived the authors of the model about 20 years ago.