03: Women’s experiences of different care providers — Pt 2 — an interview with Dr Hazel Keedle

Birth Choices

In part 2 of our mini-series on care provider choices we speak with Dr Hazel Keedle, lead researcher on Australia's largest survey on women's experiences of maternity care, the Birth Experience Study (BESt). We discuss the findings explored in a few key papers emanating from the responses of 8,804 women to that survey, including key findings around “what women want if they were to have another baby”, as well as the strengths and and limitations of different maternity models of care accessed by women in Australia in the preceding 5 years.
Links:

• Keedle, H., Lockwood, R., Keedle, W., Susic, D., & Dahlen, H. G. (2023). What women want if they were to have another baby: the Australian Birth Experience Study (BESt) cross-sectional national survey. BMJ Open, 13(9), e071582–e071582. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071582
• Pelak, H., Dahlen, H. G., & Keedle, H. (2023). A content analysis of women’s experiences of different models of maternity care: the Birth Experience Study (BESt). BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), 864–864. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-06130-2
• The Conversation — More than 6,000 women told us what they wanted for their next pregnancy and birth. Here’s what they said
• Hazel’s book — Birth After Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth (which we covered with Hazel in a different episode to be released in the coming weeks)

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