healthy birth & physiological plateaus
Weckend M, McCullough K, Duffield C, Bayes S, Davison C. Physiological plateaus during normal labor and birth: A novel definition. Birth. 2024; 00:0 doi: 10.1111/birt.12843
Weckend M, McCullough K, Duffield C, Bayes S, Davison C. Failure to progress or just normal? A constructivist grounded theory of physiological plateaus during childbirth. Women and Birth. 2023; 37(1): 229-239. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2023.10.003
Weckend M, Davison C. The hidden knowledge of physiological plateaus in childbirth. Australian Midwifery News. Spring Issue 2023; 24-26.
Weckend MJ. Physiological plateaus during childbirth: A constructivist grounded theory and novel definition. Doctoral dissertation. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia; 2023. doi: 10.25958/pjpt-g390
Weckend M, Davison C, Bayes S. Physiological plateaus during normal labor and birth: A scoping review of contemporary concepts and definitions. Birth. 2022; 49: 310-328. doi:10.1111/birt.12607
Weckend MJ, Bayes S, Davison C. Exploring concepts and definitions of plateaus during normal labor and birth: A scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis. 2021; 19(3): 644-651. doi:10.11124/JBIES-20-00105
Weckend M. Challenging the norm: Exploring the evidence for physiological plateaus during birth. Australian Midwifery News. Summer Issue 2021; 30-31.
Weckend MJ, Downe S, Balaam MC, Lengler L, deWall S, Gehling H, Grylka-Baeschlin S, Gross MM. Health and maternity care in transition: What do women report about deficiencies and potential in Germany? – the Babies Born Better User Survey [Gesundheitsversorgung und Geburtshilfe im Umbruch: Was berichten Frauen über Defizite und Potenziale in Deutschland? – Die Babies Born Better User Survey]. Z Hebammenwiss [J Midwifery Sci]. 2016; 04(Suppl.1): 34-35. doi:10.3205/16dghwi18
Weckend MJ. Women‘s experiences of maternity care in Germany and Austria: The Babies Born Better User Survey. Masters Thesis. University of Central Lancashire, School of Community Health and Midwifery, Preston, UK; 2015.
refugee & migrant health
Balaam MC, Haith-Cooper M, Pařízková A, Weckend MJ, Fleming V, Roosalu T, Vržina SŠ. A concept analysis of the term migrant women in the context of pregnancy. Int J Nurs Pract. 2017, 23(6). doi: 10.1111/ijn.12600
Weckend MJ. Midwifery care for refugee women and their families [Hebammenhilfe für geflüchtete Frauen und Ihre Familien]. Circular [Rundbrief] of the network Women/Girls and Health in Lower Saxony [Netzwerk Frauen/Mädchen und Gesundheit Niedersachsen]. 2017, 39: 21-26.
Weckend MJ. Medical and psycho-social support for refugee women and children [Gesundheitliche und psychosoziale Hilfen bei geflüchteten Frauen und Kindern]. Series [Schriftenreihe] of the foundation Eine Chance für Kinder. 2016, 14: 12-15.
Weckend MJ. Reflections of a midwife in a German refugee camp. The Practicing Midwife. 2016: 16(10).
midwifery education
Buchanan K, Velandia M, Weckend M, Bayes S. Learning objectives of cultural immersion programs: A scoping review. Nurse Educ Today. 2021; 100: 104832. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104832
Weckend MJ. Midwifery in Germany: Practice, Education and Transition for Newly Qualified Midwives. In: Gray M, Kitson-Reynolds E, Cummins A (eds) Starting Life as a Midwife: An International Review of Transition from Student to Practitioner. 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International. 107-122. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-93852-3_6
preterm birth prevention
Weckend MJ, Spineli LM, Grylka-Baeschlin S, Gross MM. Association between increased antenatal vaginal pH and preterm birth rate: A systematic review. J Perinat Med. 2019, 47(2): 142-151. doi: 10.1515/jpm-2018-0097
Gross MM, Weckend M, Spineli L. Association between increased antenatal vaginal pH and preterm birth rate: A systematic review. Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol 2017; 221(S 01): E1-E113. doi:10.1055/s-0037-1607779
Weckend MJ, Grylka-Baeschlin S, Ruescher N, Spineli L, Gross MM. Association between increased versus normal antenatal vaginal pH and preterm birth: Protocol for a systematic review. PROSPERO 2016: CRD42016042377
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