Exploring Western Australian Women's experiences of sharing positive birth stories.

Background: Fear can impact childbirth experiences, yet most birth stories women hear portray birth as unfavourable, and women must actively seek out positive birth stories.

Aims And Objectives: We aim to explore how women feel when sharing positive birth stories and the socially constructed motivations for or against sharing.

Research Question: What are the experiences of women who share positive birth stories?

Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach was adopted, adhering to Standards of Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR) guidelines, and underpinned by an interpretivist research philosophy.

Mental health of Australian Aboriginal women during pregnancy: identifying the gaps.

Despite Australia's high standard of health care provision, Australian Aboriginal women continue to experience poor pregnancy outcomes in terms of maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality. In an attempt to improve these outcomes, health care providers have developed targeted antenatal programmes that aim to address identified health behaviours that are known to contribute to poor health during pregnancy. While some areas of improvement have been noted in rates of engagement with health services, the rates of premature births and low birth weight babies continue to be significantly higher than in the non-Aboriginal population.