What sustains midwifery practice and how resilience is a quality required in practice have begun being researched.
Models of care that focus on relationships have been shown to be beneficial to mothers, families and midwives.
This paper explores and critiques the notions of sustainability and resilience as applied to midwifery.
This paper begins to examine the notions of resilience and sustainability across very different models of midwifery care.
Four main qualities/themes that traverse two models of midwifery care are identified and discussed: Love, passion and joy of midwifery, self-care, self-determination and relationships sustain.