The network aims to provide students, teachers, tutor exchange, curriculum development activities, and projects within midwifery care and development.
The Healthy Birth Project (2024-2027) is based on the Normal Birth Project (2018-2023). A total of 145 midwives were interviewed by 35 midwifery students in the Nordic and Baltic countries (10 institutions in 7 countries). Our findings suggested a robust professional identity among midwives and prompted a re-evaluation of the term “normal birth,” leading us to advocate for the term “healthy birth.” The overall aim of the Healthy Birth Project is twofold: to explore midwifery students’ thoughts about what they consider a healthy birth, how they define a healthy birth, and how they work to promote and protect physiological birth processes; and to explore perspectives of women and families on what constitutes a healthy birth for them and how they define it. Additionally, the study aims to investigate families’ expectations from healthcare providers in safeguarding a healthy birth and physiological birth processes, their experiences of care during labor and birth, and the measures they take to prepare for the birth process.
The aim of the Normal Birth Project is to give a overall picture and a better understanding of what Nordic midwives consider a normal birth to be with the goal of promoting and supporting normal birth. The project also helps students to develop their knowledge of the global situation in relation to childbirth and the impact on Nordic midwifery.
Network Meetings
All educating partners will participate in the meeting as active partners within the network to share and decide how to allocate mobility funding and plan the joint course. The public hospital partners will attend the meeting which is essential as they bring real clinical situations to discussions and support with practical views on theoretical questions and be a part of new development within the network as well as be a part of mobility. This will strengthen Nordic-Baltic collaboration in midwifery education, sharing and developing evidence-based midwifery practices, and understanding the differences and similarities in the maternity services in collaborating countries.
Mobility
Exchange students apply for mobility according to their priorities and with mutual agreement between partner institutions.
Network Meetings
All educating partners will participate in the meeting as active partners within the network to share and decide how to allocate mobility funding and plan the joint course. The public hospital partners will attend the meeting which is essential as they bring real clinical situations to discussions and support with practical views on theoretical questions and be a part of new development within the network as well as be a part of mobility. This will strengthen Nordic-Baltic collaboration in midwifery education, sharing and developing evidence-based midwifery practices, and understanding the differences and similarities in the maternity services in collaborating countries.
Mobility
Exchange students apply for mobility according to their priorities and with mutual agreement between partner institutions.
Midwife of the North 