Resources for clinicians in maternity care

Interpreters Slide

Culturally adapted resources

Safer pregnancy information co-designed with Arabic, Dari, Dinka and Karen-speaking communities to watch, listen and read.

Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Clinical Practice Guideline

Available for all healthcare professionals in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to promote best practice around the time a baby dies.

Casand Slide

Indigenous resources

Website, flyers and videos – co-designed with First Nations women to reduce the risk of Sorry Business Baby (stillbirth).

eLearning & Resources for Maternity Healthcare Professionals

Education and resources dedicated to preventing stillbirth and improving health and social outcomes for women.

For maternity healthcare professionals on this site

Stronger Bubba Born – Introduction Video

eLearning

Safer Baby Bundle eLearning course *NEW* (updated August 2024)
Safer Baby Bundle eLearning course *NEW* (updated August 2024)
The Safer Baby Bundle module provides evidence based information for maternity health care providers on the 5 elements of the bundle: Smoking Cessation, Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR), Decreased Fetal Movements (DFM), Side Sleeping and Timing of Birth. This eLearning course has been updated in August 2024 to align with most recent evidence and updated resources.
IMPROVE eLearning course
IMPROVE eLearning course
This course consists of six modules and is designs to support maternity healthcare professionals in responding to women who have experience stillbirth, and gain crucial learnings. Each module takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and provide essential training for obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, nurses, general practitioners and antennal staff.
Stronger Bubba Born Healthy Yarning Guide
Stronger Bubba Born Healthy Yarning Guide
On completion of this eLearning course, health professionals should be able to recognise and understand the disparity in Indigenous stillbirth rates compared to non-Indigenous stillbirth rates, have a better understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health, and recognise the importance of culturally safe care in health to improve care and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and communities.
Partnering with families of refugee & migrant backgrounds
Partnering with families of refugee & migrant backgrounds
This course builds upon the established Safer Baby Bundle learning course to provide additional support to health professionals working with women and families of refugee and migrant backgrounds during pregnancy. Modules include practical guidance on how families would like to have conversations about stillbirth prevention, skills for working well with interpreters, and opportunities to strengthen culturally safe and trauma responsive approaches to pregnancy care. The course includes a total of 5 self-paced learning modules, each taking approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Safer Baby Bundle: professional development for interpreters
Safer Baby Bundle: professional development for interpreters
This training package is designed to support interpreters working in diverse pregnancy care settings across Australia. Modules include information about the design and delivery of maternity care in Australia, common tests and investigations offered during pregnancy, approaches to stillbirth prevention, and interpreter wellbeing and self-care. The package includes a total of 6 self-paced learning modules, each taking approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

Resources & clinical guides

The Stillbirth CRE has developed a suite of parent resources, including translated and culturally adapted resources, and number of resources for clinicians to guide clinical care based on best practice evidence. These are available to download at no cost.

Events

Join us on Wednesday, 30 October from 4:30pm to 7:00pm (AEST) to connect and learn together, to improve pregnancy care and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and families across Australia.

The webinar aims to give attendees a better understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health, and to recognise the importance of culturally safe care.

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Thanks to our partners

Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, is the coordinating centre of the Stillbirth CRE.

The Safer Baby Bundle has been developed by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE) in collaboration with support from over 25 partner organisations. See our partners here.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land and their ongoing custodianship. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country.
We acknowledge the diversity across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, language and practices and that it is vital that all health care services respectfully manage protocol and provide a culturally positive health care experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Western Pacific Regional Office of the International Stillbirth Alliance
Coordinating Centre, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Alliance, Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand

Level 3, Aubigny Place
Mater Research Institute
Raymond Terrace,
South Brisbane QLD 4101
The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine

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