During the course of 2017 GynZone will be arranging a number of Development Days on suture techniques, workshops and the use of e-learning. These days are held in collaboration with Scandinavian midwifery schools, organisations and hospitals.
Attendance is free for 1-2 persons from all institutions with a multi-user license.
This offer is mainly intended for the licence administrator/educational manager.
The first Development Day (in Danish) will be Wednesday 8 March in Copenhagen.
We are planning several Development Days in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Please see more info here. In Norway and Sweden, the days will be held in English or Danish according to the wishes of the participants.
For free participation please sign up by e-mail at info@gynzone.dk
Access to the module Surgical Skills is presupposed. If your workplace does not have access to this module, we will find a solution.
Other participants may sign up at our webshop. The price is 2000 DKK + 25% VAT.
Suture after home births
Chopping boards, roasting pans, dinner tables, nursing pillows and birth stools -
all these items were suggested in a discussion thread in our Facebook group as improvised work equipment for diagnostics and the suture of birth lacerations in the aftermath of a home birth. Peggy Seehafer sent this picture of a super handy set of portable stirrups used by her midwife colleagues in Hamburg, Germany:
The original question regarding home births and suture was sent to us by mail from a midwife in Winnipeg, Canada. Her e-mail was forwarded to experts on home births and the question was posted on Facebook. Here, we got a lot of imaginative suggestions as well as a reminder that you may have to transfer the woman to a hospital to ensure optimal treatment of a severe laceration.
Article on diagnostics and suture by GynZone's German associate Peggy Seehafer in the December issue of the Midwifery Journal Die Hebamme.
The article follows up on Peggy Seehafer's talk to 1200 participants at a midwifery congress in Mainz, Germany on 18 November 2016.
News in brief from home and abroad
Birth picture series from 2016
See it on the Huffingtonpost website.
New WHO Director-General in 2017 6 clear-cut questions from Women Deliver to the candidates (2 women,
4 men) about their visions on women's health and rights to health care.
Your sex is prettier than you think A lovely little film on how women react to seeing a snapshot of their sex - and what happens afterwards when they see their partner's reaction.
