Yvonne Tier

So I suppose my title is a little bit long, Advanced Midwife Practitioner in Supported Care.

So my role really is I'm a lead care provider for a cohort of women who I work very autonomously with and provide direct care to those women, assess, treat, diagnose, prescribe.

And predominantly, I suppose my main role is overseeing our supported care pathway here in the University Maternity Hospital in Limerick.

So Supported Care Pathway is a pathway of care recommended for women who are considered to be normal risk.

So women who have no real medical, surgical, obstetric complications and a very well pregnancy.

And they then are triaged into care where they have all of their antenatal care delivered by our midwives from Limerick.

So I suppose for me as well, I have an additional caseload where I have a clinic for women who

have had a previous birth by caesarean section.

That's a very specialised clinic offering very individualised specialist care with lots of information, education.

trying to help women to make decisions about their birth choices for their next pregnancy.

Absolutely.

And is that the case?

We're going to break that.

No, it's not.

Absolutely not.

No, you know what?

The idea of a clinic like this, birth after cesarean, is really birth options.

And it's to go through, you know, what can you do in the future and whatever way you came to that clinic, whatever your journey was up until that point and the reasons around why you had a cesarean section the last time.

You know, there is real benefit in exploring that journey and what it means.

And does it mean that that's the only option for you this time is to have another cesarean or not?