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disAbility Maternity Care and Northcott Innovation are excited to launch the final resources from our ‘Supported Decision Making for Women with Intellectual Disability During Pregnancy’ project. We have called the resource set ‘Your Pregnancy, Your Choices!’
Who helped us create the resources?
The resources were co-designed with a small group of women with intellectual disability (ID) who were pregnant or who had had a baby.
Where did we hold workshops?
We held three phases of workshops – each phase included workshops in both Port Macquarie and Parramatta.
What happened in each of the phases of the workshops?
The first phase of our workshops gave us perspectives from participants on what they thought went well during and after their pregnancy, what decisions they were given choices to make and what decisions they weren’t give choices to make.
The second phase of our workshops used participants feedback to explore content detail to build the resources. The themes our participants identified as most wanted/needed in our first phase workshops/interviews were:
While themes for six different resources were explored in our second phase workshops, we landed on the production of five resources and two were quite different from what we originally expected… because that is what happens in co-design!
Our third phase workshops gathered feedback and approval from our participants before we finalised the resources for distribution.
Your Pregnancy, Your Choices
Our resources are ready! Please download them as you wish. Let others know about them so that we can improve maternity care and choice making for parents with intellectual disability:
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Different ways to be cared for when you are pregnant
Taking medications in your pregnancy
Things that help with pain when you are having a baby
Your Pregnancy, Your Choices – A guide for Support People
We want your feedback!
Please send us your feedback… we want to know if the resources are working well … or not!
Contact us at:
E: admin@disabilitymaternitycare.com
P: 0431 539 333
This project is funded by a grant from Council for Intellectual Disability and is part of a project about supported decision making called My Rights Matter.
DisAbilityMaternityCare has been established to provide women with disability and service providers information to assist in supporting them to become mothers. It is established on the premise that all women have the right to establish relationships, have consensual sex, and become mothers should they so choose.
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