Midwives’ Role in Providing Nutrition Advice during Pregnancy: Meeting the Challenges? A Qualitative Study

Table 1

Midwives’ specified models of care.

Midwife number	Models of care as specified by the midwives
Midwife 1	The team leader, midwifery-led model of care/continuity of care
Midwife 2	Lactation consultant/also has a private practice/does antenatal care but works mostly in postnatal care
Midwife 3	Caseload/continuity of care
Midwife 4	Community-based model/continuity of care
Midwife 5	Hospital/rotate through different areas and does antenatal clinic/fragmented care/had been doing antenatal care for a few months
Midwife 6	Private hospital/see women at booking only
Midwife 7	Midwifery-led care/continuity of care
Midwife 8	Hospital/midwifery educator/does antenatal clinic/fragmented care
Midwife 9	Private practice for an obstetrician/fragmented care
Midwife 10	Hospital/rotate through different areas/fragmented care/also a clinical midwife for midwifery model of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
Midwife 11	Public hospital/fragmented care/mainly antenatal care in an Aboriginal health clinic and a midwives’ clinic in the country/also has private practice
Midwife 12	Community-based/continuity of care
Midwife 13	Team midwifery/birth centre/continuity of care
Midwife 14	Hospital/educator/does antenatal classes/used to work in clinical area
Midwife 15	Multidisciplinary team of midwives with residents and consultants/rotate through the clinic/fragmented care
Midwife 16	Midwifery Group Practice (Caseload)/continuity of care