'Parturescence' and the birth of a parent with midwife Ella Kurz

Released Monday, 4th July 2022

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'Parturescence' and the birth of a parent with midwife Ella Kurz

Monday, 4th July 2022

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Dr Ella Kurz is a midwife from Ngunnawal Country in the ACT.

Today we chat through her work in maternal and child health research at the University of Canberra, as well the term 'parturescence' she coined in her PhD to refer to the opportunities for transformation made possible through childbirth. Ella was awarded the Stephen Parker medal for outstanding thesis for this work.
She recently co-edited the anthology What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press, 2021) and authored My Mother is a Midwife.

What We Carry:
www.amazon.com.au/What-We-Carry-Poetry-Childbearing/dp/0645009091
www.ellakurz.com