On May 28, 2024, Tomoka Maruyama, a midwife and infertility counselor who works as an EggU counselor at BeLiebe Co., Ltd., gave a lecture on "Special Lectures in Midwifery I: The Practice of Infertility Counseling " to students in the Midwifery Training Course at the Graduate School of Human Nursing , University of Shiga Prefecture .
The title of the lecture is " Support for couples looking to welcome a new family member ."
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🔸Excerpts from participating students' impressions🔸
⚪︎ Getting pregnant tends to be the goal, but we learned that a strength of midwives is that they can provide support from pregnancy through to child-rearing, taking into account the period afterwards .
⚪︎It was felt that when midwives understand and interact with the emotional fluctuations of pregnant women who have experienced great physical, mental and even social stress during treatment, it helps pregnant women to perceive their treatment experience as meaningful and helps mothers prepare to welcome their babies.
⚪︎ I realized that the concerns of women undergoing fertility treatment for their first child are different from those of women undergoing fertility treatment for their second or third child . I felt that it was important for midwives to listen to their worries and conflicts and create a space where they could express their feelings.