title: 'You've got it within you': the political act of keeping a wellness focus in the antenatal time.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  by exploring midwives' communication techniques intended to promote a wellness focus in the antenatal period, this study identified strategies midwives use to amplify women's own resources and capacities, with the aim of reducing antenatal anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  a qualitative design utilising focus groups as a means of generating data.
  
  
  METHODS
  two Australian cities: Canberra, ACT and Sydney NSW.
  
  
  METHODS
  14 experienced, practising midwives across two states/territories, employed in multiple hospitals and community settings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  three themes emerged from the analysis: calm unhurriedness, speaking in wellness and reassuring bodies. Midwives in these focus groups used strategies in antenatal care that could be co-ordinated into a planned process for wellness focussed care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  individually midwives used a variety of strategies specifically intended to facilitate women's capabilities, to employ worry usefully and to reduce anxiety. Midwives in the study clearly viewed this kind of wellness focussed care as their responsibility and their right.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the midwives' collective wisdom could be shared and developed further into an overall salutogenic antenatal strategy to be used for the good of pregnant women and their infants.
authors.affiliation: Disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: Jenny.Browne@canberra.edu.au.
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.affiliation: Disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.affiliation: Disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Canberra Midwifery Program, The Canberra Hospital, ACT Health, Canberra, Australia.
authors.forename: Rebekah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.affiliation: Disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; ACT Health Directorate, Canberra, Australia.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D020958:Australian Capital Territory; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery / Q000379:methods*; D009517:New South Wales; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Anxiety; Pregnancy; Salutogenesis; Worry