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  We've only just been born but in the next few months we plan to add more infosheets and content of interest to the BE pages. Please see article submission guidelines if you are interested in submitting content for this website or our newsletter.

   

  
   

• Submission Guidelines

  
  If you would like to submit content to Birth Essentials please take note of the following guidelines.

  Articles must be fact, experience or evidence-based. If quoting others' material due reference should be given with clear citations. If quoting statistics and research findings they must be from primary research (such as a paper on a study published in a peer reviewed medical journal) and not from opinion pieces or books where someone is offering an opinion.

  You can, however, interview mothers to share their insights or experiences and you can use your own stories to share insights and experiences about different aspects of pregnancy, birth and early parent-hood.

  Articles and Birth Stories should make sure that the jargon used is not too technical. If you need to use technical language please provide a list of definitions with your article.

  If you are submitting a piece that has been published elsewhere please also submit information of where the piece was originally published.

  Article content should relate in some way to caesareans, birth after caesareans, avoiding caesareans or psycho-social aspects of birth.

  Articles should be no more than about 2000 words.

  The editor of this website reserves the right to edit submissions before putting them up on the website.

  Any submission that is not deemed to fit within the purpose and intent of these guidelines will not be published on the website and an explanation will be provided to the person submitting the article/piece.

  Authors retain copyright of their original works.

  To submit an article please email info@canaustralia.net.

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