For maternity and midwifery services in the UK the pandemic seemed to make time stand still, if not go backwards.
Home births cancelled, water births restricted, limited visitors (fathers were never allowed in when I was born).
But time did not stand
During National Breastfeeding week at the start of August Improving Me, the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Women and Children’s Partnership launched the Holding Time Project. This involved a call for participants in an inter-disciplinary, multi-channel art project, developed by visual
In the print and social media heated debates have often taken place over interventions during birth. Some women and birthing people only want medicalised care where there is another group who want to choose less intervention birth.
In this talk Claire
As the summer months progress here in the UK, there continue to be reverberations in the press and on social media about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Writing today, rates continue to rise, with another 230,800 testing positive within the last week. The
It has been challenging for pregnant women and birthing people over the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we know many resources were cut, including face-to-face preparation for birth groups.
In this talk, “A lot more anxious and a lot
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Bullying and mistreatment of students, and other members of the maternity team, has been an ongoing challenge across health services, both nationally and abroad.
Tanya Capper, a midwifery educationalist from Australia, presents a study on the experiences of student midwives on
A hostile environment is growing towards midwifery.
Death threats on social media to the General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives. Royal Colleges write to the Times deploring abuse of staff. Midwives and their allies need to support the RCM
Visit the Student Midwife Experience website.
The 1st National Student Midwife Experience Festival takes place on Wednesday 10 November online and with a networking hub and exhibition in Manchester.
Created with student midwives for student midwives and brought to you by The
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A few weeks ago I posted a blog that discussed midwifery staffing shortage. It provoked an unprecedented response from midwives in the UK highlighting some of the current challenges they face. It seemed only right to follow