Maternity & Midwifery Forum

Childbirth Choices Matter Campaign: enabling choice of caregiver

Paul
Planning a birth is a concept that has become part of our colloquial language in our childbirth journeys; choosing the environment, care provider and circumstances that surround your birth is both an issue of human rights and personal dignity. For some women and birthing people the choice of care provider......
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Lessons from Saving lives, improving Mothers’ care 2016-18

Paul
On January 14th 2021, the next confidential enquiry into maternal deaths, Saving lives, Improving care for 2016-18 was released from MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK) based at the NPEU in Oxford. For those unfamiliar with these reports, since 1952 an investigation......
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Love that birth physiology

Paul
Molly O’Brien, Midwife, Associate Lecturer, creator and teacher of ‘Biomechanics for Birth’ courses for birth professionals and associates and a birth preparation class called ‘Moving for an Easier Birth’ gives a presentation on “Love that birth physiology” at the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2021....
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Pre-eclampsia: Maternity & Midwifery Hour

Paul
Professor Andy Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics, King’s College London; Trustee, APEC and Caitlin Wilson, Consultant Midwife, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust / University of Worcester discuss Pre-Eclampsia in another episode of Maternity & Midwifery Hour....
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