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A Holding Time Project call to arms: a collective portrait of breastfeeding

Debra
A Holding Time Project call to arms: a collective portrait of breastfeeding
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 artist Lisa Creagh on behalf of the partnership. The focus......
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How do NHS midwives facilitate women’s alternative physiological births?

Debra
Alternative physiological births
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 discusses her PhD research, during which she explored how......
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Midwifery Sector News

Participants invited to take part in a survey which explores the needs and care of perinatal women from ethnic minority backgrounds in Lancashire and South Cumbria

Paul
We are researchers from the University of Central Lancashire who are undertaking a project funded by the Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Maternity System. The study aims to explore the experiences of maternity care and mental health needs and support amongst ethnic minority women in Lancashire and South Cumbria. As......
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When choice is taken away empowering families when facing decisions about baby loss

Paul
Enabling expectant parents to make informed choices about pregnancy and birth has been a key concern for both parents-to-be and maternity professionals over the past few years.  For pregnant women in the UK, it seems there have never been so many options. Sadly, when a baby dies – in utero......
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Midwifery Sector News

“It’s not really about safety, it’s about fear.” – Normal Birth… what’s going on?

Paul
Disproportionate levels of bullying and racism in obstetrics and gynaecology
Across the world, rates of caesarean section and other interventions in labour and birth are on the rise. Worryingly, however, birth outcomes for mothers and babies are not improving in a clearly correlative way. In fact, maternal mortality in the USA has risen in recent years despite the country having......
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Midwifery Sector News

Informed Consent: Human Rights and Respect in Maternity Care

Paul
“This was never about blame, this was never about a particular doctor getting in trouble… this was about me wanting to understand what had happened to me and to make sure it never happened to another person.” The Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board consent case [2015] resulted in legally enforced......
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Midwifery Sector News

Growing a Family with Dignity

Paul
One of the UN’s sustainable development goals is for there to be no more than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births across the globe by 2030. While the worldwide maternal mortality rate is falling, it is not falling quickly enough to meet that target.  Among the many factors leading......
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Videos

Similarities in Mother-Daughter Labour and Birth Characteristics: A two-generation matched cohort study

Paul
Dr Mindy Ebrahimoff, Senior Midwife, Senior Lecturer Clinical Tutor, Lis Maternity Hospital, Sourasky Medical Centre (Tel Aviv, Israel) presents “Similarities in Mother-Daughter Labour and Birth Characteristics: A two-generation matched cohort study” at the International Maternity Expo 2019. Find out more about International Maternity Expo: internationalmaternityexpo.com/...
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From Medicalisation to Humanisation of Birth

Paul
Professor Doctor Lesley Page CBE (Visiting Professor in Midwifery, King’s College London; Adjunct Professor UTS Australia, Griffith University Australia; Honorary Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes University) presents: “From Medicalisation to Humanisation of Birth” at the International Maternity Expo 2019. Find out more about International Maternity Expo: internationalmaternityexpo.com/...
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