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Nutrition and eating well from pre-conception to age five

Debra
– Firststeps Nutrition
First Steps Nutrition Trust: Celebrating 10 years providing independent, evidence-based information on nutrition and eating well from pre-conception to age five to support the work of UK health care professionals First Steps Nutrition Trust is a UK-focused, independent public health nutrition charity predominantly working in the early years. We’re 10......
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Midwifery students’ experiences of being bullied on placement

Debra
Midwifery students' experiences of being bullied on placement
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 clinical placement in the UK. The process of the......
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Climate Change for Maternity and Midwifery

Debra
Climate Change for Maternity & Midwifery
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 and their General Secretary Gill Walton. How has it......
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The Student Midwife Experience Festival | 10 November 2021

Debra
The Student Midwife Experience Festival
Visit the Student Midwife Experience website. The 1st National Student Midwife Experience Festival takes place on Wednesday 10 November online. Created with student midwives for student midwives and brought to you by The Student Midwife Journal, All4Maternity, The Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Maternity and Midwifery Forum. This exciting......
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Join thousands of midwives already registered to issue digital maternity exemption certificates

Paul
Digital Maternity Exemption Certificates
Almost 7,500 healthcare professionals have now signed up to be able to send digital certificates. Midwives, practice nurses and health visitors can register to issue digital maternity exemption certificates on the NHS Business Services Authority website. Pregnant women and mothers with a baby under a year old need a maternity......
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LIVE STREAM: International Maternity Experience 2020

Paul
Welcome to the International Maternity Experience 2020 live stream! Join expert speakers from around the world to explore “Maternity Services after COVID-19: Recovery, Resilience, Sustainability & Rights”. COVID-19 has presented a huge challenge to maternity and midwifery services worldwide, laying bare shocking inequalities across healthcare and challenging the resilience and......
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All-Ireland Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2020 Awards Shortlist Announced

Paul
Photo by Jingda Chen on Unsplash
The inaugural All-Ireland Maternity & Midwifery Festival takes place at Croke Park, Dublin on Tuesday 11th February 2020. The festival will feature our usual mix of high quality speakers, the latest industry innovations in our exhibition area, free taster treatments in our wellbeing zone and of course our first ever All-Ireland maternity &......
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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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“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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