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Moving towards green pain relief

Debra4 October 20215 October 2021

Concerns about climate change and the short and long term effects on our world remain a hot topic in the news. In the article below, midwifery student Nicole Rajan-Brown, points out news on a new form of “green gas and air” that is being used in a unit in Newcastle,......

A student midwife’s reflection of 2020/21

Debra23 September 202128 September 2021

Over the past year in the UK students in Universities (AEI) have been affected by the experience of COVID-19 lockdown. In the Maternity and Midwifery forum we have recorded a number of talks on the Midwifery Hour or at Festivals discussing the difficulties that student midwives, and educators, have been......

Prioritising safety in a post-Covid world

Debra23 September 20215 October 2021

In this talk Hayley Parkhill, Midwife with Private Midwives, shares her perspective on caring during the pandemic considering the research published throughout the last year. She discusses using BPR Medical’s gas therapy products in her practice to support the comfort of women and new born babies in her care. Watch......

The language of the new Future Midwife Standards

Debra20 September 202121 September 2021

Dr Jacqui Williams and Verena Wallace, senior midwifery advisers at the NMC, discuss the language of the new Future Midwife standards. The new future midwife standards are not so new, they have been out for a few years, but with the pandemic they may sound new to many. Follow this......

New research unearths midwives’ problematic substance use for the first time

Debra20 September 202121 September 2021

Problematic substance use_ an assessment of workplace implications in midwifery

In recent years the pressure midwives are under is being documented across the world. Dr Sally Pezaro and Dr Karen Maher, from Coventry university, have taken this further with research investigation, and now would like your help. Problematic substance use: an assessment of workplace implications in midwifery S Pezaro, K......

Love That Birth Physiology

Debra3 September 202113 September 2021

Gaining knowledge of the anatomy and physiology around birth is an important aspect of a student midwife’s programme of education. It is also important to understand how the actions midwives take is related to the physiology. Molly is creator and teacher of the “Biomechanics for birth” courses, as well as......

Maternity & Midwifery Directory Launch

Debra3 September 2021

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 still. Maternity and midwifery is going through its......

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

Debra31 August 20211 September 2021

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......

How do NHS midwives facilitate women’s alternative physiological births?

Debra31 August 202131 August 2021

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......

It’s time to get equality in vaccinations

Debra31 August 202131 August 2021

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 vaccination rate for the adult population has 88% for......

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