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Just past ‘Bear Paw Gas and Convenience’ and not far from ‘Talking Earth Pottery’ sits Tsi Non:we Ionnakeratstha Maternal and Child Health Centre The name is Mohawk for ‘the place they will be born’ A...
ICP Support started life as a support and information line in 1991 In the way many charities begin, it evolved out of personal tragedy In my case, that tragedy was two stillbirths and the diagnosis of...
September is traditionally the time when the majority of new students start their programmes As a lecturer and midwife of many years, meeting people for the first time always makes me think back to...
Each day at work, I introduce myself: ‘Hello, my name is Claire I'm one of the midwives and I'm going to be looking after you today’ This is something I say all the time; however, there is still a...
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In 2017 there was a global population of 244 million international migrants, including 22 million refugees With the inevitable implications for healthcare as a result of mass population movements,...
Midwives must be autonomous practitioners, a stipulation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2018) This article will present a case study in which I was presented with the challenge of...
The majority (approximately 87%) of births in the UK take place in a hospital-based obstetric unit (National Audit Office, 2013) with the remainder in midwifery-led settings such as birth centres or...
Background The role played by the delivery suite co-ordinator in providing safe care has often been overlooked, especially in major maternity policies. There is a paucity of research into this role,...
Diabetes is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and encompasses gestational diabetes mellitus, which is diagnosed during pregnancy; and pre-existing diabetes, which includes type 1...
The World Health Organization (WHO) (2015a) estimates that in the UK, 249−291% of births are by caesarean section, despite evidence illustrating that caesarean section rates greater than 10% fail to...
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