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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
As a profession, there have been recent changes to improve the quality and effectiveness of care and learn from significant incidents The need for change and improved support became apparent following...
A previous article in this series (Power et al, 2018) discussed ‘Becoming a midwife’, an innovative e-module that was introduced at the University of Northampton to support student midwives'...
A recent court case in London (PXW v Kingston Hospital) heard that a baby was born with cerebral palsy, allegedly because of a midwife's negligence when assessing the mother in the maternity...
The word ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’ and since embarking on my midwifery training 17 years ago, that is exactly where I have been I have supported women during the elation of becoming a mother, and I...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the drug thalidomide was taken by pregnant women to counteract morning sickness —with the result that around 10 000 babies globally were born with limb deformities
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Maddie McMahon has captured the essence of the ultimate feminist issue of childbirth and motherhood in her nurturing and eloquently written book, Why Mothering Matters. As a doula and a mother,...
At the time of writing, Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (29 April–3 May 2019) was being discussed and shared across social media and the press Statistics about how childbearing women are...
Thanks to years of campaigning to raise awareness and conduct research, it is now likely that midwives will have heard of and received training on female genital mutilation (FGM). Although cases are...
I was recently asked by a colleague why continuity of carer had become the topic of conversation for many people working in maternity or associated with the implementation of healthcare policy Tempted...
An article in The Lancet concluded that:
This May I should be celebrating my son's 7th birthday, however, sadly, I am grieving the 7 year anniversary of his death instead It has been 3 years since I last wrote an article for British Journal...
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