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Ethics of egg freezing

In September 2016, Samantha Jefferies, the 42-year-old widow of a Falklands war veteran, won a High Court case enabling her to keep frozen embryos that she and her husband had created (BBC News, 2016)...

Nurturing tomorrow's leaders

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent with Louise Perkins

Whatever happened to safety in numbers?

England is a safe place to have a baby. So says secretary of state for health Jeremy Hunt, in the foreword to the new report from the Department of Health's (DH, 2016) Maternity Safety Programme Team....

Personal reflection: A midwifery educator's revalidation experience

Revalidation is the formal communication with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to demonstrate that one has met the standards prescribed for revalidation as a midwife Smart's (2016) top tip for...

Working to put clean water at the heart of health care

Nearly 3 years after giving birth to my daughter, I'm still haunted by the memory of bleeding heavily, alone with my newborn, just 10 days later As I waited, anxiously and in pain, for an ambulance,...

Optimum care for disabled women

This summer, as the Paralympics GB team soared to success with 147 medals in Rio, a report (Hall et al, 2016) was published which highlights that there is a long way to go in improving attitudes...

Alcohol, pregnancy and the precautionary principle

Philosopher Mary Midgley (1992: 3) observed: ‘As the gap between professional science and everyday thinking widens, it gets increasingly hard to work out in what sense most of us can be said to be...

From medicalisation to humanisation

In my visits around the UK and to different parts of the world over recent years, I have been struck by how intractable and pervasive the medicalisation of childbirth has become

Advancing attitudes towards maternal age

A former school friend of mine, who had her first child this year, told me about her anger when an obstetrician referred to her pregnancy as ‘geriatric’. Inappropriate though this term may seem...

Investigating stillbirths

September 2016 saw the first ever stillbirth inquest in Northern Ireland (BBC News, 2016) Ever since Cara Rocks was stillborn in 2013, her parents have been seeking answers surrounding her death...

Launching Your Career in Nursing and Midwifery: A Practical Guide

It can be daunting entering the third year of your midwifery degree. There is a lot going on with your course, plus the fact that you need to start looking for a post-qualification job. Launching Your...

Records: What to include

Maternity records provide an account of the care and treatment given to a woman and baby, allowing progress to be monitored and a clinical history to be developed Records allow for continuity of care...

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