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BJM produces a number of practical guides for midwives aimed at helping you provide safe and effective care for diabetes patients. Take a look at some of our recent articles – all written and reviewed...
BJM produces a number of articles offering best practice and guidance for midwives to promote breastfeeding among new mothers. Take a look at some of our recent articles – all written and reviewed by...
BJM has an online archive of over 4,000 articles providing best practice, research and guidance – all written and reviewed by practitioners and covering all aspects of care. Take a look at the top 5...
Gestational diabetes mellitus is the most common medical condition to affect pregnant women, reported to affect 10–20% of pregnancies in England (NHS England, 2024a). Its prevalence is increasing...
Careful and continuous monitoring of women with diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes mellitus is essential in pregnancy, labour and birth. However, postnatal follow-up is also vital because of...
The joint cardiac and obstetric service at the Royal Brompton and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, was established by Professor Phillip Steer and Dr Jane Sommerville in 1988. This was then expanded...
It is commonly stated that postpartum haemorrhage is unpredictable, and so midwives and obstetricians always need to be prepared (Weeks and Neilson, 2015). While this is true to a certain extent, it...
There is debate surrounding the definition of mental health. To explore this, the concept of ‘health’ must first be considered. The World Health Organization (WHO, 1948) defined a healthy individual...
The regional maternity team co-produced the sixty supportive steps to safety tool, alongside a maternity service user representative, the local maternity and neonatal system (involved with providing,...
Brachial plexus injuries can be classified in several ways, such as by severity, where the injury is categorised as avulsion, rupture, neuroma or neuropraxia (Synder-Warwick, 2021) (Figure 2)..
This article presents a critique of the ITEMS study, based on its report (LGBT Foundation, 2022). The authors of this article argue that the study framing lacks clarity and balance, that there is a...
Anatomically, a stoma is simply an opening in the body between the skin and a hollow viscus. Common types of intestinal stomas are colostomies and ileostomies. Colostomies are formed from the colon...
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