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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Debra
Breast Cancer
Working with a mother who has been diagnosed with cancer There are around 55,900 new breast cancer cases in the UK every year and research shows that breast cancer is reported in 1 in every 3,000 pregnancies. Most women are between 32 and 38 years old at diagnosis. Most are......
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Love that birth physiology: even more!

Debra
Do we know enough? That is really the question. “We are not really trained that well in anatomy and physiology as far as birth is concerned. That gap in our knowledge really hinders us”. “Bringing it down to three major disruptions, the cause of labour dystocia are fear, medicalisation and......
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Preventing Neural Tube Defects: Plans to add Folic acid to flour

Debra
Folic acid
Good nutrition in pregnancy is important for the wellbeing of the mother and the unborn fetus. A recent statement from the UK Government reveals plans to fortify white bread to improve folate consumption during pregnancy. This post discusses the reasons for the addition.   The presence of folate (vitamin B9)......
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Charging for NHS maternity care – new research

Debra
MATERNITY ACTION
In the UK there have been increasing incidents of news reports talking about cases where Trusts have charged migrant women large amounts of money for their maternity care. In this article Maternity Action discusses their report into compliance of NHS Trusts to the law on charging women. Maternity Action’s new......
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Moving towards green pain relief

Debra
Moving towards green pain relief
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,......
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A student midwife’s reflection of 2020/21

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Hauwa Hamza
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......
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Prioritising safety in a post-Covid world

Debra
Hayley Parkhill
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......
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The language of the new Future Midwife Standards

Debra
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......