But Not Maternity

#ButNotMaternity
A campaign to support parents and birth-workers through maternity Covid-19 restrictions. Media enquiries [email protected]

[But Not Maternity @Butnotmaternity]

Triumph on most scans and appointments :) Next we tackle "allowing" 2nd birth partners and extending visiting hours!
https://t.co/BbOXEhjTH7

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@CreatingDads Children and other family members have been asked to leave the house. Sometimes partners have to go in the next room for a while, but generally the fact that partners have full access has meant a rise in the number of home births in general.

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Here are the updated stats for maternity restrictions across the UK. The detailed list of each restriction and visiting hours for every trust is in bio (which now includes neonatal) #ButNotMaternity #CovidIsNotOver #maternity #birth

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@CreatingDads That figure may be misleading. My apologies, the home births, is simply the stat for the number of trusts offering home births at all. They all allowed partners to attend.

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@sarah_robbo Sure, that would be great. DM me!

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Read the full thread for the link to listen:

[Sarah Brown @sarah_robbo]

@BBCRadioStoke will be talking about the future for #covid #lockdownbabies and their mums who’ve survived without the ‘village’ it takes to raise a child. Including @SoTMSNet @iHealthVisiting @MMHAlliance @UHNM_NHS @TotsPlayStaffs @mpftnhs @Butnotmaternity @ParentInfantFdn

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And yet, partners and doulas who help relieve so much of said depression and anxiety are not allowed to support as needed. Maybe now this has a price tag of monetary value the NHS might open up postnatal visiting and 2nd birth partners? #ButNotMaternity #Highpricetopay

[Birthrights @birthrightsorg]

Perinatal depression and anxiety could cost society an additional £17.5 billion in England, an analysis by @ucl and commissioned by Birthrights has concluded ⬇️

https://t.co/oYRnfVJMf4

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@PregnantScrewed @OlgaFitzRoy @DuncanFisher @sarahrees500 @ShaneBrennanMH @MarchGlas @WelshGovernment @nationalwales I understand. As I said the wording could have been different. I am 40 without children and no intention to have any and I saw the intention meant. But I understand the WHO should be doing better.

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@OlgaFitzRoy @DuncanFisher @sarahrees500 @ShaneBrennanMH @MarchGlas @WelshGovernment @nationalwales @BPAS1968 I see your point. I guess I saw it as good intentions, poorly executed. And for an organisation that big they can't afford to do that.

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@OlgaFitzRoy @DuncanFisher @sarahrees500 @ShaneBrennanMH @MarchGlas @WelshGovernment @nationalwales Yes if you mean the one stating that it sees the need to raise awareness of the dangers of alcohol to those most at risk from it. And fertility can be affected. They could have worded it "those hoping to conceive now or in the future" to be more specific. Why the outrage?!

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Fantastic job available with our alliance partners @PregnantScrewed setting the maternity world to rights. #werkwerkwerk

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Our UK wide maternity restrictions petition reached over 560k signatories. The pregnant folks of Northern Ireland need a hand now please if you could sign and share... #butnotmaternity https://t.co/I240qrUIVx

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Our status list (link in bio) is being updated to reflect current changes but it shows that there is still work to be done on visiting and second birth partners.... #butnotmaternity

[Birthrights @birthrightsorg]

Fantastic that so much progress has been made on visiting restrictions in maternity services over the last few weeks. But still more to do! @PregnantScrewed @aliciakearns @MailOnline @AIMS_online @Butnotmaternity #butnotmaternity

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@bethanjenkins @sarahrees500 @Eluned_Morgan @PregnantScrewed @MarkWilliamsFMH @Saaaarah10 @lynne_neagle @WENWales @chwaraeteg @walestuc @PublicHealthW I do totally get the comparison to pubs and it's is a very valid point but you have to socially distance in those too, and those venues too. It's the 2m rules that's keeping early labour a post code lottery, despite lateral flow tests. It's non sensical!

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Alliance partners @fatherhoodinst take a look at #timewithdad during the pandemic

[fatherhoodinst @fatherhoodinst]

Our new study Lockdown Fathers: the untold story reveals what UK dads have been doing this year. Watch and share the video and join our #timewithdad campaign https://t.co/v1zO6kxHCt

[But Not Maternity @Butnotmaternity]

@sophiec94 @aliciakearns @PregnantScrewed @AVMikhailova @birthrightsorg There are definitely, from our research, still trusts who only allow partners in once admitted to the delivery ward. They don't use established labour as a term now, but if you're in early labour & not admitted to delivery, many trusts websites still state partners can't come in.

[But Not Maternity @Butnotmaternity]

@medeiros_catia @PregnantScrewed @aliciakearns @AVMikhailova @birthrightsorg As of now many trusts are allowing this now, but it does depend on social distancing abilities so it's not everywhere. Check with your community midwives again as their appointments may differ from hospitals.

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@rebeccabrewer Done

[But Not Maternity @Butnotmaternity]

Triumph on most scans and appointments :) Next we tackle "allowing" 2nd birth partners and extending visiting hours!
https://t.co/BbOXEhjTH7