Alix Fernando

Passionately campaigning for use of Fetal Navigation Techniques to @MakeBirthEasier, for mums,babies&midwives. #MakeBirthEasierCampaignUK Opinions are my own

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@sheena_byrom How wonderful you can share your wisdom and experience with these midwives. They (and their clients) will benefit so much!! Hope you had a great trip. 🥰

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@sheena_byrom No partners in labour room. Partners only allowed in delivery room if no other women in room. Even then not always allowed.

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@sheena_byrom Wow you’re in HK! ❤️I live 1hr away in Macau.Practice same here.Maybe even more https://t.co/Pc6wiOY7Fw possessions/clothes/phone. Immediate clamping against parents wishes. Cord traction=>retained https://t.co/nTdfLpOclP skin2skin.Separating mum&baby.Formula against consent 😞

[Biomechanics for Birth @MollytheMidwife]

“There is great variation in reliability and agreement measures for continuous intrapartum FHR monitoring, implying that intrapartum CTG should be used with caution for clinical decision making given its questionable reliability.”
Time for a rethink?

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@godfrey_isaacs Hats off to you Laura 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 Thank you for standing up and fighting

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@godfrey_isaacs @NurseSayNO Bravo Laura!! 👏🏼 So elequently put!

[Biomechanics for Birth @MollytheMidwife]

The time has come for a paradigm shift in obstetrics’ medico-legal litigations. Intrapartum fetal surveillance is still a controversial issue
https://t.co/a6nSvkSJK1

[Biomechanics for Birth @MollytheMidwife]

Such a delight to be involved in this wonderful project! Many thanks for all your hard Deepa. Thanks to the students willing to learn how to recognise when birth goes awry & the skills to resolve a birth process complicated by a mechanical issue 💖

[Biomechanics for Birth @MollytheMidwife]

Gynaecoid is NOT the normal pelvis! Android pelvis is almost unknown in females. There’s a variety of shapes or as one study suggests a nebulous cloud.
#Midwives & #obstetricians are educated using misleading & often false info about the female pelvis based on a study from 1933!

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

Continuity of care makes a huge positive difference

[Sarah Murphy @sarahjmurp]

Women themselves have very kindly shared with me* why they made an individual choice to go privately for their pregnancy. They capture the wide variety of individual reasons and nuance behind that decision making. A 🧵
*shared with implied consent

[Sarah Coiffait 🌈 @SarahCoiffait]

Sharing this for anyone who needs to see it today.

You are magical @sheena_byrom

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

Amazing to see this! Biomechanics for Birth to make birth easier and safer for women and babies.

[Dayna @DaynaWright1]

@sheena_byrom Funding for training from CPD funds for midwives and senior MSWs to attend optional Optimal Birth Training with @MollytheMidwife at @BWH_NHS

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

Support and involvement of obstetric teams for Biomechanics for Birth is key to progressing it into standard care where it should be. Supporting physiology to make birth easier for women and babies. ❤️

[Cheryl Cole @cherylcole73]

@Bronita80 @LaurenGrahamRM @sheena_byrom @downie_mel @UHP_NHS We have also got our obstetric team involved and they also prescribe biomechanics in their management plans so great support from the MDT at @UHP_NHS. Hail the peanut ball!

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

Banning abortion never actually bans abortions. It just bans safe abortions. And everybody knows it.

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@cherylcole73 @Bronita80 @LaurenGrahamRM @sheena_byrom @downie_mel @UHP_NHS This is amazing! Obstetric team support, and involvement (even better!) is key to biomechanics for birth progressing towards standard care.

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@DaynaWright1 @sheena_byrom @MollytheMidwife @BWH_NHS This is what I spoke to the delegation about in Oct 2017 @sheena_byrom It’s fantastic to see @MollytheMidwife bringing biomechanics for birth training to midwives and into daily practice!! Looking forward to the day it is standard training& standard practice (in NICE GL)

[Alix Fernando @MakeBirthEasier]

@sheena_byrom Lovely to read this positive story Sheena! ❤️ Sending love and strength to your sister. Xxx

[Omi Thistle🇺🇦 @NaomiThistleth1]

Just back from a beautiful @NHSaaa home birth💗 on my elective placement. How special to see a woman during her pregnancy, be present at the birth and know I will be able to see her and her baby tomorrow. @WestKland @laurajmuir @UWSMidSoc @UniWestScotland @RCM_SMF @birthpositive

[Chris Pearson @Chris_G_Pearson]

This summer is going to be tough for a lot of families, please #RT it may help someone