#WorldBreastfeedingWeek 2024 ends today, but our work to make sure policies are put in place in all countries to support women to breastfeed anytime, anywhere, continues.
We thank everyone who took the opportunity to showcase the ways families, societies, communities and health workers can have the back of every breastfeeding mum.
We thank everyone who has celebrated #breastfeeding mums in the past week.
In a world where every woman deserves compassionate and personalised care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period, ICM emphasizes the pivotal role of midwives first professionals health for childbearing women. 🌍
Access the statement here: https://t.co/ggsj7FNG7b
Worried about declines in insects like bees and butterflies? Ways to help in your garden:
🐝 Don't over-tidy
🐝 Let grass grow long
🐝 Let dandelions grow
🐝 Plant lavender and sedums
🐝 Leave some nettles
🐝 Add a wood pile
🐝 More https://t.co/FMgSicetX5
So they DID air an arse-licking tribute to Jimmy Savile despite knowing he was a predatory sex offender...
And now they WON'T air a documentary in which Sir David Attenborough speaks actual facts about the destruction of nature?
Go home, BBC. You're drunker than Phil Mitchell.
🚨Culture Wars Latest: Censoring UK’s most trusted voice on nature is shocking dereliction of BBC’s duty to public service broadcasting. It CANNOT allow truth on nature depletion to be victim in cynical culture wars stoked by populist Ministers #WildIsles https://t.co/uOXT3r4mnl
Preceptorship is all about that forming of professional identity. For 3 years you have been ‘student’. For 3 years you’ve called yourself that. Now all of a sudden your not… and that shift in identity takes time and nurturing - preceptorship can help you in that transition ❤️
Lucy Richards from @RCM_SMF does a fantastic job speaking to delegates at #rcmconf22! An inspired talk on what it is to be a #studentmidwife and how to look after ourselves and each other
Remembering Our Queen.
Today people from across the UK, Commonwealth and around the world will pay tribute to the extraordinary life and reign of Her Majesty The Queen.
I’ve seen too many ridiculous comments about my pregnancy whilst filming @CallTheMidwife1 ( also thank you for the lovely comments!) Women get pregnant, our bodies change. But we have the right to work if we choose to do so. How about just supporting it, and don’t question it?
While people lost their lives, No10 partied. While people stuck to the rules, No10 broke them. While the nation suffered, they joked.
This is absolutely sickening. They are laughing at us all. It's one rule for them and another for the rest of us.