Proud to have contributed to @AnnaTheMidwife's Home Birth book. My @OptiBreech colleagues @MidwifeAmy1 and Emma Spillane co-authored the breech chapter, which contains genuinely new and useful information to help keep births safe when the bottom suprises you.
This #WorldMenoapuseDay, Eri, a member of the RCOG Women’s Network, shares her experience of the menopause, including the symptoms she had and finding support.
Read her blog: https://t.co/ipm39zHXt5
420 midwives, student midwives & allied healthcare professionals already registered!
👉In person - under one roof
👉Refresh your skills
👉Topical mix of policy & research talks
👉Wellbeing zone
👉Large exhibition & lots of prizes 🤩🥳
Register for FREE https://t.co/EyBWIiIR4s
An important day in Scotland and for families who have experienced a loss under 24 weeks. As from today, families can register their little ones name in the Memorial Book of Pregnancy and Baby Loss Prior to 24 Weeks which is held by the National Records of Scotland.
Smoking causes multiple harms including stillbirths, lung disease, heart disease, stroke and dementia. A quarter of cancer deaths are caused by smoking.
Most smokers regret starting.
This will prevent ill health, disability and death.
https://t.co/0e8uNUItSd
“Our hope now is that these schemes are rolled out more widely to the benefit of maternity services, and the women and families they support,” says @GillWaltonRCM on the launch of the evaluation report on the midwifery degree apprenticeships. More here: https://t.co/CjJQzVJOxU
📢BICS23 Conference Programme 📢
@BICSoc have created an exciting and packed Intrapartum Care Conference Programme
We've liaised with MDT colleagues and service users in NHS England NHS Wales NHS Scotland and HSC Northern Ireland @BAPM @OAA@OBSCymru to highlight a few
This news came just as Covid started so I missed it! but v excited to learn about a new vaccine that can prevent recurrent UTIs ! the bane of *so* many women's lives.
Available privately in the UK but hopefully will be available via the NHS at some point!
https://t.co/bZdR2iQrU6
True this - many male colleagues are praised for their assertivenes...
Many female colleagues (me included) hold back for fear of being called aggressive or argumentative.... fair?
#MedEd#MedTwitter#LeadershipMatters
Babies of Black ethnicity now have the highest rates of both stillbirth and neonatal death. Mortality rates for babies of Black and Asian ethnicity remain higher than for babies of White ethnicity across all five deprivation quintiles.
https://t.co/Xh1iDMt0UP
#CCCU 3rd yr st/#midwives 10 wks left of the course, now face another 18 mths training & academic work disregarded. Service is understaffed/ there’ll be no band 5 midwives in East Sussex for 2 yrs. It doesn’t have to be this way. Please donate & support