Midwifery Matters 40th Birthday Special, Summer 2016 Issue 149
Content
Editorial 2
News and Views
EU Referendum: what it means for women and healthcare 3
Sickness rates in the NHS: a defence of midwives being sick Deborah Hughes 5
Midwifery regulation is changing: have your say 5
Sheila Kitzinger symposium champions relational continuity 6
Articles
ARM in a Changing World (1976-2016) Irene Walton 7
The Three Things we can do to Reduce Perinatal Mortality Margaret Jowitt 12
“But the latch looks perfect”: breastfeeding with posterior tongue-tie Lisa-Marie South 14
Mild, Slight or Significant? The dilemma of tongue-ties Suzanne Barber 17
The demise of statutory supervision Bev Jervis & Lesley Choucri 21
Resistance to Continuity of Carer: our need for
the naming of parts Mavis Kirkham 23
Celebrating Continuity; rhetoric into reality, policy into practice Bev Jervis 25
An unexpected choice: the homebirth of Florence Rose Hannah Pattison 26
Member’s lowdown
40 years of ARM: which direction now? 28
A point on fees 28
Birthday Business
The faces behind ARM 30
What’s on
A Day at the Breech 6
Unity in Midwifery and Birth 30
ARM Retreat 37
Diary Dates 36