Midwifery Matters Autumn 2025 Issue 186
Contents
Features
Singing Together: A New Kind of Placement
Kate Valentine
A Day in the Life of a Community Midwife: Navigating the Joys and Challenges of Postnatal Care
Wanda Warrington
My Vulva is (Not) Trying to Kill Me
Hannah Thomas
arm matters
Love in Action
ARM Retreat 2025
Jean Robinson, 1930 – 2025!
ARM Book Club
Winter National Meeting – It Takes a Village
ARM Members’ Survey – what you told us!
experience
You Can Sit With Us
Lucy Buddingwood
student focus
Second Year, A Strange Limbo
Nancy Eley
Reviews
Little Disasters – By Sarah Vaughan
Reviewed by Lucy Buddingwood
Appreciating the Wisdom of Our Elders – A review of Michel Odent’s Paramana Doula Course
Reviewed by Sasha P. Goldsmith