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Reasons to be Joyful
Caroline Flint offers us a healthy dose of her characteristic wit and wisdom in this inspiring article. She shares her reasons for feeling optimistic about birth and the opportunities that midwives and women can grasp even during the COVID-19 crisis.After years and...
20 Ways to Support Labour
I've just popped together a simple list of ideas to use when supporting someone through labour. As a doula I spent many hours supporting women in the latent phase of labour at home and sometimes it can be hard to keep that energy flowing through the hours of the...
Birth out of the Box – A Twin Homebirth
I have quite a varied role in my work – for which I am grateful. I generally have three small jobs. They include teaching and practising holistic therapies,specializing in womens reproductive health and well-being. The other side of my role involves teaching...
Top Tips for Reducing the Risk of Perineal Tears in Labour
The reduction of risk and prevention of perineal tears when supporting birth is a core part of skilled midwifery practice. We know that perineal damage can have both short and long term impacts around discomfort, pain and sexual functioning and a Cochrane review...
Being Black and Birthing in the West
One of the legacies of colonisation, and the continued colonisation of different groups of people, is the deliberate throwing away of cultural heritage and knowledge. When I was younger, actually even now, my mum would talk about fish. ‘I dream a fish’, she’d say. We...
Induction Voices
Autonomous responsible midwives who assist parents to have their babies in gentle, holistic ways are very fortunate in the vast majority of cases to see the beauty and perfection of spontaneous, physiological birth. If our clever hands are needed we use them...
MIDWIFERY WALKS: Elizabeth Thompson Walk
Elizabeth Thompson was a midwife practising in and around Kendal in the mid- to late 17th century. A diary, kept from 1669 to shortly before her death in 1675, lists the births she attended and the places where those births took place. The main walk will visit some of...
Birth in the Balance – Radical Journal
Delegates at the ARM Conference on 1st December 2018 had a wonderful time journaling. We invited all delegates to make contributions to a journal we are creating from responses to the conference and theme of ‘Birth in the Balance’. We've had some brilliant...
Bearing Different Risks
Thank you to Caitlin Stobie, PhD Candidate from the English Department at Leeds University, for this guest post about a fascinating collaboration between historians and midwives. Check out the Facebook event for more...
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