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Reading “Closure”

Reading “Closure”

Reading “Closure”, Becky Reed and Nadine Edwards account of the sabotage of the Albany Midwifery Practice (AMP) by managers at Kings College Hospital enraged me, made me cry, and woke me up in the night. It is just as well that Tim Smart, former CEO at Kings doesn’t...

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Will Bill Kirkup March for Midwives?

Will Bill Kirkup March for Midwives?

I was surprised that the Sunday Times wasn’t full of the latest scandalous report into maternity services. Bill Kirkup’s report into East Kent showed a toxic culture that harms women, babies their families – and midwives. It was the same old story: rapid turnover of...

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The Baby on the Fire Escape – A Review

The Baby on the Fire Escape – A Review

From the captivating cover art, ‘Mother and Child’ by Alice Neel, to the community of ‘mothers and others’ in Julie Phillips acknowledgments at the end of the book, this text reverberates with honest reflections of artists as mothers, mothers as artists, that will resonate with anyone combining work and mothering.

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This Is Going to Hurt – and it certainly does

This Is Going to Hurt – and it certainly does

Guest Post by Paula Cleary – I decided to watch ‘This is Going to Hurt’ on BBC iPlayer to try and see if there was anything I could find sympathetic about the protagonist. Unless you’ve witnessed birth from various angles you might be forgiven for thinking “This is going to hurt” is an accurate representation of normality. And that’s because it IS. One kind of reality, anyway.

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The Threat of Social Services in Maternity Care

The Threat of Social Services in Maternity Care

Written by Georgia Clancy The management and communication of risk in pregnancy and birth is a complex issue for both women and their maternity care providers, feeding into the choices they have and the decisions they make. The normalisation of the medical model of...

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Better Births Five Years on

Better Births Five Years on

I’m old enough to remember Changing Childbirth five, ten and even fifteen years on (now it’s 28 years – how did that happen?) And now it is Better Births five years on. The two Reports had the same visionary leader, Baroness Julia Cumberlege, who can be proud of what...

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