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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...

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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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