Indonesia has invested considerable effort in improving maternal healthcare, expanding skilled birth attendance, and strengthening the role of midwives across the country....
Midwifery encompasses a variety of different duties and roles, but in the end we all share the same end goal – to practice compassionately and safely (or so I thought).
The NPEU report ‘International comparison of caesarean birth rates, 2020 – 2025’, published on 5th June 2026, describes a marked increase in the caesarean birth (CB) rate in...
This blog post was written by Laura Spence. She is a midwife, MSc Perinatal Mental Health, and founder of NeuroNatal Academy CIC, focused on neuroinclusive maternity care (ADHD,...
It’s official – the concept of ‘pursuit of normal birth at any cost’ will be considered in the national maternity and neonatal investigation. Its scope includes ‘understanding...
I believe this dramatic and hurtful (to me) phrase was first introduced in the 2015 report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation by Dr Bill Kirkup, when he wrote, “There was a growing move amongst midwives to pursue normal childbirth ‘at any cost’”