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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 details...
Better Births Two Years On
How is Better Births working in your area? Have you noticed big improvements in the maternity service offered? Or have you been disappointed? At the Association of Radical Midwives we're very big supporters of the Better Births project. We particularly welcome all...
Agnes Gereb – statement by ICM and FIGO offers glimmer of light
Midwives, along with other health professionals, have been on the back foot in recent years. Reeling from attacks on the profession in the name of 'safety' by those in positions of authority who probably mean well but have never attended a birth, midwives find it...
Agnes Gereb sentenced to two years in prison for attending home births
Commentary by Nicky Grace, ARM Website Editor and Independent Midwife practising in the UK The international community concerned with childbirth and human rights has been shocked by the two-year prison sentence handed to Hungarian midwife Agnes Gereb this...
ARM supports the Kindness Conference
Saturday 11th November 2017, Bradford University We hear so much about the scourge of bullying in maternity and midwifery - why does kindness sometimes seem so hard to achieve? It is strange to think that the world of pregnancy and birth (which ought be one of the...
Woops – I forgot to upgrade my membership
I'm embarrassed to confess that I was locked out of my ARM membership account the other day and realised that of all people I had forgotten to upgrade my membership! How mortifying - I'm the ARM website editor!!! Woops! It just shows how easy it is to forget, even...
Midwives support women however they give birth
By Katherine Hales, ARM National Coordinator We regret the reporting in the Times and the Guardian yesterday morning (12/08/2017) of the decision by the RCM to integrate their 'Campaign for Normal Birth' into the new RCM 'Better Births' initiative.The report suggests...
Good news – eating cake can Save the Midwife!
ARM members and supporters have been amazingly creative with their fundraising efforts using the Justgiving website for the Save the Midwife campaign, so we wanted to bring you a little round-up of everything that's been happening. There do seem to be rather a lot of...
Save the Midwife: protecting women’s rights with better midwifery regulation
Representatives from ARM, AIMS and other key birth organisations came together to plan the next steps of the #savethemidwife campaign. The overwhelming emotion was unity; a birth movement of the 21st century, one that brings together women, midwives and birth...
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