Sara Wickham
Sara Wickham
In this column, Sara Wickham takes a sideways look at issues relevant to midwives, students, women and families, inviting us to sit down with a cup of tea and ponder what we think we know. This month, Sara shares details of a study which id...
Hannah Rogers
Hannah Rogers
Guideline commentary takes its place alongside Cochrane corner and Research unwrapped as part of our evidence series. The aim of Guideline commentary is to support you to critique and utilise newly published guidelines, enabling translation...
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Megan Blease,Kerry Taylor
Megan Blease
Preceptorship is the 15th series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practising midwives. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women's experience, and encourage midwiv...
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My transition to becoming a student midwife has not been straightforward: I bring baggage. I was raped 11 years ago and buried it, so did not consider that becoming a midwife would pose any problems. Little did I know that this journey woul...
Samantha Whelan
Samantha Whelan
This article explores the emotional impact that matrna deth as pon midwives--in particular community midwives--and how they cope with grief and critical incident stress. This is because there is little written within the literature about th...
Hannah Tizard
Hannah Tizard
Health can be contextualised in relation to globalisation. Economic and societal influences, increasing gaps between middle income and impoverished groups, mass media, culture sexualisation, consumerism, psychological control and criminal a...
Zoe Hughes
Zoe Hughes
Substance misuse makes a woman vulnerable. During pregnancy, in particular, the issues surrounding Substance misuse and its treatment are very emotive. Pregnancy often prompts women who substance misuse to seek help for their addiction for ...
Marianne Mitchell
Marianne Mitchell
Midwives in the UK should have appropriate education in order to provide optimum care for women with female genital mutilation (FGM) and know how to safeguard any children who could be at risk. In addition to this, women with FGM have a rig...
Phoebe Pallotti
Phoebe Pallotti
This article is a discussion of some of the current knowledge on how to best support young mothers who wish to breastfeed. It includes practice points taken from Phoebe's own qualitative research on young mothers and infant feeding and also...
Anna Maria Speciale
Anna Maria Speciale