Climate Special: New sustainable parenting project Rebecca Johnson – Community Midwife, North Pembrokeshire Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 23 Issue 9 October 2020 https://doi.org/10.55975/VRPF2410 On 19 March, as the UK was on the cusp of going into COVID-19 lockdown, Hywel Dda University Health Board launched an environmental initiative targeting prospective and new parents to […]
How to be a Birth and Climate Activist
How to be a Birth and Climate Activist Laura Godfrey-Isaacs – Artist, Midwife and Birth Activist, King’s College Hospital Published in The Practising Midwife – Volume 23 Issue 7 July/August 2020 https://doi.org/10.55975/UZFG9418 Summary In this article, Laura questions whether the birth world could connect the environmental movement and climate justice with human rights in birth, […]
Why Should We Care About Entonox? The Importance of Climate Change for Midwives
Why Should We Care About Entonox? The Importance of Climate Change for Midwives Dr Majel McGranahan – Public Health Specialty Registrar, University of Warwick Angela Cartwright – Public Health Specialty Registrar, Midwifery Forum Committee member, RCN Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 23 Issue 7 July/August 2020 https://doi.org/10.55975/KBCZ7232 Summary Increasing global temperatures due to climate […]
The Architecture of Motherhood
The Architecture of Motherhood Marta Parra Casado – Architect, Madrid Politechnic University Angela Elisabeth Müller – Architect, Berlin Technic University Published in The Practising Midwife, Volume 23, Issue 2 February 2020 Summary Birth as a creative and complex act is, even today, undervalued, somehow hidden and subject to efficiency or performance criteria. Maternity wards are still being designed […]
Humanisation of Childbirth 1. The Humanisation of Childbirth
Humanisation of Childbirth 1. The Humanisation of Childbirth Dr Elizabeth Newnham – Lecturer in Midwifery at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Professor Lesley Page – Visiting Professor in Midwifery at Kings College London, Adjunct Professor at University of Technology, Sydney and Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University Published in The Practising Midwife Volume […]
Being With Woman: Claiming Midwifery Space
Being With Woman: Claiming Midwifery Space Louise Hunter – Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at Oxford Brookes University Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 18 Issue 3 March 2015 Summary Being ‘with woman’ is characterised as presence, a spiritual concept which is nevertheless bound up with physical space. In this article, the work of the American […]