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tpm jun 2022 pg30 fear and media

‘Normality’, Fear and the Media

‘Normality’, Fear and the Media Mollie Haskey (she/her) – Practice Development Midwife, Norfolk and Waveney Local Maternity and Neonatal System Twitter @vittoria_mollie Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 25 Issue 06 June 2022, Pages 30-34 Summary The use of ‘normal’ birth has become a part of contentious debate in recent months within midwifery, particularly across […]

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Birth (and midwives) in the media

Birth (and midwives) in the Media By Laura Godfrey Issacs – Midwife, Artist and Activist August 2018 In August 2017, myself and many others were caught up in a storm of media ‘stories’ and debates around birth. These were swirling around the misapprehension that the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) had dropped the use of […]

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Birth on film

Birth on Film Laura Godfrey Issacs – Artist, Birth Activist and Midwife at King’s College London How birth is depicted on film is an important issue – we live in ‘an electronic age’ where pregnancy and birth is represented in unprecedented ways, and few witness a birth first hand before their own labour, whereas nearly […]

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What are women’s ‘rights’ when it comes to infant feeding?

What are women’s ‘rights’ when it comes to infant feeding? Professor Amy Brown  – Swansea University Yesterday, there was one of those media storms. It all started out innocuously enough. The Royal College of Midwives made a slight tweak to their breastfeeding position statement and … bam … suddenly the tabloids were in a shark […]

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The Place of Political Satire and Cartoons in Birth Activism

By Laura Godfrey-Issacs Henny Beaumont (2017) ‘I’ve thought of a great way to tackle midwife shortages’ Recent political events in the UK and globally are a gift for satirists, such as Henny Beaumont – artist, writer and disability activist – and subsequently we see a resurgence of political sketches and lampooning in the media. But, […]

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