Medical Dominance: Are Midwives And Women Just Another Number? Sally Hargreaves – PhD Candidate, Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife, University of Tasmania Social @sallymhargreaves Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 02 Issue 03 February 2024, Pages 13-17 https://doi.org/10.55975/BLKL3201 Summary The term medical dominance refers to medicine as the most powerful overarching profession in the health system. […]
Book Review: Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth Edited by Lorna Davies, Rea Daellenbach and Mary Kensington
Book Review: Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth Edited by Lorna Davies, Rea Daellenbach and Mary Kensington Review by: Dr Ella Caine – Midwife, Norfolk Published by Routledge Publication date: 2021 Format: Paperback 296pp RRP: £34.99 ISBN: 978-0367259259 The importance this book has for illuminating the broad context of midwifery care is clear. The authors are based […]
Book Review: Stories in Midwifery: Reflection, Inquiry, Action
Book Review: Stories in Midwifery: Reflection, Inquiry, Action by Allison Cummins, Katharine Gillett, Karen McLaughlin, Loretta Musgrave, Jessica Wood Review by: Sheena McChlery – Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Notre Dame Australia Published by Elsevier Publication date: 2023 Format: Paperback 176pp RRP: AUD$ 47.19 ISBN: 978-0729544559 As a midwifery educator, I’m always excited to […]
Book Review: Closure: by Becky Read and Nadine Edwards
Book Review: Closure by Becky Read and Nadine Edwards Review by: Maddie McMahon – Doula and Infant Feeding Specialist Published by Pinter & Martin Publication date: 2023 Format: Paperback RRP: £14.99 ISBN: 978-1780667850 Closure is a story that has been told before. Like other witch- hunt narratives, it is heart-breaking reading. The story of the […]
Book Review: Mobile Midwives Transforming Birth Options A Memoir by Marge Foley
Book Review: Mobile Midwives Transforming Birth Options A Memoir by Marge Foley Review by: Shelley Macmillan – Midwife and lecturer Publication date: 2022 Format: Paperback 262pp RRP: $26.24 ISBN: 978-0645293302 As an avid audiobook listener on my two-hour commute, I was looking forward to actually reading this memoir during a week of leave. Mobile Midwives […]
Political Action and Protest – Midwifery in 2023
Political Action and Protest – Midwifery in 2023 Laura Godfrey-Isaacs (she/her) – Midwife, artist and activist, King’s College Hospital Instagram @godfrey_isaacs How can we respond to what is a dire and worsening state of midwifery and maternity services in the UK? At times, I have been feeling hopeless and powerless in the face of what […]
Returning to Work Following Pregnancy Loss: A Midwife’s Perspective
Returning to Work Following Pregnancy Loss: A Midwife’s Perspective Beatrice Bennett (she/her) – Registered Midwife Twitter and Instagram @midwifebea Published in The Student Midwife Volume 6 Issue 1 January 2023, Pages 15-18 https://doi.org/10.55975/UWFC9624 Summary This article explores a midwife’s experience of returning to work after pregnancy loss. It discusses types of pregnancy loss, support for […]
Celebration of Midwifery
Celebration of Midwifery Pia Elena Caprioli (she/her) – NQM, Lothian Homebirth Team Instagram @pi_el_ca Twitter @caprioli_pia Introduction In this blog, Pia Caprioli shares a poem written just before qualifying as a midwife from Robert Gordon University. She presented this poem as an expressive piece representing her midwifery philosophy on her last day on campus, when […]
Midwifery as a Calling. What is the Cost?
Midwifery as a Calling. What is the Cost? Siobhan Callaghan (she/her) – Second-year student midwife Instagram @siobhan_midwifeinthemaking Summary In this blog, I have been reflecting on midwifery as a vocation and how vocational occupations require an element of self-sacrifice. I have considered the sacrifices that I have personally made so far, and this has led […]
Utilising Social Media in Midwifery Education
Utilising Social Media in Midwifery Education Olamide Solanke (she/her) – Assistant Lecturer in Midwifery, Birmingham City University Instagram @midwivesagainstracism Samuel Todd Birth – Centre Manager at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; previously Lecturer in Midwifery at Birmingham City University. Twitter @samueltodd16 Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 25 Issue 10 November 2022, Pages […]