I loved chatting with Thando Zwane - 'Oxytocin Agents', Love and Courage
You can listen here! www.spreaker.com/episode/in-c...

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I can’t see ‘add video’ function now on Bluesky?

Are you a midwife who has significant experience of using interpreters to discuss mental health with women?

How do you do that effectively? 🤔. Would you be willing to share those experiences and help help shape future good practice recommendations? 🤔

Contact me 4 more info…

Enabling Access to Enhanced Care Models for Vulnerable Women
can transform outcomes for childbearing women but only if barriers to access are removed.
Read Research Unwrapped in the latest issue #TPM
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A lost piece of midwifery history - I need your help please.. Last month I visited our local library to ask the history department if they had any information about a midwife who practised in our town during the 1940s and 50s.

A lost piece of midwifery history - I need your help please..
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How times have changed: breastfeeding support in the 1970s…

Here I am, breastfeeding our CEO! @all4maternity.bsky.social

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The reduction in midwife-led options for childbirth and the rise in medical interventions.

We are hosting the first seminar for the Midwifery and Maternity Birth Collective TOMORROW evening, with Soo Downe, Andrew Weeks, Claire Feeley and Anna Horn.

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I was sorry to miss the official launch of this important book - what a joy it was to contribute to the content, with my daughter Anna.

#MidwiferyLove

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What a huge privilege. Thank you @internationalmidwives.org ❤️ for the opportunity.

Gorgeous!

Look who I met up with, by chance, in San Sebastián, Spain, yesterday! Soo Downe, for those of you who don’t know her, she’s a professor of midwifery. And my buddy and advocate.

Soo is cycling with her partner, and happened to be close by. Incredible. We had two hours of non-stop chatter.

What a beautiful account from a retired midwife, now in a care home, remembering special times.

“It was such a wonderful job.” Patricia Walcott-Lee reflects on her journey from Jamaica to South London, delivering joy & babies along the way.

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A Clique, not a Click An age old dilemma

I keep forgetting to post here. Yet I hear this is the place to be - Blue Sky.

Tonight I wrote a post on my Substack account in response to a shocking but not uncommon message from a student midwife on a Facebook group.

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And thank you to YOU Emma!

This is Collioure - France. A wee trip in our camper!

In my @all4maternity.bsky.social hoodie in France - feeling joyous after hearing good news from our son. He has a new job!

Sharing happiness this evening ❤️

‘We have a national crisis. Some call it a perfect storm. If midwifery-led services are scaled back, more women will be referred to obstetric-led units unnecessarily’.

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Wearing my gifted #BeMoreLaura hoodie reminded me of the evening I met Laura’s parents and listened to their journey of love and loss - and courage.

What a family ❤️

www.bemorelaura.com

Do you have a link Alison please?

I’ve been sharing this on many platforms - a podcast episode about the important
maternity review of NI, lead by a remarkable Prof of Midwifery @maryrenfrew.bsky.social 🙏🏽

Our eldest granddaughter is 19 today - and we are proud! Happy Birthday Minnie!

Calabash Cafe registration information: Birth Wars Documentary by Janet Jarman, held twice, Apr 23 2025 2 am EDT, Apr 24, 2025 11 am EDT (in Spanish). Register at qmnc.org Free for members. Membership is free. Join now!

🎥 Join us & the Birth Wars filmmaking team for a screening & discussion of power struggles shaping birth in Mexico—and the bridges that could save lives.
🗓 April 23 & 24 | Free for members
➡️ Register now→ www.qmnc.org/about-qmnc/calabash-cafe/
➡️ Join QMNC→ www.qmnc.org
#BirthWars #QMNC #Calabash

Social Media Magic Is not something I say often....

A meeting on X (Twitter) how can that be magic?

It was, a certain kind of ‘it was meant to be’ magic. And a real friendship formed from one like and share.

#BeMoreLaura

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Thank you so much 💕

There’s just not enough credit given for all you do. You’re doing so much and trying hard. Not everyone gets how hard you work to be functioning. So here’s a big thank you from me to you. Picture by Beth Evans pastel colours black writing.

Thank you for all your #kindness & all you do! 🧡

#nurses #midwives #healthcare #paramedics #doctors

@kathevans2.bsky.social @sheenabyrom.bsky.social @fwmaternity.bsky.social @karenellab.bsky.social @racheln76.bsky.social @midwifekookie.bsky.social @nurseninapa.bsky.social

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Will always be one of the most rewarding experiences of my career - supporting midwives in Bulgaria 💕

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Picture by art of brilliance Small little circle with a sign saying someone Bigger bright sunshine :-) with a sign saying someone after you check in with them Yellow circles on a blue background

“Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.” Brené Brown

Just checking in to see how you are…Sending positive ripples your way today.

Because sometimes, the smallest check-in can mean the most.🧡

#kindness #positivity #connection

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Gosh I’ve not been keeping up with posting here - too many platforms!

Is there not a poll function here, so I can ask questions?

Always a treat! #Spring

The women in this photo are my older sisters. We were five girls. I never experienced gender inequality - I wasn’t even aware of it. I now know something different but because of them I’m totally able to be who I want to be, without prejudice, most of the time. This is my sister’s wedding. I am 10