The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

Recorded live at the Scotland Maternity & Midwifery Festival on Tuesday 23rd November, 2021. Cass McNamara , Chief Executive, Birthsparks Ltd. - Midwives as Innovators Leah Hazard , Author, ‘Hard Pushed’ - Midwifing the Midwife Watch the presentations:  facebook.com/midwiferyforum/live

COVID-19 has impacted hugely on all of us, and in particular those in the health services. Maternity Services underwent massive changes in efforts to reduce virus transmission. These changes and adaptations affected midwives, health visitors and women and their families. In this hour, Professor Amy Brown shares some of her research into the experiences of woman and babies and midwives and health v...

Highlights from the Student Midwife Experience Festival 2021  International perspective - Fran McConville, Midwifery Adviser, World Health Organisation Keynote presentation: What we do ripples through generations - Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE , Chief Midwifery Officer for England, NHS England/Improvement

The Student Midwife Festival pre-programme - get to know everything about the festival day.   Student Midwife Experience Festival | Wed 10 Nov, Live & On Demand | FREE | http://smef-2021.eventbrite.com/   We need at least 3500 more midwives in the UK, and recruitment to become a midwife remains quite strong – which can make it difficult to apply!   In this Maternity and Midwifer...

This week we’re exploring the needs and experiences of student midwives and how to enable effective learning environments to transform practice. International, national and local perspectives will be examined and plans for the future shared. Hosted by: Dr Anna Byrom , Creative Director, All4Maternity Contributions from: Caitlin Wilson , Consultant Midwife, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust/...

In this session, we look at how Continuity of Care can be organised, hearing from midwives about how they have engaged with CoC models, and what it has meant for their day-to-day practice. This is very much the ‘nuts and bolts’ of continuity. Episode 7 of Series 5 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Consultant and Educationalist Contributions from: · Dr Tracey C...

This week we are looking at how midwives can meet the needs of Afghan women, especially in the context of the recent events in Afghanistan. We will consider how midwives can work with women and families to ensure their health, safety and well being. This week is also Baby Loss Awareness week, and we are going to consider the impact of baby loss on the women and families, and also on midwives and t...

In this session, we look at how Continuity of Care can be organised, hearing from midwives about how they have engaged with CoC models, and what it has meant for their day-to-day practice. This is very much the ‘nuts and bolts’ of continuity. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald , Midwifery Consultant and Educationalist Contributions from: Natalie Corden , Continuity Midwife; Blogger Dr Tracey Cooper MBE , Re...

What is the microbiome and why does it matter?  Let the experts explain! Episode 4 of season 5 of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour Contributions from: Dr Emer Gilligan , Regulatory Manager, WaterWipes Claire Ryan , Midwife; Medical Science Liaison, WaterWipes Hosted by: Sue Macdonald , Midwifery Consultant and Educationalist In partnership with WaterWipes | https://www.waterwipes.com/

Midwives have always been busy and over this last year, have been, and felt, even more so. With some staff redeployed, and some off sick, sometimes midwives are having to balance their workload and ensuring safe and high quality care for mothers and babies, with their own physiological and psychological well-being, even to the extent of not being able to have a drink of water, or have a short brea...

Tune in for three exceptional presentations from our first hybrid festival (part digital, part in-person in Cardiff City Stadium), which took place this week. Abi Holmes - Keynote: Midwives - role models for health Elliott Rae - Dads, childbirth trauma and PTSD Billie Hunter CBE & Joanne Cull - Reflections on the Work, Health and Emotional Lives of Midwives (WHELM) Study

Episode 1 of Season 5 of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour.  Welcome back! Dr Jacqui Williams & Verena Wallace MBE from the NMC - The Language of the New Midwifery Standards  Hosted by Dr Jenny Hall .   https://www.maternityandmidwifery.co.uk  https://www.matflix.co.uk Watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMu9tBz7G1GhANk7FsNcSYJVriFufTH3g

Nurturing and Caring for the Team   Episode 13 of Series 4 of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour   Hosted By: Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery   Contributions from:  Dr Jan Smith, Psychologist, Healthy You Ltd Kara Davies, Midwives in Mind Dr Tina South, Midwives in Mind   Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk &n...

International trends: Highlights from the 32nd International Confederation of Midwives Congress Hosted by: Neil Stewart , Editorial Director, Maternity and Midwifery Forum Contributions from : Kaveri Mayra , Postgraduate Research Student for Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton Dianne Garland , Midwifery Consultant, Director for Clinical Governance, Waterbirth International;...

It is estimated that 7 million women in the UK suffer from urinary incontinence, usually during and after pregnancy and childbirth, yet, for many years it has been an under reported and under treated condition. Following on from the recent welcome announcement that the NHS will be setting up pelvic health clinics, our two expert speakers will discuss the issues around pelvic health, and suggest pr...

About 30,000 women a year, according to the most recent research, experience birth trauma in the UK. This episode will explore birth trauma, its impact on women and their families, and how practitioners can reduce the risk of trauma and support affected women. With Rachael McGrath, Volunteer Manager, Birth Trauma Association and Dr Maeve O’Connell, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University. The Birth Tr...

The Getting over the Bump Service at St George’s is the only collaborative midwife/occupational therapy service in the UK that works in partnership with women with additional needs to plan for pregnancy, birth and early parenting. This episode will focus on the need for joined up, integrated services for pregnant and childbearing women with a disability, to ensure that their additional needs are p...

The recently published NICE Guideline on Postnatal Care is an essential tool and support for midwives and students in providing evidence based and appropriate care to women, pregnant people, their babies and families. This episode is an opportunity to hear how these were developed and key messages from the publication. Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-edit...

The menopause will happen to all women and as a largely female profession midwives and student midwives need to know about it, for their own wellbeing and to support women and families who may request information and support. Recent media coverage of the topic has been helpful in identifying some of the issues that women face at this time of their lives, some of the challenges and stigma women fac...

Professor Amy Brown is well known for her humorous and forthright approach to dissecting modern day media narratives and cultural pressures around motherhood and infant feeding. Her clear presentation of evidence and research will provide a picture of some of the difficulties facing new mums and how midwives can support them in the first few weeks of motherhood. Episode 6 of Series 4 of the Matern...

This week’s episode of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour will focus on the newborn will explore the midwife’s role in newborn assessment and fetal physiology and monitoring. With expert speakers - Dr Mary Sheridan BEM, Newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) Lead and Midwifery Lecturer, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London and Sorcha Magee, Specialist Fetal W...

Episode 4: International Day of the Midwife - with Professor Lesley Page CBE, Visiting Professor in Midwifery at King’s College, London and Adjunct Professor at UTS and Griffith University, Australia and Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Senior Lecturer at London South Bank As part of today’s IDM celebrations, tonight’s episode will explore the contemporary roles and challenges midwives face and manage that...

Listen for an overview of All 4 Maternity’s new eLearn modules on culture, race and bias in midwifery practice from the Student Midwife Journal’s Editor in Chief, Alicia Burnett, and founding partner of MyMidwivesUK, Sheridan Thomas. This episode is guest-hosted by Neil Stewart, Editorial Director of the Maternity & Midwifery Forum. Access the e-learning modules here: https://www.all4maternity...

Remember the knitted midwives of 2016? This hour explores creativity – including crafting, quilting and knitting. These skills are not merely practical and relaxing hobbies, but can be linked to academic study, reflection on practice and as a means of action and illustration of points. The knitted midwives, a project led by Jenny and Lindsay in 2016, was to illustrate a political point that there...

How important is it to be able to share and talk about issues within midwifery – the stresses, and the joys, challenges and the achievements? In this time of pandemic, rapidly growing information and changing services, it is crucial for midwives to be able to communicate and to be kept up-to-date through books, journals and, of course, social media.  In this hour, Nat and Leah, both experienc...