So sorry not to be there! Thinking of you all +++ So brilliant to see this ground-breaking report published. Congratulations on your leadership of this, Fran✨✨✨#MidwiferyEd4SDGs #MidwiferyEducation #evidence

.⁦@PeteSalama⁩ says World Health Organization (WHO) is absolutely committed to having women, children and adolescents right at the center of its #UHC agenda and midwives are right at the centre of this and deserve to be . MidwiferyEd4SDGs #HealthForAll

Wonderful to see #LancetMidwifery findings informing the global Action Plan for midwifery education! #MidwiferyEd4SDGs richard horton The Lancet Global Health International Confederation of Midwives Caroline Homer Petra ten Hoope ThePractisingMidwife Nursing and Midwifery Council

Mary Renfrew denise cohen And to you too Mary! We are all breathless, excited and full of joy. And hope for the future of midwifery. Thank you all for your courage and conviction - and your bright intelligent minds and leadership International Confederation of Midwives Petra ten Hoope @FrankaCadee @SallyPairman

EXCITING! Our new book Squaring the Circle will be launched next month at @NormalBirthConf amazon.co.uk/Squaring-Circl… with more than 60 chapter authors we hope to rock the birth world Hannah Dahlen AM Fran McConville Neel Shah, MD @fairsnape @FrankaCadee Susan Bewley @BerksMaternity

RT UNFPA "RT FrankaCadee: THANK YOU 🙏🏽 for the tireless actions UNFPA for #women and #midwives globally. Atayeshe “We are living through times of political polarisation where the right to sexual and reproductive rights are endangered...there will b… pic.x.com/eFU5Lvvbi7"

At #WHA72, we’re pushing for health financing that reduces gender inequities. Too often girls and women don’t get the services they need due to gender-related biases, norms, and financial barriers. #GenderUHC

IMPORTANT! Symposium for Global Action to Support Normal Birth at #NormalBirth19 in Grange next month ✅ Mary Newburn Maria Healy @FrankaCadee Lesley Kay @SagefemmeSB Lesley Page CBE oli silverwood-cope (she/her) Raymond De Vries Toyin Saraki Annie Kippax International Confederation of Midwives bit.ly/2JvXAbC

Listen! If we are to end sexual and gender based violence in #humanitarian emergencies we need to listen to, involve and invest in the women focused organizations on the frontline. They know, act and lift. #Humanitarian4Her #EndSGBVOslo

“Healthy families are created by choice not by chance.” – Dr. Nafis Sadik #TBT to a transformative moment 25 years ago in Cairo when former UNFPA chief and leading architect of #ICPD asserted that women should have full control over their bodies and futures 📢 #ICPD25 #UNFPA50

The sun is rising and so are we. Arrived in #Vancouver for #WD2019 to put the status quo on notice. A gender equal world is a better world for all. And we will not go backward.

At the Women Deliver 2019 Conference we will redefine power and show: ✅ how we can all use power for good ✅ the power of #GenderEquality, ✅ that a gender equal world is healthier, wealthier and more peaceful. telegraph.co.uk/news/0/not-lik… #WD2019

Many congratulations, Helga. Soooooo very much deserved❣️❣️❣️

Another ⁦HRP⁩ to impact👉 Cervical dilatation patterns of low risk women with normal perinatal outcomes: a systematic review (BJOG) 👉⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience👉Reduced labour interventions

We are rising! The Women Deliver 2019 Conference was not a Summit but a fueling station for the way forward for #GenderEquality - and here is what’s next: youtu.be/1HX16BNmzBQ #WD2019 #ThePowerOf Women Deliver

Midwives in Syria, practising amongst conflict. all4maternity ThePractisingMidwife 😞 ‘We are calling upon all midwifery organizations of the world to recognize the situation of our people, who are burning. Help us.” Open access post all4maternity.com/midwifery-in-t…

Anniversaries are strange things. I guess as the years go by the anniversary of Jo’s death will become more significant but our family feels our loss everyday& today just feels like another day with our family incomplete & Jo’s joyful presence missing. Life still feels muted.

ICM President @FrankaCadee: "I urge midwives to stop being well-behaved and to take on their duty to advocate for women's right to a good birth."

Hear hear!!

Egg-laying hens are suffering in cruel cages. It’s time to hold corporations accountable for this abuse! Join me in signing the petition calling on corporations to eliminate cages! actnow.thehumaneleague.org/end-cages/ via The Humane League