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So proud to support a couple through a healing repeat Caesarean with a family centred operative birth. After a debrief helped them understand their previous experience, I was able to ensure their son’s birth was joyous and celebratory. #birth #midwifery #PatientCare

“Women have been shamed for having caesareans, but they have also been shamed for wanting births with minimum intervention — as though they are selfish and spoilt for seeking control over such an extreme situation”

In a few weeks it will be 7 whole years since my first and only suicide attempt. I can’t begin to explain the growth and healing I have endured in that time period. Life isn’t perfect all the time but I am SO THANKFUL to be alive. No dark time is forever. I’m proud of myself 🧡

New Possibilities ✨ Sally ✨ RM, BSc(hons),MSc, PMA, @natboxall Julia Andrew Progress Theatre New Possibilities Excellent! I’ll swap that into my presentation for Wednesay. And did you know they set up a new home births team as a result of the event? And a write up on AcademyOfFabStuff That’s what I call action! 💥 #MatExp #WhoseShoes #homebirth

It's been a real privilege to support this work Sands - baby loss charity 💜🧡

Thank you for your faith Alice! Keeps us going ...

When we teach the @OptiBreech physiological breech birth course, I am struck by how many obstetric colleagues come up to me in the break to express their sheer relief. Their instincts have been telling them, Put your hands on, Help the baby ...

... but our national guidance has been telling them, Keep your hands OFF the breech, you will cause harm, you will cause injury. We teach an active approach -- creating optimal conditions for an unassisted birth, swift, physiologically sound help when needed.

In the absence of any evidence that supine / 'Hands off the breech' dogma improves outcomes, guidance needs to change. @OptiBreech methods need to be tested in a substantive clinical trial. Here's how you can help ensure this happens: optibreech.uk/2024/01/22/opt…

These are our most current analysed outcome data: openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/articles/3-61/…

And the results of our pilot trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@hazard_leah but attacking midwives for guidelines written by NICE is very odd If people have a problem, why not express it to NICE?

Delighted to share the main findings from my PhD research into care following altered fetal movement in two UK maternity units. Many thanks to my supervisors and co-authors Lucy Smith Natalie Armstrong bit.ly/4a6rX0v SAPPHIRE research UoL Population Health Sciences UoN_Midwifery

Jon Dorling & I would 💜to hear health professionals' views on a clinical trial comparing timing of cord clamping in very preterm infants who need resuscitation at birth. Can you spare a few mins to complete a short survey? forms.office.com/e/q73Xb9Ej9T 1/3

Listen to "Safe care for women planning a vaginal birth after a previous caesarean section" by The OptiBirth Podcast. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/optib…

Promoting sleep and rest of infants using nonpharmacological... : JBI Evidence Implementation ping ⁦minesh.khashu (tweeting in individual capacity)⁩ ⁦Carmel McC MBE⁩ #neonate #sleep #evidence #implementationScience ⁦GlobalVillageMidwife⁩ journals.lww.com/ijebh/fulltext…

It’s #RestartAHeart day ❤️ Did you know, there are over 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK. And tragically, less than 1 in 10 people survive. We want to change that! Knowing CPR and how to use a defibrillator can more than double a person's

Perineal outcomes and breech births: Live Webinar on Mon 9 Dec, 15.00 GMT, through your personal or institutional OptiBreech Academy subscription. Manually protect, or not? If so, how? The role of episiotomy, and the alternatives? How do we counsel women about risks and options?

We'll be including the latest @OptiBreech evidence makingbirthsafer.optibreech.uk/course/optibre…