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Right-first-time Peezy Midstream means reliable MSU, fewer unnecessary antibiotics, repeat tests and appointments. Peezy Midstream is availbale on the NHS Supply Chain. https://tinyurl.com/2npft92w Visit https://forte-medical.co.uk/

NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Iron & Women’s Health Across the Life Course
By Zainab Sarwar, Independent Midwife.

https://www.all4maternity.com/iron-and-womens-health-across-the-life-course/

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💫 We are thrilled to welcome and to share with you Amanda Firth - our new Editor in Chief!

Amanda is a midwife, researcher and educator with a passion and commitment to addressing health inequalities faced by women, birthing people and families.

Despite every global guideline recommending midstream urine (MSU) in pregnancy, there’s never been a reliable procedure to ensure accurate collection… until now.
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Dilemmas and Decision Making in Midwifery – A Practice-Based Approach, Kenda Crozier & Julia Hubbard and reviewed by Julia Andrew, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHSFT.

https://www.all4maternity.com/book-review-dilemmas-and-decision-making-in-midwifery-a-practice-based-approach/

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
https://www.all4maternity.com/enabling-access-to-enhanced-care-models-for-vulnerable-women/

MIDWIVES! You know precision in midstream urine testing is key...
You can make truly accurate dipstick judgements based on genuine MSU - which is diagnostic liquid gold 💧
Right-first-time Peezy Midstream — now on NHS Supply Chain https://tinyurl.com/2npft92w

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The September Issue of The Practising Midwife is here!
This month we explore the theme: “Being Present” — in practice, in education, and in global collaboration. The issue is packed with global midwifery knowledge!
#LoveTPM #Midwives #Midwifery

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News of a ‘giant’ baby boy is all over TikTok. Here’s what women really need to know Stories of big babies might make women all over the world cross their legs. But how common are big babies, and does their birth always lead to complications?

An article I published today in the Conversation theconversation.com/news-of-a-gi...

Collaboration in action - for better maternity care. Our very own CEO Anna Byrom with Laura-Rose Thorogood CEO of Make Birth Better @makebirthbetter

@MidwiferyForum

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Accurate antenatal urine samples matter!

They reduce retests, false positives & unnecessary antibiotics — saving NHS time, money & protecting women & babies. 💙

Save NHS budgets with precision MSU collection.
Peezy Midstream is on NHSSC.
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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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Head of Midwifery Hannah Horne's words are a call to all midwives and students: find your people, hold on to your passion, and never forget the heart of midwifery.

https://www.all4maternity.com/reflecting-on-my-career/

#Midwifery #AddressingTheCrisis #BirthRights #MakeBirthBetter #MidwivesMatter

Did you see it? July issue is here!

🌟Our unique midwifery journal is evidence-based and practice-focused. It’s the ONLY academic journal owned by midwives!

👀 Here’s a peek. Members it’s online ready to read, and may be dropping through your door 🚪

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Great to be here at #EthiadStadium in Manchester for the @midwiferyforum.bsky.social with fabulous midwives and students - sharing resources and love!
@sheenabyrom.bsky.social

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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What a fabulous opportunity for us to be with student midwives, nurses, and others at this important event at Salford University yesterday.
Sharing our unique, evidence-based and accessible resources and learning from other disciplines 👏🏽

Thank you for making us welcome!

All4Maternity Midwife Leaders Anna and Sheena Byrom are delighted and honoured to be selected as Executive Sponsors for the ICM Midwife Leaders Programme ❤️

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WHAT ABOUT BABY SLEEP?

Midwife @sheena_byrom had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Professor Helen Ball, world-leading expert on infant sleep and Director of the Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre

Podcast episode 42 is here ⬇️ www.spreaker.com/episode/42-h...

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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We’re on our way to @midwives_rcm conference 2025 & we’re remembering the wonderful time we had last year! In Liverpool - we LOVED connecting with so many midwives, student midwives & maternity support workers

Come and see us if you’re going to be there tomorrow and Thursday, we’re on stand 40B!

Calling all delegates, midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers attending the @midwives_rcm Conference in Birmingham next week - only FOUR days to go!

Come and find us at Stand 40B we have lots to share (including hugs) 🤗 ❤️🌺

Being in a sold-out theatre watching #ScenesfromLostMothers has been incredible. 2 see shifts in public opinion was what we hoped for. We can & will stop sending pregnant women to prison. Thanks 2 amazing @cleanbrk.bsky.social cast & team ❤️
@herts.ac.uk @rcm.org.uk @birthcompanions.bsky.social

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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Our TPM Australia edition is here! ‘Caring Connections’ is the theme and we warmly welcome our new Editor Bridget Ferguson. An evidence-based midwifery journal with a unique style - perfect for keeping informed and inspired 💫

www.all4maternity.com/australia/

If you wish to read this article and back copies of our journals too - come and join us!

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Have you read Ina May's book? Did it influence you or your practice at all?

The book was radical in its time, being an exploration, primer and guidebook for practitioners that focused on out-of-hospital, holistic and spiritual birthing care, driven by a message of love.

In this article, three midwives discuss the impact and messages of the book, and its relevance today.

Have you ever heard of Ina May Gaskin or read Spiritual Midwifery?

We featured the book in the latest issue of TPM. For many midwives, Ina May Gaskin’s classic Work, Spiritual Midwifery, offered an insight into ways of knowing & practising outside of the boundaries of medicalised maternity care.