The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

The importance of environment and the support of the clinical team is well known for assisting students, and qualified staff to develop a learning culture, thus improving the information, support and care to women, babies and families in their journey through pregnancy through to motherhood and early parenting.

In this hour, we will explore the ICM Global Midwifery education standards, and share knowledge and experience of how the clinical environment can be influenced and improved towards this aim.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Dr Maeve O Connell, Assistant Professor Midwifery, Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Laura Moya Falcon, Clinical Midwife Specialist, Hamad Medical Corporation

Biography

Dr Maeve O'Connell

Assistant Professor Midwifery, Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Maeve O’Connell is Registered Midwife and Nurse with a PhD on fear of childbirth. Maeve has a wide range of clinical experience from London and Ireland. Her interests are care of high risk women and intrapartum care. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing in Midwifery at RCSI which was awarded in recognition of her exceptional commitment, dedication and contribution in Midwifery.

Laura Moya Falcon

Clinical Midwife Specialist, Hamad Medical Corporation

Laura has 23 years of experience as a midwife. She studied in Middlesex university and worked in London for 6 years. From the begging of her career she was passionate about Birth Centers, waterbirth community Midwifery and breastfeeding. Back in Spain, she was the founder and director of Blossom Maternal Centre, a pioneer of its kind in providing holistic care, including homebirth. She has also worked as an Associate Midwifery Lecturer and the Breastfeeding Master Program at the University of Las Palmas. At the same time, Laura was a co-organizer and speaker at multiple national and internationals conferences and workshops for health professional, midwives and families. Throughout her career, she had been actively involved in TV, radio, newspapers and health magazines to promote midwifery model of care, physiological birth and empowering women.

She is currently working as a clinical midwife specialist in Qatar creating and supporting Midwifery Led Services and most recently leading the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Project. She collaborates with the Perinatal Mental Health Team, educational team, programs and policies development and quality improvement initiatives. Laura has also created an innovative simulation-based teaching program for Breastfeeding skills competencies.

With her recent finalized research COVID 19 Mothers infant feeding practices, mother baby bonding and postnatal care experiences in Qatar the brings the attention to the importance of the perinatal period for maternal and baby mental health.

Achieving a work-life balance as a midwife is a personal and a service challenge.

How to approach your own work life choices in your career, addressing stress, accessing support and insight into personal strategies from experts.

The demands of a service with staff shortages, a changing demographic of mothers with more complex conditions, the pressures and fear of errors.

Looking after yourself so you can look after others. Don't ignore the pressure, tackle the issue, learn from the best.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Dianne Garland, Midwifery Consultant and Childbirth Author

Professor Holly Blake, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham; co-editor ‘Health and wellbeing at work for Nurses and Midwives’

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Is being a midwife, and staying in midwifery centred on emotional intelligence and compassion or all about money?

In the first of series 13, we explore two midwifery issues which have an impact on how we as midwives function, and in terms of midwives short and long term well-being in the health service.

We know how stressful the maternity services landscape can be, and this is often because staffing levels impact on ability to be ‘with women’. A recent study into utilizing an educational programme on Emotional Intelligence (EI) has produced some interesting findings, with benefits for women, and midwives. In addition, recent pay disputes within the NHS alongside the increases in cost of living do impact on midwives. So what effect does pay and reward have on midwives, and importantly on whether they stay in midwifery?

We are joined by Dr Mo Tabib who will share her recent work into Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Stella Nwogo who will share her work into pay, reward and it effect on midwifery staff retention.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Dr Mo Tabib, Midwifery Lecturer, Robert Gordon University

Stella Nwogu, Matron, Newham University Hospital – Barts Health NHS Trust

Biography

Dr Mo Tabib

Mo Tabib is a midwifery lecturer at Robert Gordon University in Scotland. She has worked in a range of roles as a hospital, community, independent and research midwife, prior to embarking an academic role. Mo’s current research interests and publications are focused on the influence of the educational interventions on the wellbeing of expectant parents, future and current midwives.

Stella Nwogu

Stella is a registered nurse and midwife with a passion for the well-being, professional development of healthcare workforce and positive outcomes for our service users.

She has gained experience and expertise in pre and post midwifery education and practice development. As a recruitment and retention lead, she utilised her impeccable communication skills to ensure the provision of the right staff with the right skills in the right clinical settings.

She also has acquired knowledge and skills in project management, worked with relevant stakeholders in the redesigning of antenatal and postnatal care pathways in order to reduce maternity health inequalities and to improve experience for women and birthing people in her local community.

She has completed a Masters degree programme with Distinction in Human resource management.

She is privileged to have published an article titled "Review of the effectiveness of pay & reward and its impact on midwifery staff retention". This article has highlighted the need for improvement in the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of staff, career development and environmental factors.

She is currently the Maternity Matron for Inpatients, Helpline, ANC, Screening, Infant feeding and Immunisation teams.

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Series 12 - Episode 10: Anti-oppressive practice in midwifery and maternity services

As we come to the end of Season 12, we have an opportunity to reflect on oppression in midwifery practice and maternity services and how we all, as individuals, can reflect on our own attitudes and behaviours in order to counter bias and address social injustice, exclusion and discrimination.

We are delighted to welcome Alys Einion who will guide us through the complexities towards improving our practice and our relationships with women, families, and the whole healthcare team

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Dr Alys Einion, Associate Professor, Author; Editor-in-Chief, The Practising Midwife Journal

Biography

Dr Alys Einion

I am a midwife and midwife academic, teacher and researcher. I am a novelist and prolific writer. The founder of Centred Birth Hypnobirthing, I am a hypnotherapist, complementary therapist and activist for Gender Equality. I am currently engaged in research on inclusive midwifery practice and education, and decolonisation of midwifery.

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An important part of a student’s journey to become a midwife lies in learning theoretical and clinical skills. In this session experienced midwifery lecturers, Lindsey Rose and Rosy Jordan alongside student midwife Amy Solt share how the assessment process works, how to prepare for assessment, what supervisors are looking for and getting used to completing the paperwork.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Rosy Jordan, Senior Lecturer Practitioner, Anglia Ruskin University

Lindsey Rose, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Anglia Ruskin University

Amy Solt, Student Representative

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In this session focusing on pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, our two speakers, Anja Johansen-Bibby, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Lead for Maternal Medicine at Milton Keyes University Hospital and Layla Lavallee Registered Midwife and NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, discuss care during labour and birth, sharing the latest evidence and research for ensuring high quality maternity and newborn care. This will include exploring ongoing and follow up care for women after birth and the postnatal period.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Layla Lavallee, Registered Midwife and NIHR Doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

Anja Johansen-Bibby, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Lead for Maternal Medicine, Milton Keynes University Hospital

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Pregnant women with substance dependency are more likely to lead multi-layered, psychologically and socially complex lives and can be distrustful of mainstream services. Dr Elaine Moore, a retired midwife from Ayrshire, Scotland, joins us to talk about continuity of care and its value to the building and maintenance of relationships between safeguarding midwives and pregnant women with substance dependency. The study also explored the impact of these relationships on midwives and how this affected their interactions with the wider multidisciplinary, multiagency team.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Dr Elaine Moore, Retired Midwife, Ayrshire, Scotland

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This week we are exploring some alternatives in managing pain in labour. We have two leading practitioners presenting two strategies:

1.The use of combs during labour

2. Introduction to Reflexology in Pregnancy and Birth that may be useful for some women, and highlighting what midwives need to know too.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

The use of combs during labour

Amanda Redford, Midwife, Acupuncturist, Maternity and Fertility Complementary Therapy Specialist

Introduction to Reflexology in Pregnancy and Birth

Dr Denise Tiran, CEO / Education Director, Expectancy; Visiting Professor, Qingdao Huikang School of Midwifery, Shanghai, China

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In this hour, Florence Wilcock, obstetrician and mum, and midwives Deepa Santosh and Helen Green explore how we can improve the experience of women, their babies and families as they pass through the maternity services.

How does our perspective impact on our view, and the way we provide care, and how can we truly make the service kinder, more individualised and safer for all involved?

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert; Host and Curator, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals/Midwifery Hour, Editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:

Simple things count; The lithotomy challenge & other ideas to improve maternity experience

Florence Wilcock, Consultant Obstetrician, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Podcast Host, The Obs Pod

Deepa Santhosh, The Desi Midwife

Helen Green, Preceptorship Clinical Support Midwife, Kingston Hospital NHS

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