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February 02, 2024 12.3 An ABC of Eclampsia
Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia continue to be major causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity and can adversely impact on the experience of women and their families. The charity, Action of Pre-eclampsia (APEC), provides support to women, families, and to professionals. In this session our two speakers, Hsu Chong and Erum Khan, will be exploring the most recent research and evidence around pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
Dr Erum Khan will present an ABC of Eclampsia sharing research and evidence around eclampsia and how the condition can be recognised; why it is important to do this early and the role of a multi-professional approach to care.
Dr Hsu Chong will then explore Pre-eclampsia: signs and symptoms, discuss the role of clinicians in ensuring women have clear knowledge of the signs and symptoms of pre-eclampsia and when to escalate care.

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

Contribution from:

Dr Erum Khan, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, National Senior Maternity Advisor to NHSR; Specialist Maternity Advisor to CQC; RCOG patient Safety Committee member
Hsu Chong, Consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Marcus Green, Chief Executive Officer, Action on Pre-eclampsia

Biographies
Dr Erum Khan
Erum Khan. Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at MKUH with an interest in high-risk pregnancy and intrapartum care. Also interested in clinical governance and the importance of non-technical skills in provision of good quality clinical care. Currently National Senior Maternity Clinical Advisor at NHSR and RCOG Patient Safety Committe member.

Marcus Green
Marcus is his eighth year as CEO of Action on Pre-eclampsia where he initially focussed on modernising the charity. Latterly he has worked on the continued international development of the charity, the focus on research where we’ve been involved in the publication of around 40 academic papers and on the external affairs and influencing role of APEC.
His career has been varied, starting off working for a political party ending up running the office of a former Health Secretary. He regularly worked alongside senior Ministers and the then Prime Minister. He also developed an interest in the politics of Albania where he was an election observer.
After this he moved into the mainstream of health charities eventually becoming director of a charity for the visually impaired, then CEO of a hospice in the south west of England, which under his leadership grew significantly and built a new multimillion pound hospice.
He then set up a business focussing on supporting charity leaders which is where the personal and professional came together as his wife had pre-eclampsia, it therefore became one of the best decisions of his life to work with APEC.
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1 hr 9 min
January 26, 2024 12.2 International perspectives - looking forward into 2024
In this session we expand our horizons to look at maternity services and midwifery in the world, with the help of our two special presenters : Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Chief Midwife at the International Confederation of Midwives, and Joy Kemp, RCM Fellow.

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

Contribution from:

Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwife, International Confederation of Midwives
Joy Kemp, RCM Fellow
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1 hr
January 19, 2024 12.1 Making care better for women and families

This week we are looking at two important reports: the new MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Confidential Enquiry, and the Sands Listening Project. Both reports focus on the experiences of Black and Asian women and their parents of loss after a stillbirth or neonatal death.
Benash Nazmeen, Assistant Professor in Midwifery, Bradford University, and member of the Enquiry stakeholder group, will explore the MBRRACE report and its implication for midwifery practice. The report compares care reviews for Black and Asian women who have experienced a still birth or neonatal death in comparison to their white counterparts (Draper et al 2023).
Dr Julia Clark, Research Officer from Sands, will share findings from The Sands Listening project, which focusses on the experiences of Black and Asian bereaved parents. This key report, released at the same time as the MBRRACE confidential enquiry, has crucial messages for midwives and the multidisciplinary team. It identifies care that works well, as well as highlighting barriers, biases, and poor care, which might be contributing to ethnicity-related inequalities in baby deaths in the UK.

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

Contribution from:

’Black and Asian women’s experience of stillbirth or neonatal death: The MBRRACE-UK Perinatal confidential Enquiry’
Benash Nazmeen, Assistant Professor in Midwifery, University of Bradford and Co-Director, ASAMidwives

The Sands listening project
Julia Clark, Research Officer, Sands - baby loss charity

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1 hr 11 min
December 15, 202311.13 Christmas Selection Box
As 2023 draws to a close, the final Maternity & Midwifery Hour of 2024 will review the wide range of topics and maternity leaders who have shared their knowledge and passion with us all over the past year, reflect on the challenges facing maternity and midwifery and look forward to 2024 to spotlight just a snapshot of some of the fantastic innovations that are taking place in the service and the dedication of our wonderful practising and student midwives everywhere.

Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery

Joy Kemp, RCM Fellow

Professor Lesley Page CBE, Academic & Midwife; Former President, Royal College of Midwives

Dianne Garland, Midwife Consultant, Midwife Expert

Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, MATFLIX

Dr Anna Byrom, CEO, All4Maternity

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1 hr 13 min
December 08, 202311.12 Contemporary strategies to support women during labour
In this session we are exploring contemporary midwifery care during labour. This includes a presentation on the use of sterile water injections during labour, and labour aromatherapy.
We will explore the impact of the NICE guidelines, the forthcoming RCM guidelines and the recent CQC and Ockenden reviews, and consider how best to inform and support women and their families.
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery

Sterile Water Injections during labour
Wendy Randall, Head of Midwifery, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust
Aromatherapy in Labour: an update
Dr Denise Tiran, CEO/Education Director, Expectancy; Visiting Professor, Qingdao Huikang School of Midwifery Shanghai

Wendy Randall
Wendy is dual registered as a nurse and midwife with a Master’s degree in Public Health and Leadership. In her capacity as a midwife, she has worked in the different remits of a midwife both in primary and secondary care. Prior to her role as Head of Midwifery, Wendy was a consultant midwife for 10 years including a secondment as the consultant midwife lead for the RCM in the Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth programme. Wendy has been recognised nationally for Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation and its contribution to midwifery education and safety. She is passionate about the value of multi-professional team working and education to improve the safety and experience of women and their families through their journey to parenthood.
Dr Denise Tiran
Dr Denise Tiran is an internationally renowned authority on midwifery complementary therapies, having pioneered the subject as a midwifery specialism since the early 1980s. Denise previously worked at the University of Greenwich where, having trained in several therapies, she was given the opportunity to develop the UK’s first practice-based BSc Honours degree in Complementary Therapies. In 2004 she established her own company, Expectancy, which provides a unique range of complementary therapy courses for midwives in the NHS and overseas, as well as a licensing system for midwives wanting to offer therapies in private practice. She has written numerous textbooks, her latest being Complementary Therapies for Postdates Pregnancy (2023) and has revised the last six editions of the Bailliere’s Midwives’ Dictionary. Denise was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Greenwich in 2020 and a prestigious Fellowship from the RCM in 2018 in recognition of her work. She has written four RCM Position Statements on complementary therapies and earlier this year was commissioned by the RCM to write new Guidelines for Midwives using Complementary Therapies, due to be published imminently.

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1 hr 12 min
December 01, 2023 11.11 Tackling Birth Trauma Prevention: Tips, Tools and Actions for all
Birth trauma is often preventable. In this session Perinatal Psychiatrist and Co-founder of Make Birth Better Dr Rebecca Moore and Make Birth Better CEO Nikki Wilson will talk you through tips, tools and actions that every healthcare professional can take to reduce birth trauma. Together with service user voices, Rebecca and Nikki will cover susceptibility to birth trauma, trauma enquiry, consent, communication and more.

Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery

Contribution from:
Nikki Wilson, CEO, Make Birth Better
Dr Rebecca Moore, Founder & Perinatal Psychiatrist, Make Birth Better

Biographies
Nikki Wilson
Nikki has a strong passion for driving social change. Her third sector career has focused on solving strategic challenges and building organisations from scratch including Make Birth Better, 10 of zen, Wings for Life UK and Read International. Nikki runs the ship and shapes the strategy for Make Birth Better and her deep drive comes from her lived experience of birth trauma and postnatal PTSD.

Dr Rebecca Moore
Rebecca works as a Perinatal Psychiatrist in London, dealing with infertility, pregnancy loss, anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma. She’s got experience spanning over twenty years. She developed a particular interest in birth trauma, which led to founding the annual Birth Trauma Conference and Make Birth Better with Emma in 2018.

About Make Birth Better
We are a unique collective of parents and professionals working together to make birth better for all, including the road before and the journey beyond. We exist to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of birth trauma through clinically-led training, support and campaigning.
Birth trauma describes symptoms of trauma relating to birth and/or circumstances around the birth. Between 25-40% of women in the UK find some aspect of their birth traumatic and between 3-8% of women who give birth in the UK will suffer from postnatal PTSD. Birth trauma causes a ripple effect and effects partners and professionals too. We believe that birth can be better. We drive systemic change through the provision of expert-led training including a wide range of free resources.

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1 hr 5 min
November 24, 202311.10 Love and Humanising Childbirth
This will be a conversation between Lesley Page, an experienced midwife who has worked to humanise childbirth over many years, and Clare Wardhaugh whose life has been committed to authentic lived spirituality and an understanding of love and its practice.
Clare and Lesley are working together on a chapter for a forthcoming book, Midwifery and Love. They are exploring insights from their different perspectives to illuminate the importance of love to our lives and love in midwifery practice. The start of life, pregnancy, labour and birth and the early weeks of life is a critical and sensitive period in which the transcendent growth of love, attachment and strong family relationships may be supported or disturbed. Midwifery is vital to ensuring the growth of love and commitment is supported rather than undermined at the start to life.
We hope that through this conversation midwives and others listening will be inspired to think about what love means and reflect on the place of love in their practice and in the systems and culture in which they work.

Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Editor; Mayes Midwifery, Host, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals
Contribution from:
Professor Lesley Page CBE, Academic & Midwife; Former President, Royal College of Midwives

Clare Wardhaugh
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1 hr 2 min
November 17, 2023 11.9 Supporting transitions and sustaining wellbeing for International Midwives joining the UK workforce
Presentations will include some insights from international midwives and those supporting them in practice.
Hosted by:
Dr Anna Byrom, Creative Director - The Practising Midwife, The Student Midwife and All4Maternity
Contribution from:
Dr Anna Byrom, Creative Director - The Practising Midwife, The Student Midwife and All4Maternity
Neesha Ridley, Lead Midwife, All4Maternity
Dr Aaron Turner, Director, One Thought
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1 hr 6 min
November 10, 2023 11.8 Advocating Self-Care following a Caesarean Section #midwiferyhour
Welcome to an event you won’t want to miss - join this Maternity and Midwifery Hour on 8th November from 7-8pm to explore all the important and truly vital differences you can make to a new mother after caesarean section.
Meet with award winning clinician, personalised care ambassador and author, Janine McKnight, as she takes you on an enlightening journey of truth and factual accounts of mothers’ experiences following caesarean section delivery.
Explore the highs and lows of what midwives and HCPs should be delivering to provide healthcare at home in the current NHS climate and how midwives can focus on embedding the recommendations from The Long Term Plan.
Self – Care is the actions individuals take for themselves, on behalf of or with others in order to develop, protect, maintain and improve their health, wellbeing, or wellness.
In this webinar, Janine will seek to support attendees to embed self-care as part of a caesarean recovery care bundle.
Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Consultant and Leading Educationalist; Host, Maternity and Midwifery Festivals and Hour; Editor; Mayes’ Midwifery
Contribution from:
Janine McKnight-Cowan BEM, Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor, RCNi Community & General Nurse Award winner 2019, Author of ‘C-Section Recovery Manual-Your Body, Your Recovery’
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1 hr 12 min
November 03, 2023 11.7 Examination of the new-born: preparing parents #midwiferyhour
In this hour, our guest, Stephanie Michaelides highlights the key aspects for midwives of supporting the examination of the newborn. A confident and competent physical examination of a newborn infant helps establish the midwife’s relationship with the mother and relevant others which will go on to enhance the baby’s wellbeing and empower the mother to give the best care to her baby. This will be especially important for a first baby when the mother may be in unfamiliar territory.
Happily most newborn babies are healthy and well and we can give that information to the mother. But things can change very quickly, or problems may emerge which were not immediately obvious. By continuing to monitor the baby, we will be able to identify deviations from normal so that we can intervene and minimise morbidity and mortality.
Supporting and educating the woman begins at her first booking visit and continues throughout her antenatal, intrapartum and post natal care until the woman and her baby are discharged to the GP’s care.
Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contribution from:
Stephanie Michaelides, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Neonatal Care, Middlesex University
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1 hr 8 min