The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

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The Maternity & Midwifery Hour episodes

June 17, 2022 7.8 Passion, Empathy and Burnout in Lactation Support
The need for support, and the impact of stress on those providing support for breastfeeding mothers led Professor Amy Brown to explore the wellbeing of lactation support workers, prior and during the Covid-19 lockdown. In this presentation, Amy will share the complex picture that emerged, and what the implications are for breastfeeding women, their families and their supporters.
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from: Professor Amy Brown, Professor, Public Health, Swansea University
Biographies Professor Amy Brown A psychologist by background, I now work in public health research specialising in research exploring early experiences of parenthood with a focus on infant feeding, mental health and normal baby behaviour. I have published widely across these topics with my research helping to inform policy and practice in the UK and internationally. I have a particular interest in public engagement and making sure our research findings are relevant, understood and shared in an engaging way so that they can reach new parents and those who support them. I have worked closely with policy makers, public health bodies and charities around the world to ensure this happens.
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58 min
June 10, 2022 7.7 Reflections from Personalised care
In this episode, Sue and Zahra will discuss the one-day programme for maternity and midwifery professionals and policy makers building on the recommendations from the Ockenden Report into incidents at Shrewsbury and Telford titled Personalised Maternity Care: Building on Ockenden. Claire's presentation (a brand new recording straight from the live event in Central London on June 8th) 'Devising and facilitating personalised care plans for women wanting care outside of guidelines, including ELCS' will be played live. This presentation that would be of interest to everyone from students, midwives and other maternity staff. Debra will focus on sharing information about the Student Experience Festival (29 June) and how you and your Midwifery Society can get involved.
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from: Claire Parker, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Former Consultant Midwife, Anglia Ruskin University Zahra Saeed, Midwifery Student, University of Salford Debra Murray, Deputy Editor and Marketer, Midwifery Forum
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1 hr 3 min
June 03, 2022 7.6 Developing a Perinatal Pelvic Health Service
The need to address perinatal pelvic health was highlighted by the NHS announcement in 2021 the that NHS Pelvic Health Clinics would be set up to support pregnant women and new mums to prevent and treat incontinence and other pelvic floor issues. These would provide a one stop shop for women, who can self refer, through their pregnancy and afterwards, providing specialist advice, exercises and treatment, plus training and support for local clinicians. Rachel Mullins and her colleague Zoe Nelson join us to describe the story of setting up their local clinic, who is involved, and provide us with the potential effects of this service on women, and how we can use this knowledge to roll out and expand the service.
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from: Rachel Mullins, Perinatal Pelvic Health Midwife, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and; Zoe Nelson, Local Maternity & Neonatal Lead Midwife, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
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1 hr
May 27, 20227.5 Midwives Moving to Higher Education
Is it a career move to education for you? Midwives moving to higher education - exploring the issues.
Midwifery education in Indonesia, developing a collaborative curriculum.
Exploring these topics will be Jo Foster and Mandy Wain, both Assistant Professors in Midwifery at the University of Nottingham.
Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from:
Joanne Foster, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Amanda Wain, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Biographies
Jo Foster RGN RM BSc MSc PGCHE NMC Midwife Teacher FHEA
Jo qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1994 and then completed a BSc in Midwifery in 1999. Jo practiced in a range of clinical midwifery roles and her passion for intrapartum care, ultimately led her to practice in a leadership role as a Labour Suite Coordinator. Jo is an active Newborn Life Support Instructor with the UK Resuscitation Council. Jo’s Masters research was in Preceptorship, and she is currently Assistant Professor in Midwifery University of Nottingham. She leads on the undergraduate courses; Year 2 Clinical Practice and year 3 Enhanced Maternity Care and the postgraduate course The Examination of the Newborn (NIPE).
Amanda Wain
Mandy qualified as a midwife in 2007 and is Assistant Professor of Midwifery at the University of Nottingham. Her areas of expertise are within intrapartum care, and bereavement care. She was also previously a Supervisor of Midwives. Mandy is the Midwifery Practice Learning and Clinical Skills Lead for the BSC (Hons) Midwifery Degree. She leads the year three Practice Course, Advancing Midwifery Practice. She also is Course Lead for The Professional Midwifery Advocate CPD module. She is a link tutor to Nottingham University Hospital (NUH) Trust.
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1 hr 3 min
May 20, 2022 7.4 Abortion & Bullying on the Agenda
This week, we look at two important issues that are facing midwives, midwifery and maternity services.

My Uterus - a reflection on Roe vs Wade with Laura Godfrey-Isaacs What does that leaked report from the US Supreme Court attempting to reverse the ruling of Roe versus Wade mean for women in the US and beyond?
Laura will consider what this means from a feminist and midwife perspective, including a celebration of the mighty uterus! And for many years, the issue of bullying has been cited as a problem within many spheres of society, including the NHS and midwifery, and still, it seems that there is a problem.
Why should that be and what can we do to address bullying and ensure that our service is caring and nurturing for our midwives, and medical and student colleagues?

Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from:
Amanda Burleigh, Midwifery Consultant & Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor
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1 hr 4 min
May 13, 2022 7.3 Career Spotlight
How much of a plan did you have for your career as a midwife when you were in your training? Did you know what direction you wanted to go in? Are you now wondering what would be the best place for YOU in midwifery and maternity services? This hour will provide a spotlight on the things you need to think about right at the beginning, and then includes some ‘what I wish I’d known’... points to set you on the best pathway, or even give you some ideas for a slight change in your career direction!
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from:
Michelle Steptoe, Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) – Course Director, HSC, Midwifery, London South Bank University (LSBU) and Chelone Lee-Wo, Consultant Midwife for Public Health, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Biographies:
Chelone Lee-Wo
Chelone qualified as a registered nurse in 1994 and worked in Gynaecology and Orthopaedic surgical wards at Kingston Hospital. In 1996 she gained a BSC (Hons) in Midwifery and in 2001 a Diploma in Obstetric Ultrasound from King’s College University. As a midwife in the North West London region for 20 years, she set up a multidisciplinary teenage pregnancy community-based service which continues. She was a Supervisor of Midwives for 10 years until the function ceased. During two years in Trinidad as a case-loading midwife in the only Caribbean stand-alone birth center, she completed her MSc in Advanced Midwifery Practice and produced a free Redbook equivalent for the local parents in 2016.
Chelone started her Consultant Midwife post at St George’s in 2017 and focuses on Public Health, Maternity Transformation, and Patient Experience.
MSc/RM RN PgDip ObstUS
Michelle Steptoe
Michelle has been a midwife for 29 years and in higher education for the past 14, achieving her MA in Academic Practice in 2010 and Senior Fellowship of the Higher education Authority (HEA) in 2016. She is currently the course director for the 3-year midwifery degree programme at LSBU (London South Bank University).
During her career, Michelle has had various roles, including an innovative role in developing evidence-based trust guidelines and standards, ward co-ordinator positions, staff training, and development, supporting and promoting home birth, and is a qualified hypnobirthing teacher.
Michelle’s clinical interests lie in promoting normality through empowering women and supporting midwives to provide woman/person-centered care and promoting the development of knowledge and skills through research and reflection.
Her academic interests lie in ensuring that students achieve to the best of their ability, and she has worked on various projects focused on developing appropriate feedforward methods, which help to enable students to become more independent on their learning journey and which help them to secure employment at the end of their programme.
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1 hr 13 min
May 06, 2022 7.2 International Day of the Midwife 2022
Thursday 5 May midwives across the world are celebrating International Day of the Midwife 2022.
This time of celebration will reflect on progress in midwifery over the past 100 years. We hope that midwives, maternity support workers and student midwives across the globe celebrate in unison.
In this episode, hear more about the current midwifery climate with leading professionals and how to get involved on Thursday the 5th of May.
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from Faiza Rehman, Founder, The Raham Project and;
Michelle Anderson, Senior Research Midwife, Royal Free London Reproductive Health & Childbirth Champion (North Thames)
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1 hr 1 min
April 29, 2022Series 7.1 Highlights from the Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2022
In the recent Ockenden report about a UK maternity trust, it was pointed out that midwives and staff had been prevented from speaking out.
In this hour Kathryn Gutteridge, Consultant Midwife, and psychotherapist will discuss the issues of speaking out in the current health climate.
Read Dr. Kathryn Guttridge's recent article for the Maternity and Midwifery Forum.
Join us to find out more.
Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from:
Dr Sally Pezaro, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health, Coventry University

Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Adviser, NCT

Dr Kathryn Guttridge, Consultant Midwife, and Psychotherapist
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1 hr 4 min
April 08, 2022 13. Improving choices and care for women; groups, resources and services
It is really important that midwives listen to and work with women, organisations, and individuals who will enrich their care.
The Raham Project was set up for mothers and their partners who have recently used or are currently using maternity services, creating a safe and non-judgemental space for mums and partners to discuss all things related to pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal mental health.
Maddie, who is a doula and doula trainer, shares her role in supporting women and also midwives, illustrated by the support for midwives all over the country at the recent March for Midwives.
Join us to find out more.
Hosted by: Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from Faiza Rehman, Founder, The Raham Project and; Maddie McMahon, Doula
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1 hr 3 min
April 01, 202212. Inspiring and supporting mothers and families: Parent-craft and antenatal education online
For many years, parentcraft and preparation for childbirth and early parenting has been delivered face to face – utilising a group approach, with some controversy that it does not always meet all womens/parents needs, and that some women who need it might not access it.
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, midwives had to think of different ways to support women preparing them for their pregnancy and childbirth journey, and ensure they were informed and confident. Many aspects of care moved online... including parentcraft.
In this session we explore whether this is a good way to provide antenatal education and preparation; is this going to be a service that we continue to provide in this way? How do the midwives feel, and how do the mothers and parents feel? From these two skilled midwives you will learn some tips and ideas for making learning engaging and relevant.
Join us to find out more.
Hosted by:
Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Expert, Mayes Midwifery
Contributions from:
Dianne Garland, Midwife Expert

Geraldine Hotham, Parent Education Midwife, HEYBaby, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Women and Children’s Hospital

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1 hr 5 min