The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

About 30,000 women a year, according to the most recent research, experience birth trauma in the UK.

This episode will explore birth trauma, its impact on women and their families, and how practitioners can reduce the risk of trauma and support affected women.

With Rachael McGrath, Volunteer Manager, Birth Trauma Association and Dr Maeve O’Connell, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University.

The Birth Trauma Association (BTA) are a charity that supports women who suffer birth trauma – a shorthand term for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after birth.

Episode 10 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributions from:

Rachael McGrath, Volunteer Manager, Birth Trauma Association

Dr Maeve O’Connell, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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The Getting over the Bump Service at St George’s is the only collaborative midwife/occupational therapy service in the UK that works in partnership with women with additional needs to plan for pregnancy, birth and early parenting.

This episode will focus on the need for joined up, integrated services for pregnant and childbearing women with a disability, to ensure that their additional needs are properly met and will hear, in particular, from Trudy Williams, Midwife and Cheryl Edwards, Occupational Therapist from St George’s about the innovative work of the Getting over the Bump Service.

Episode 9 of Series 4 of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributions from:

Trudy Williams, Maternal Medicine Midwife, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cheryl Edwards, Principal Occupational Therapist, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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The recently published NICE Guideline on Postnatal Care is an essential tool and support for midwives and students in providing evidence based and appropriate care to women, pregnant people, their babies and families. This episode is an opportunity to hear how these were developed and key messages from the publication.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributions from:

David Jewell, retired GP; Chair of NICE PNC Guideline Committee

Nina Khazaezadeh, Consultant Midwife in Public Health, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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The menopause will happen to all women and as a largely female profession midwives and student midwives need to know about it, for their own wellbeing and to support women and families who may request information and support.

Recent media coverage of the topic has been helpful in identifying some of the issues that women face at this time of their lives, some of the challenges and stigma women face and what information and treatments are available.

The menopause is a natural part of ageing that usually occurs between 45 and 55 years of age, as a woman's oestrogen levels decline. In the UK, the average age for a woman to reach the menopause is 51. (NHS 2021) however POI ( menopause under 40) can happen at any time.

In this session Debra Holloway, Nurse Consultant will discuss these issues, consider the many treatments/therapies and approaches and how these can impact on women and their families, plus some share some useful resources.

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributors:

With contributions from:

Debra Holloway, Gynaecology Nurse Consultant and Chair of Women’s Health Forum, Guy's & St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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Professor Amy Brown is well known for her humorous and forthright approach to dissecting modern day media narratives and cultural pressures around motherhood and infant feeding. Her clear presentation of evidence and research will provide a picture of some of the difficulties facing new mums and how midwives can support them in the first few weeks of motherhood.

Episode 6 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributors:

With contributions from:

Professor Amy Brown, Professor, Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences, Swansea University

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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This week’s episode of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour will focus on the newborn will explore the midwife’s role in newborn assessment and fetal physiology and monitoring.

With expert speakers - Dr Mary Sheridan BEM, Newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) Lead and Midwifery Lecturer, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London and Sorcha Magee, Specialist Fetal Wellbeing Midwife at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

Episode 5 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributors:

With contributions from:

Dr Mary Sheridan BEM, Newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) Lead and Midwifery Lecturer, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Sorcha Magee, Specialist Fetal Wellbeing Midwife at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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Episode 4: International Day of the Midwife - with Professor Lesley Page CBE, Visiting Professor in Midwifery at King’s College, London and Adjunct Professor at UTS and Griffith University, Australia and Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Senior Lecturer at London South Bank

As part of today’s IDM celebrations, tonight’s episode will explore the contemporary roles and challenges midwives face and manage that impact on the wellbeing of women, their babies and families, including practical advice on how midwives can work with women to protect their cultural identity.

Episode 4 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

Contributors:

With contributions from:

Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Senior Midwifery Lecturer, London South Bank University

Professor Lesley Page CBE, Visiting Professor in Midwifery at King’s College, London and Adjunct Professor at UTS and Griffith University, Australia

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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Listen for an overview of All 4 Maternity’s new eLearn modules on culture, race and bias in midwifery practice from the Student Midwife Journal’s Editor in Chief, Alicia Burnett, and founding partner of MyMidwivesUK, Sheridan Thomas.

This episode is guest-hosted by Neil Stewart, Editorial Director of the Maternity & Midwifery Forum.

Access the e-learning modules here: https://www.all4maternity.com/about-us/plans-and-pricing/

Remember the knitted midwives of 2016? This hour explores creativity – including crafting, quilting and knitting. These skills are not merely practical and relaxing hobbies, but can be linked to academic study, reflection on practice and as a means of action and illustration of points.

The knitted midwives, a project led by Jenny and Lindsay in 2016, was to illustrate a political point that there was (and still is) a national shortage of midwives and that educating and preparing them is a major challenge to the service. It was also designed to celebrate what midwives can mean to people personally.

The knitted midwives were taken to the RCM annual conference in Harrogate and was a tangible picture of what a huge number actually looks like! And in 2020, there was a plan to celebrate the year of the Nurse and the midwife with an exercise in quilting.. Join us to hear about how you can engage creatively yourself!

Episode 2 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour

Hosted by:

Sue Macdonald, Curator, Maternity & Midwifery Festivals; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery

With contributions from:

Dr Jenny Hall, Curator, MATFLIX

Lindsay Hobbs, Midwifery Lecturer, University of Bradford

Supported by MATFLIX: https://matflix.co.uk

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How important is it to be able to share and talk about issues within midwifery – the stresses, and the joys, challenges and the achievements? In this time of pandemic, rapidly growing information and changing services, it is crucial for midwives to be able to communicate and to be kept up-to-date through books, journals and, of course, social media. 

In this hour, Nat and Leah, both experienced and committed midwives, will share their experiences as midwives and as bloggers and authors. We will go through day-to-day practice, continuity of care and work-life balance... and we may even discuss physiological matters along the way! 

Episode 1 of Series 4 of the Maternity and Midwifery Hour  

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