31 May 2019
As midwives caring for women we have all listened to these sheepish confessions: ‘I know it’s bad… but I only smoke one or two in the evening… once the kids are in bed… it really is one of life’s few pleasures… something just for me….’.
24 May 2019
In 2014 the RCM and the RCOG decided that something needed to be done to address the increasing rates of OASI (obstetric anal sphincter injury). OASI has an enormous negative impact on the lives of those affected. Following a round table discussion ...
24 May 2019
Before making the trip down to London to carry out my elective at the Royal College of Midwives, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Despite having worked alongside the RCM at several points throughout my studies, I wanted to know exactly how the RCM ...
24 April 2019
Nikki Rhys-Jones is a specialist midwife who joined the NSPCC in 2012. Nikki has been delivering Baby Steps, a perinatal education programme, for five years and in that time she has run 69 groups in Swansea and Bridgend. She lives in Cardiff and ...
23 April 2019
I was nominated for the RCM's Emma's Diary Mums' Midwife of the Year award' by an exceptional lady, wife and mother of two beautiful children, Sarah Griffiths. I was completely taken aback that Sarah felt my care had such a positive impact that ...
27 March 2019
This April the RCM celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening up of membership to support workers in maternity. Apparently this is an anniversary celebrated by a gift of aluminium or tin but we’ll probably stick with cake.
25 March 2019
Have you ever thought about the origins of the word ‘crisis’ in our English language? We use it to describe something terrible, an intractable calamity of some kind.
But in Greek – the source of our English word – it means something different, ...
22 March 2019
On March 7th 2019, NHS England celebrated the three-year anniversary of the launch of the maternity policy document ‘Better Births’ in Manchester. Attending this event made me reflect on how hard maternity services have worked, and how far ...