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MidwifeDiaries is a blog for midwives and midwives in the making.
These are Ellie’s personal thoughts, not those of her trust or of NHS England.
My Takeaways from MBRRACE 2020
The ‘constellation of biases’ included in the review includes poverty and, of course, being from a minority ethnic group.In this review, black women are found to have 4.35x increased risk of mortality and Asian women 2x in comparison to white women. It could be concluded that this is successful since in the last report black women were 5x more likely to die during childbearing but the reduction is described as ‘non-significant’.
Cycling to Work as a Midwife
Cycling to work as a midwife.
Personal Statements and Inclusive Language
Should I use 'woman' or 'client' or something else in my personal statement? What's inclusive?
'In and Around Us' - Black Lives Matter, Midwifery, and The Secret Community, with David Monteith
David Monteith is an actor, father, infant loss activist and antiracism activist. Great bloke. Join us for a focussed wander around racism in Britain, in midwifery, obstetrics, history and how we can all help.
Mary Shelley
The Secret Community For Midwives In The Making Reading List
Being a Transgender Midwife; Caring for Transgender Clients; and the Language of Motherhood, with Midwife Nathan Welch
'Support/Advice Needed' - A Student Midwife Nearly Gives up but Doesn't
A few years ago I went through a really tough time as an almost-qualified student midwife. I made a mistake while on placement and found myself being shouted at by a room full of midwives on a delivery suite after one of the hardest night shifts I had experienced.
Independent Midwife Debs Neiger: on Fetoscopes, Close and Longlasting Relationships with Women, and Her Most Important Realisation from the Last Few Years
If you could put a sign up on every labour ward or work place for midwives worldwide, with a big message for every member of staff, what would it say?Listen to your women and actually HEAR them. Always. They will tell you almost EVERYTHING you need to know.
How To Understand Birth Mechanism
Surviving Emergencies As A First Year Student Midwife
