Midwives blog
Emma Godfrey, editor of Midwives magazine and guest bloggers comment on topical events affecting the world of midwifery.
If you feel strongly about any of these postings, please add a comment.
(Please note all postings made in these blogs express the views and opinions of the author and are not necessarily shared by the Royal College of Midwives or Redactive Publishing Ltd.)
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Its the turn of Myleene Klass this time(13.17, 2 September 2010) Myleene Klass she of the white bikini in Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and the presenter of Ten Years Younger is not a celebrity one would immediately pick as an advocate of midwifery. I associate her with glamour, froth and fashion...
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Increase in babies with bumps(17.38, 26 August 2010) There was a rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales last spring, according to the latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics...
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Saying 'no' to breastfeeding(15.27, 19 August 2010) A poll of young women finds a third would shun breastfeeding because they want to avoid saggy boobs. For some, vanity is the overriding factor when weighing up the pros and cons of breastfeeding...
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What do women want?(13.27, 11 August 2010) At Health Poverty Action, we are trying to really understand what women in Northern Bombali want from their maternity services. Many of the challenges that childbearing women and midwives face in Sierra Leone are very different to those faced by women in the UK, but choice is what women in both countries say is important to them...
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Outlaw formula feeding!(12.28, 4 August 2010) I expect that models spend quite a lot of time being asked to get their breasts out, so perhaps its only fair that Gisele Bundchen, a 30-year-old who specialises in looking beautiful for the cameras, has decided to turn the tables...
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Obese or fat?(11.18, 30 July 2010) Society is getting fatter. It's a bit of a taboo subject really, but there's no avoiding it or dressing it up looking around the streets of almost any city, the number of overweight people has increased. The media is consumed by reports of obesity levels celebrities are getting skinnier, but on average, society is getting larger.
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Transport etiquette(15.08, 23 July 2010) Usually commuter travel into London is a fairly depressing experience. Everyone's caught up in their own world, focused on laptops, smartphones, books, newspapers well anything that avoids looking at, gesturing towards or any way communicating with fellow commuters. And today was no exception...
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Overexposure?(15.14, 16 July 2010) There was something dispiriting and I felt slightly disingenuous by the TV personality Denise van Outens claims recently that she gave up breastfeeding her baby Betsy after three weeks, because she was afraid of being photographed...
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It doesn't make sense!(15.09, 9 July 2010) OK, this is a one-man campaign. Can everyone using Lucozade for the gestational diabetes test please stop? I may not be a scientist, but it does seem to be a particularly unscientific way of doing things...
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More than a number(16.00, 2 July 2010) I know the statistics relating to maternal and newborn health in Sierra Leone are among the worst in the world. It is possible to be slightly removed from the reality of what the statistics mean, while acknowledging they are shocking...
