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Latest features

Open access: Recent features are available to all site visitors.


  • Access NepalA new grant, funded by the RCM and Wellbeing of Women, is helping researchers identify ways to improve maternity care access on an international level. Rebecca Grant meets the award recipient.
  • A close comparisonDespite clear differences, Uganda and the UK share striking similarities in the issues their maternity services face, say Michelle Henry and Shirley Stronge.
  • A sustainable serviceCarolyn Garland and Alison Williams outline the maternal obesity service they developed, which won them the prize for innovation in midwifery at the RCM awards.
  • A world of differenceWith applications about to open for the next stage of the Global Midwifery Twinning Project, we hear from those who have returned from their placements.
  • Editorial: Spreading the global messageThe RCM director for midwifery on international issues and global goals.
  • Fathers reaching outThe serious effects of postnatal depression on women are widely known. But what about their loved ones? Mark Williams gives the perspective of a husband and father.
  • Healthy babies, hopeful heartsBernadette Brieskorn shares the story of the Glory Reborn Clinic, which is dedicated to providing free maternity care to the poor and disadvantaged women of Cebu in the Philippines.
  • How to take a newborn blood spot sampleThe UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre provides guidelines on performing the heel prick test to obtain a good quality newborn blood spot sample.
  • Intrapartum interventions and breastfeeding durationJan Wallis reviews the findings of a study assessing the association between intrapartum interventions and breastfeeding duration.
  • Selfless dedicationEsther Madudu has given up her own children to help bring babies safely into the world in Uganda. The Nobel Peace Prize hopeful tells Rob Dabrowski about the challenges of African maternity care.
  • The big issueObesity is an epidemic of the modern, developed world and its implications for health, particularly in pregnancy, are not to be underestimated. But how can midwives cope with the strain? Helen Bird investigates.
  • The long road to midwiferyStudent midwife Hana Ruth Abel shares her adventurous journey into midwifery.
  • Tweetdeck: Issue 3 :: 2013A look at what you've been tweeting.
  • Up for grabs Issue 3 :: 2013Here's a chance to get your hands on some great giveaways with our free prize draws.
  • Tweetdeck: Issue 2 :: 2013A look at what you've been tweeting.
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Older features

Member-only: Older Midwives features are available only to RCM members of Midwives subscribers.


  • How to help with positioning and attachmentHelping a mother get started is one key step in feeding, says Gillian Hughes, senior lecturer in midwifery at the University of Chester.
  • My mother-in-law tells me what to doUniversity of Aberdeen's Bibha Simkhada and Maureen Porter and Bournemouth University's Edwin van Teijlingen explore some of the key issues surrounding the role of mothers-in-law in antenatal care decision-making in Nepal.
  • What is Barth syndrome?Repeated miscarriages or stillbirths of males may be due to Barth syndrome, according to Vanessa Garratt, Debbie Riddiford and the National Barth Syndrome Service's Colin Steward, Beverly Tsai-Goodman and Ruth Newbury-Ecob. But what is this syndrome and what role should midwives play in its diagnosis?
  • Working togetherThe NHS landscape is changing, but the importance of women and midwives working collaboratively to support breastfeeding remains, as Francesca Entwistle, Mary Renfrew, Alison Baum, Sue Ashmore and Janet Fyle explore.
  • The way we wereThe 1960s may have marked the age of modern Britain, yet Ann Corsellis's early experiences working as a midwife - from hopping on the bus to attend home births to using drawers as makeshift cribs - show just how much things have changed in 50 years.

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