A full list of links to articles and blog posts on the #MatExp Focus topics – updated weekly.
Taking #MatExp into 2016
- HQIP case study about #MatExp Whose Shoes? – telling you more about our work
- Looking at implementing the recommendations of the National Maternity Review report at a local level
- Working more closely with the 1001 Critical Days campaign
- Getting the word out to midwifery societies
- Continuing to work with MSLCs – Public Health England information and NCT information
#MatExp In Action – Latest Projects from the Maternity World!
Digital Technology – National Maternity Review
First & Second Trimester Loss Study Day – The Pinks N Blues CIC
GPIFN – GP Infant Feeding Network
Growing Families Conference – Manchester
Homebirth Conference – Manchester
Hospitalbreastfeeding – campaign for better breastfeeding support on paediatrics
Life With Baby, Kent – online peer support for those experiencing postnatal mental health issues
LTHT Maternity Event in Leeds – Leeds #MatExp WhoseShoes workshop
MyBirthMyBody – from Maternity Matters
Open Letter on Breastfeeding – The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi)
Perinatal Mental Health Network
PND&Me – updated website
Showing Thanks – sharing a “thank you” with maternity teams
Women’s Voices in #MatExp – blog series
Antenatal Preparation – Expectations vs Reality
Why Are So Many Mums Struggling? – Emma Jane Sasaru
Developing Confident Parents – classes from Vesta Birth and Parenting
Anxiety
Time to Act on Anxiety – #MatExp
The Truth About Hypnobirthing – Suzy Ashworth
How Hypnobirthing is Taking the Fear out of Childbirth – Kirsteen O’Sullivan
Breathing Life – The Power of the Breath – Doula Paris
Fear of Childbirth, or Fear of Medicalisation? – Sara Wickham
Women’s Choices, Expectations & Experiences in Childbirth – Claudia Malacrida
Disenfranchised Grief in Postpartum Women – Rumyana P. Kudeva
Therapy after a Traumatic Pregnancy – Louisa Leaman
Overcome Birth Trauma – Natal Hypnotherapy
Postnatal Recovery – Natal Hypnotherapy
Trauma Releasing Exercises – TRE College
Pregnancy After Loss Support – Facebook page
Baby Loss Study Days – Midwifery & Nursing Online
Managing Symptoms of Birth Trauma
Maternity Matters Peer Support Facebook group
Centrepoint Stress Relief Tool website
Guidance and Help – Campaign for Safer Births
Overcome Birth Trauma website
Birth Trauma Association Facebook group
What do you want people to know about birth trauma?
A health baby is not all that matters – Milli Hill
Birth Trauma and PTSD – Raising Awareness – Emma Jane Sasaru
Birth after Trauma – Alisha’s Birth Story – Emma Jane Sasaru
Promoting Respect and Preventing Mistreatment during Childbirth – BJOG
This is what I want you to know – ghostwritermum
Pregnancy After Birth Trauma
Vaginal Examinations in Labour – Magical Birth
Risk, Safety and Normal Birth – Magical Birth
A Healthy Baby Isn’t All That Matters – Double Crunch
Those Two Blue Lines – ghostwritermummy
Letter Of My Life – ghostwritermummy
Pregnancy After Birth Trauma – ghostwritermummy
What Happens When We Don’t Listen To Women? – ghostwritermummy
Choosing a Caesarean, and Having That Choice Refused – SouthwarkBelle
Pregnancy After Birth Trauma – heartmummy
Body Image
Birth Trauma & Body Image – ghostwritermummy
The Post-Birth Body – ghostwritermummy
The Shape Of A Mother website
Body Image of Mothers – Diana West IBCLC
Breasts, Body Image & Sexuality – Lisa Hassan Scott
007 breasts website
Bare Reality website
Breastfeeding Support On Children’s Wards
#MatExpHour Round Up – heartmummy
HospitalBreastfeeding – heartmummy
Caesarean Birth
A Perfect Caesarean Section, Complete with Skin-to-Skin – Krystal Cleaver
Caesarean Section – Let’s Dispel Some Myths – Our Rach
Caesarean in Focus – Clare Goggin
One Year – Laura Wood
Another Section is not a Solution – Laura Wood
Rachel’s Home VBAC – Gentle Caesarean Birth – Cambridge VBAC Friends
Rachel’s Story of a Gentle Caesarean Birth – Cambridge VBAC Friends
PND and Caesarean Section – Have You Seen That Girl?
The Early Section – Family Fever
The Premature Section – Family Fever
The Crash Section – Family Fever
The Last Section – Family Fever
Ghostwritermum Caesarean Birth posts:
- On this Day, When my Life Changed Forever
- The new NICE guidelines on C-sections
- Isobel’s Story – It’s a Girl!
- The Day Before the Elective Section
- An IUGR Baby – The Birth Day Part 1
- An IUGR Baby – The Birth Day Part 2
- Ways in which my C-sections make me Amazing
- I Wanted A Water Birth
- My Son’s Birth Story
- C-section Birth – An Enhanced Recovery?
- What the 4th C-Section was Really Like
- Planned or Elective Caesarean?
- No Less of a Mother
- What Happens When You Don’t Listen To Women
Care Quality Commission Maternity Survey
2015 Survey Results – CQC
Maternity Care Experiences – CQC
Share Your Experience – CQC
Musings on the CQC Survey – Florence Wilcock
Still Some Way To Go – Gill Phillips
My Maternity Care for #YourMaternityCare – Leigh Kendall
#MatExp Lithotomy Challenge – Florence Wilcock & Gill Phillips
Visual Aids for Birthing Positions – Royal College of Midwives
Round up of Twitter Chat – Florence Wilcock
Dads & Partners
Time to Act for Dads & Partners – #MatExp
Dads Matter – Mark Williams
Fathers Reaching Out – Mark Williams
Postnatal Depression in Dads – NCT
Fathers’ Mental Health – Institute of Health Visiting
PND Dads: What You Can Do – Dad Info
Birth Trauma – Dads & Partners – Caesarean In Focus
Being a Birth Partner – The Frog Pyjamas
#MatExp for Deaf Parents
Deaf Nest Conference 2016 – book now!
Learn Some Basic Sign Language – Action on Hearing Loss
Why all NHS staff should learn some Basic Sign Language – NHS Change Day
Breastfeeding Support webchat – National Breastfeeding Helpline
Debriefs
What is the Purpose of Debriefing Women in the Postnatal Period? – RCM
Why Hasn’t Birth Debrief Worked Very Well? – Birthing For Blokes
Birth Debrief – Alternative Ways of Supporting Trauma event
Closing The Bones (alternative ways of addressing trauma) – MagicalBirth
Psychological Debriefing is a Waste of Time – The British Journal of Psychiatry
The Importance of the Birth Debrief – Lauren Berrett
9 Words I Wish I Never Heard – Meg Kant
eRedbook
eRedbook – your baby’s digital health record
Use of the word “failure”
I wish I could ban the word “failure” – Emma Jane Sasaru
#MatExpHour Failure to Progress – Mandy Bellenger
Midwives and Health Visitors – collaborative working
Time to Act for Better Collaboration – #MatExp
What Health Visitors Do – The Basics – Jenny Harmer
Health Visiting and Midwifery Partnership Pathway – Public Health England
#MatExp On Tour in Manchester – heartmummy
#WeMidwives Twitter chat summary – WeMidwives
#WeMidwives Twitter chat round up – heartmummy
A health visiting / midwifery partnership from UCLan – Charlotte Smith & Neesha Ridle
Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Pregnancy Sickness Support website
Pregnancy Sickness Support on Facebook
The Unempathic Society – spewingmummy
Spewing Mummy on Facebook
The Stigma of Taking Medications for Sickness in Pregnancy – Caitlin Dean
Neurodevelopmental delay in children exposed in utero to HG – European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Familial Aggregation of Hyperemesis Gravidarum – University of Southern California
Hypnobirthing
The Truth About Hypnobirthing – Suzy Ashworth
Using Hypnobirthing Techniques in Labour – Doula Paris
Hypnobirthing – Sprogcast Episode 10
In the Eye of the Beholder – Emma Jane Sasaru
It Wasn’t My Fault – Keeping It Eclectic
Induction of Labour
Induction – Cascade – Caesarean Section? – SouthwarkBelle
Intrauterine Growth Restriction
An IUGR Story – Child Growth Foundation
IUGR – A Guide for Parents & Patients – Child Growth Foundation
Fetal Growth – Perinatal Institute
Intrauterine Growth Restriction – Patient website
Made to Measure Campaign – MAMA Academy
Made to Measure, A Perfect Fit After All – ghostwritermummy
An IUGR Baby, The Story With A Happy Ending – ghostwritermummy
Maternal Mobility and Malposition in Labour
Pre-Chat Notes – Unlocking Birth
Does Baby’s Position Matter in Labour? – Unlocking Birth
Training – The Breech Birth Network – The Midwife, The Mother and The Breech
Emerging Evidence for Upright Breech Birth – The Midwife, The Mother and The Breech
Application of Assisted Deliveries Ball – CNKI.com
Who Decides The Position For Birth? – Journal of the Australian College of Midwives
spinningbabies website
Help! My Baby is Back to Back – Dr Matthew Prior
Twitter Chat Round-up – Unlocking Birth
Maternity Notes – Access & Language
Accessing your Records – birthrights
Understanding your Notes – Birth Trauma Association
What Does #MatExp Mean To You?
The #MatExp Lithotomy Challenge – Florence Wilcock
#MatExp Survey – The Results Are In! – heartmummy
Why the Wonderful #MatExp has Given me Hope – Emma Jane Sasaru
Reflecting on #MatExp and the Impact it is Having – Victoria Morgan
Putting the Heart into #MatExp – Heart Values – Emma Jane Sasaru
The FUNdamentals of Building a Change Platform – Gill Phillips
This Time Last Year….. – Gill Phillips
Proving That You Don’t Have To Ask For Permission To Make Change – Gill Phillips
WhoseShoes Confirmed That My Shoes Have Climbed A Mountain – Michelle Quashie
No Hierarchy, Just People – Gill Phillips
Twitter Chat Round Up – heartmummy
National Maternity Review Report
National Maternity Review Report – NHS England
Safe Care is Personalised Care – Mary Newburn
Birthrights Responds – Birthrights
Update on NHS Maternity Review – Royal College of Midwives
Positive Birth Movement Responds – Positive Birth Movement
What Can We All Agree On? – Dr Matthew Prior
Cherished Memory – Roy Lilley
A Personal View From A Member Of The Review Team – Annie Francis
What Does Choice Mean? – southwarkbelle
Thoughts on the National Maternity Review – James Titcombe
Night-time Support on the Postnatal Ward
Pre-Twitter Chat Information from Caesarean in Focus
Equal Rights and Staying Overnight – 23weeksocks
The Longest Night of my Life – heartmummy
36+2 Dangerously Understaffed – heartmummy
Time to Act for Dads & Partners – #MatExp
Postnatal Care – My After the Birth Story – SouthwarkBelle
Postnatal Care after CS – A Poem – helenyoungmidwife
The Postnatal Period should not be an Endurance Test – Beyond the Birthing Suite
Twitter Chat Round Up – from Caesarean in Focus
“Normal” Birth
Normal not Normal – Southwark Belle
When Normal Seems To Be The Hardest Word – MatExp
Normal Birth Is Not Always Normal – heartmummy
What is ‘Normal’ Anyway? – Leigh Kendall
Risk, Safety and Normal Birth – Selina Wallis
Peer Support – What Is Helpful?
Birth Trauma Association Facebook Page
PND and Me – host of #PNDHour on Twitter
How a Modern Day Village is Helping me Raise my Child – Maya and the Moon
Pregnancy Complications
Stories from the Heart – congenital heart defect – heartmummy
HELLP Syndrome – Still Processing the Events 10 Months on – Leigh Kendall
An IUGR Baby: And Then It’s All Over – ghostwritermum
Postpartum Hypothyroidism, Pregnancy and Being a Bit of a Divvy – SouthwarkBelle
Pre-Labour Premature Rupture of Membranes (PPROM)
Till It Happens To You – PPROM Aware Video
We Are Not Alone – Little Heartbeats PPROM Awareness
PPROM Awareness on Facebook
Stillbirth
#MatExpHour Stillbirth Storify
Stillbirth Stories website
MAMA Academy website
The Day The Whole World Went Away – Shoebox of Memories
Wake Up Babies – Shoebox of Memories
It’s Not All Rainbows and Unicorns – Shoebox of Memories
NHS Maternity Review – Our Say – Shoebox of Memories
Taking on Stigma and Taboo – Shoebox of Memories
Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle – NHS England
Baby Loss Study Days – Midwifery & Nursing Online
Remember my Baby website
Reduced Movements in Pregnancy – ghostwritermummy
Reduced Foetal Movements – Maternity Care in the Media – Let’s Talk Midwifery
Bereavement Support for Parents – Leigh Kendall
Student Midwives for #MatExp
StudentMidwife.NET website
Thou Shall Not Pass – Alison Brindle (student midwife)
Why Your Voice Matters
When There Are No Words – The Smile Group
Letting My Voice Be Heard – Emma Jane Sasaru
Someone Listened To Me – Ghostwritermum
It’s Complicated – heartmummy
Do Not Silence Me – Emma Jane Sasaru
Gratitude – heartmummy
World Prematurity Day
Thoughts for World Prematurity Day – Leigh Kendall
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – 23WeekSocks
Navigating the Challenges – NICU – Emma Sasaru
Not Even A Bag Of Sugar blogspot – Kylie Hodges
Social Media and Premature Babies – Kylie Hodges
PTSD – The Hidden Cost of NICU – The Smallest Things
Neonatal Care Services Need Investment Now – The Guardian
