AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Hannah Northern Thakur Setting the scene: my NCT experience I took an NCT course four years ago ahead of my daught… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 Rebecca Jarman wrote for the AIMS journal in 2024 about Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare but potentially life… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Terri Harman Introduction For my bachelor’s research , I explored antenatal practitioners’ experiences and opinion… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Naomi Glass What is true birth preparation? Can there be too much or too little birth preparation? And can anythin… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Alex Smith Throughout history people have seen education as having different purposes. Or, to put it another way,… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Alex Smith I was in a discussion with Danish midwife Jacqueline Vejlstrup recently and it really got me thinking.… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Janet Balaskas Many years ago, in the late 1970’s, I gave birth for the first time. A few weeks before the birth I… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Rebecca Cumming As a neurodiverse antenatal teacher, I bring both professional knowledge and lived experience to m… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Jo Dagustun, AIMS Volunteer What was asked for - a fresh pair of eyes A public ministerial briefing, if you will,… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Mary Nolan My brief for this article outlined by AIMS Editor, Alex Smith (an innovative, radical and hugely skille… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 In this article, AIMS volunteer Jo Dagustun draws on her work as a geography student, to offer some thoughts on the c… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 With Rachael Bickley and Alex Smith I started my conversation with Rachael by asking her to introduce herself. Rachae… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By Alex Smith Welcome to the March edition of the AIMS journal. This issue explores the question of antenatal educati… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 An Editorial foreword: As an antenatal educator I would often invite the expectant parents to imagine that their baby… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By The AIMS Campaigns Team Published written outputs: 8th November: AIMS Response to the NHS 10 Year Workforce Plan C… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Natalie Whyte Maternal Medicine Networks were commissioned by NHS England in 2021 following MBRRACE reports showin… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Dr Megha Singh, MuM-PreDiCT programme manager, and Dr Jingya Wang, epidemiologist, University of Birmingham Introd… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Dr Etomby Namme I was born with Sickle Cell Anaemia . My parents didn’t know it at the time, but after a couple of… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Mary Smith From a young age, my dream was to be a mother—at one point fantasising about having five kids! Growing… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 Researchers Siang Ing Lee and Ngawai Moss report on the qualitative study they conducted to inform a core outcome set… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Christopher Yau, Nuffield Department for Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford on behalf of the MUM-… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 “ Following the maternity review and the publication of Better Births in 2016 one of the key findings was that person… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Zoe Vowles Background The MuM-PreDiCT study has found the number of women experiencing pregnancy with two or more… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Sally Darby The experience of pregnancy and of navigating maternity services can feel daunting and isolating. This… Read more…