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Exploring trust within the midwife-mother relationship

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Dr Marie Lewis (RM BSC MA Phd) This paper is a personal reflection on the journey of trust within the midwife-moth…   Read more…

Continuity Matters - Women’s Voices

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By The AIMS Campaigns Team The Continuity of Midwifery Carer model of maternity care is being rolled out in Northern…   Read more…

Why be an AIMS member?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS Management Team If you are reading this Journal you may already be an AIMS member, in which case, thank y…   Read more…

Trusting myself in birth

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Salli and her mum on a bench commemorating the midwife who attended when she was born. By Salli Ward I was born at ho…   Read more…

Editorial - Trust and responsibility: Going with the flow

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Alex Smith Welcome to the September 2024 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter explores different…   Read more…

An invitation to contemplate the meaning of trust

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Bernadett Kasza When I began my midwifery training, I was beaming with hope, eager to be ‘with woman’ and fulfil m…   Read more…

Two Poems

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Transference By Adeline McCann You held me And something took place Like magic You absorbed my turmoil Crushing it in…   Read more…

An interview with Dr Malika M. Bonapace, D.Psy

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 “ The way the world sees pregnancy is broken…and it’s our mission to change that! We’re teaching the world to trust i…   Read more…

Get out there and conference!

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Jo Dagustun AIMS Volunteer, Jo Dagustun, reflects on her recent day out at the Northern Maternity and Midwifery Fe…   Read more…

We always have a choice, no matter how much we are made to feel otherwise

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 After the birth of her baby, Rachel initially believed a midwife’s ill-considered throw-away comment. She writes: “ I…   Read more…

Revisiting pregnancy and birth through an autistic lens

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Sarah Fisher looks back on her journeys to motherhood with new autistic insight, reflecting on the importance of havi…   Read more…

Issues of trust led to me becoming a volunteer for AIMS

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Ryan Jones This is a journal article about trust, and it’s also a journal article about my journey to becoming a v…   Read more…

Getting on my soapbox on the theme of trust: what’s in a name, and do you trust your local NHS Trust?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Jo Dagustun I’m worried about the way we are compelled to recognise and refer to much of our local NHS service as…   Read more…

I trust we can change

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Claire Dunn I found myself sitting in the waiting room of a prestigious hospital in West London pondering what lay…   Read more…

Black Trust Within Maternity

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Mars Lord The NHS is made up of hundreds of different organisations of differing sizes at central, national, regio…   Read more…

What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS CAmpaigns Team Written outputs: AIMS response to APPG Birth Trauma Inquiry 20th June: Completed survey fo…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - September 2024

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Update by the AIMS Campaigns Team In June Catharine from the PIMS team featured on the Blossoming Midwife podcast whi…   Read more…

AIMS is concerned about the accessibility of CQC local maternity service ratings: should you be too?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Women have a choice about which local maternity service they want to support them through…   Read more…

Trust in maternity care – Going, going, gone?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Mary Nolan While in this article, ‘woman’, ‘women’, ‘she’ and ‘her’ are used to refer to the person giving birth,…   Read more…

The Physiology of Trust

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Kath Revell Feeling safe is the prerequisite for physiological birth (Michel Odent). 1 If a mother has to be on he…   Read more…

A review of the Joint position statement: ‘Substandard and disrespectful care in labour – because words matter’.

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

[1] AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 This is the joint statement of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM), the European Board and Coll…   Read more…

Mental health and pregnancy - Phoebe’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Phoebe Howe In early 2016, I was diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD, formally known as…   Read more…

Pelvic floor health - “I wish I’d known this sooner”

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Lara Watson “I wish I’d known this sooner” - A sentiment I often hear from women consulting me over intimate healt…   Read more…

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Claire’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Claire Sheppard There are significant dates in everyone's life that suddenly change their path forever. For me, th…   Read more…

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Issues of trust led to me becoming…

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Ryan Jones This is a journal article about trust, and it’s also a journal article about my journey to becoming a volunteer at AIMS. I…

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I trust we can change

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Editorial - Trust and responsibilit…

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NICE Maternal and Child Nutrition S…

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AIMS Letter to Wes Streeting

AIMS has written to Wes Streeting MP, welcoming him to the role of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. We acknowledge his awareness that maternity services are…

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This is an edited version of an invited talk given by Jo Dagustun, AIMS Campaigns Team, to the International Labour and Birth Research Conference UK, 24 - 26 April 2023.…

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