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My experience of physiology-informed maternity care as a pregnant woman living with diabetes

Vol. 37, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Jane Furness In my experience in Northern Ireland, physiology is not on the radar of those providing maternity car…   Read more…

The Joys, Chaos, and Magic of Five Waterbirths: A Personal Journey

Vol. 37, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Juliet Fisher Bringing five children into the world has been an incredible, wild, and deeply personal journey. Fro…   Read more…

Becoming a grandparent

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Anne Glover ‘ If I’d known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have them first .’ Lois Wyse Expec…   Read more…

Being a grandmother

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 Editor's note: In writing this delightful account of being a grandmother, Alex's little granddaughter has added a few…   Read more…

Transition to Grandmothering

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Anne Hemsley I love being a grandmother, I simply cannot believe that I have been awarded this privileged position…   Read more…

Being Nana

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Salli Ward I chose to be Nana because I never had a Nana. I had Ordinary Grandma and Other Grandma but no Nana. My…   Read more…

Grandmother’s Day

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Maddie McMahon I am writing this on Grandmother’s Day: January 21st. But sadly, no one is marking it. No chocolate…   Read more…

A child is born into the world and their world is in silence

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 Image source By a hearing mother of a deaf baby I can share with you my experience as a hearing mother of a child who…   Read more…

Hearing impaired and giving birth during the pandemic

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 By Helen Jones-Grace I was pregnant during the first lockdown and gave birth during the second lockdown in February 2…   Read more…

Welcome to the Deaf Community – a lesson in miscommunication to new (hearing) parents

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 Image source By a hearing mother of a deaf baby Sat in the hospital ward, I snapped a cute picture on my phone of my…   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…

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…

Navigating a hospital mistake that could have changed everything

Vol. 36, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1 By Julia Mihaylov On the way to motherhood, every twist and turn draws a unique story, and my second pregnancy took a…   Read more…

My Complaint

Vol. 36, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1 Editor’s note: In this quite shocking account of disrespect and neglect, Grace describes the arrival of her first bab…   Read more…

I was nearly one of those induction statistics

Vol. 35, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 4 Editor’s note: While Jo remembers her ‘nearly induction’ experience with fortitude and pragmatism - I love the way th…   Read more…

Postpartum: A short story

Vol. 35, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 4 Editor’s note: This is a fictional account of the state of mind of a mother suffering postnatal illness. As such, it…   Read more…

A Mother’s Instinct

Vol. 35, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 2 By Deborah Maw My first baby was born in Eire, although we were living in Dumfries and Galloway at the time, 20 miles…   Read more…

This is his head, says the midwife

Vol. 34, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 4 To read or download this Journal as a PDF. Please click here . By Lizzy Lister This is his head , says the midwife pl…   Read more…

Birth Weights

Vol. 34, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 4 To read or download this Journal as a PDF. Please click here . By Danielle Gilmour 7,7; 8,4; 9,5 - These are numbers…   Read more…

My Instagram Birth Art

Vol. 34, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 4 To read or download this Journal as a PDF. Please click here . By Hannah Wood This is a picture of a pregnant me walk…   Read more…

Birth Art

Vol. 34, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 4 To read or download this Journal as a PDF. Please click here . By Mary Nolan My birth art relates to my second pregna…   Read more…

Guilty

Vol. 34, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . By Helen Ward Leese Helen with ba…   Read more…

Human rights in UK maternity services: moving from observation to action

Vol. 34, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . By Leigh Ham Human rights in mate…   Read more…

Newborn resuscitation without violence

Vol. 34, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . By Joanne Foster - a UK Resuscita…   Read more…

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