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A breech birth reflection

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 Jocelyn at the hospital 5 hours before her baby was born. By Jocelyn Allen It was June 2020 in Liverpool, England. Th…   Read more…

Mary Cronk MBE – Upholding the skills of attending breech birth

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Joy Horner For those who may not be familiar with the life and work of the late, great Mrs ("My friends call me Ma…   Read more…

Supporting informed choice for women with a breech-presenting baby at term: Challenges and opportunities for NHS maternity services

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Amy Meadowcroft, RM, MClinRes Introduction This article uses the terms “women” and “mothers” in relation to biolog…   Read more…

Imagining breech birth without borders

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Rixa Freeze, PhD For a long time, breech birth lived in my mind as a question I could not quite put down. It was n…   Read more…

Sovereignty of the body: Autonomy, strength, and transformation

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 Continuing to reflect on the theme of the June journal , newly qualified midwife Victoria Lemmon explores how a lack…   Read more…

Should we expect the maternity services to be competent to facilitate physiological vaginal breech birth where this is women’s choice?

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By the AIMS Campaigns Team A PIMS (Physiology Informed Maternity Services) group case study. Context: At present, the…   Read more…

Maternity Commissioner debate April 20th 2026: A personal review and a call for the normalisation of homebirth

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Gill Watson Westminster Hall debates are discussion debates only, so the Maternity Commissioner debate was unable…   Read more…

When choice isn’t really a choice: Finding confident support for vaginal breech birth

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Charlotte Butterworth-Pool When choice isn’t enough On paper the situation seems straight forward. Women and birth…   Read more…

The Amos Report - a personal reflection on making change in the maternity services

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Dr. Jo Dagustun Along with many of us working in the sector, I had to make space for some serious personal reflect…   Read more…

A personal response to the BBC Panorama programme: Maternity Failures: The Fight for Justice

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Jo Dagustun, AIMS Volunteer As this BBC One Panorama documentary 1 highlighted, maternity services too often suffe…   Read more…

The scan that couldn’t say: Informed decision-making when feet present first

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Hannah Northern Thakur A year ago, my son was born at home, right foot first ( you can read the birth story here )…   Read more…

Foot first: A breech home birth from the perspectives of mother and midwife

Vol. 38, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 When Hannah found that her second baby was breech she was forced to reconsider her h…   Read more…

Freebirth: The illusion of freedom

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 The theme of this issue of the AIMS journal is ‘sovereignty of the body’. Sovereignty of the body (or bodily autonomy…   Read more…

Sovereignty in Transition: The Inner Reorganisation of Pregnancy

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Sherine Lovegrove We are living in a time where women have risen beyond where they have ever been before. We are m…   Read more…

“Safe is not enough”: Sovereignty, medicalisation, and the role of the midwife

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Karen Lawrence “ Safe is not enough. What is the point in safe if you die inside yourself? How can you ever be saf…   Read more…

Reclaiming Birth Sovereignty: Through Us, the World is Born

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 This wonderful article is reprinted with the kind permission of Kai Njeri and Myrthe Glasbergen from Beyond Psycholog…   Read more…

Sovereignty and the Black and Brown Body in the Maternity System

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Mars Lord Sovereignty means ownership. It means the right to decide what happens to your body, on your terms, with…   Read more…

Sovereignty of the body: A reflection.

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Catherine Williams The Editor has asked me, as an AIMS volunteer, to say something about the origin of my (as she…   Read more…

Birth Sovereignty is Kindness

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Rebeka Tabobondung Giving birth has been the single most powerful moment of my life, one I now understand holds th…   Read more…

Sovereignty of the Body: Birth, Intuition, and the Art of Trust through the eyes of a painter

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Tamara Blakemore The First Breath I’m a birth artist, and apparently I’m here to talk about the sovereignty of the…   Read more…

Sovereign decisions about CTG monitoring: Having the courage of your convictions.

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 Inanna, Sumerian Queen of Heaven and Earth . 1 By Alex Smith and Dr Kirsten Small A sovereign decision, in keeping wi…   Read more…

REBIRTH FESTIVAL 2025

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 This talk is included with the kind permission of the speaker. We have linked it to the keynote talk given by AIMS vo…   Read more…

An interview with Katherine Hales

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 Interviewed by Jo Dagustun 1. Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed by AIMS, Katherine. To start, can you tell us…   Read more…

Planning Care: What One Hundred Families Have Taught Us About Placenta Accreta Spectrum

Vol. 38, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 Amisha Adhia, Founder, Action for Accreta, and Miss Chineze Otigbah, Consultant Obstetrician One Hundred Families Sin…   Read more…

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Imagining breech birth without bord…

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Rixa Freeze, PhD For a long time, breech birth lived in my mind as a question I could not quite put down. It was never just a clinical…

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Supporting informed choice for wome…

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Amy Meadowcroft, RM, MClinRes Introduction This article uses the terms “women” and “mothers” in relation to biological sex and reprodu…

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Mary Cronk MBE – Upholding the skil…

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AIMS Workshop: Focusing on Inductio…

Join us for one of our series of interactive online AIMS workshops, " Focusing on Induction of Labour ". Nadia Higson (principal author of "The AIMS Guide to Induction of…

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AIMS book launch and workshop: The…

To celebrate the launch of the new AIMS Guide to Breech Birth we are pleased to be holding a launch event with Joy Horner, the principle author. Joy will be sharing her o…

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Stephanie Ernst, founder of the TAPS Support Foundation, will be explaining the issues that can arise in different types of twin pregnancies, and what twins parents need…

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Open letter of welcome from AIMS to…

AIMS has written to welcome Robbie Butler to his new role as Northern Ireland's Health Minister. AIMS is asking him to continue to support the continuity of carer model o…

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Open Letter to Helen Morgan MP on "…

AIMS welcomes the motion F8 proposed by Helen Morgan MP to the Liberal Democrat Party Autumn Conference 2026 on the topic of tackling the maternity crisis. We have writte…

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The final Amos Report one month on:…

In this piece, a month following the publication of the ‘Amos Report’, the AIMS Campaigns Team sets out some high-level perspectives on the report. The team is now busy a…

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