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Editorial: Bottom’s down!

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

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Alex Smith Welcome to the September 2026 issue of the AIMS journal, Bottoms Down! One of my favourite birth storie…   Read more…

The sovereignty of the body in pregnancy and childbirth

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

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 2 By Alex Smith Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the AIMS journal. This issue is about the sovereignty of the body i…   Read more…

Editorial: Improving maternity care for all

Vol. 37, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Alex Smith Welcome to the December 2025 issue of the AIMS journal. Building on last summer’s edition, ‘ When the M…   Read more…

Editorial: Thinking about breastfeeding

Vol. 37, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 Welcome to the September 2025 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter is breastfeeding. An important is…   Read more…

Editorial: Women in labour - Do not disturb

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By guest editor, Catharine Hart A very warm welcome to our special June 2025 edition of the AIMS Journal – all about…   Read more…

Silencing the grandmothers? Not AIMS!

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Alex Smith Welcome to the March 2025 edition of the AIMS journal. This issue is about grandparents, and about gran…   Read more…

Editorial: Hello and welcome. How are you?

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

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 Sign images from british-sign.co.uk By Alex Smith Welcome to the December 2024 edition of the AIMS journal. The theme…   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 Image source By Alex Smith Welcome to the September 2024 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter explor…   Read more…

Editorial - When the mother is unwell

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

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Christian Krohg (1852–1925) By Alex Smith Welcome to the June 2024 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this issu…   Read more…

Editorial: I am writing to make a complaint

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

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1 By Alex Smith Welcome to the 2024 March issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter focuses on the experien…   Read more…

Editorial - Mixed feelings

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

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 4 Paintings by Andrea Mantegna and Harry Morley By Alex Smith Welcome to the December issue of the AIMS journal, which…   Read more…

Editorial - We were there

Vol. 35, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

Editorial: We were there Image source By Alex Smith Welcome to the September issue of the journal. We open with four different birth-related memories.…   Read more…

Birthplace dreams, instincts and lived experience

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

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 2 By Alex Smith Welcome to the June issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter is birthplace. Just for a mom…   Read more…

Why does physiological birth matter?

Vol. 35, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 1 To read or download this Journal as a PDF. Please click here . The theme for the March 2023 issue of the AIMS journal…   Read more…

Birth: it wasn’t a pretty picture

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 Alex Smith The theme of this December edition of th…   Read more…

Editorial: Once Upon a Birth

Vol. 34, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 3 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . Salli Ward “ I did this for the n…   Read more…

Editorial: The label of ‘high risk’: the promise of gentle and attentive care, or a first violence in pregnancy?

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 Alex Smith In 2011, Vicki Will…   Read more…

Editorial March 2022

Vol. 34, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 1 Salli with granddaughter, Amara By Salli Ward Well, that’s the pandemic done with then… Obviously not, and its shadow…   Read more…

Aims Editorial December 2021: What just happened?

Vol. 33, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 4 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . Alex Smith The title of the edito…   Read more…

September Editorial: Are you sitting comfortably?

Vol. 33, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 3 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Alex Smith How better to start a…   Read more…

A Plurality of Births: Languages, Places, Communities

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Image source Editorial by Luisa Izz…   Read more…

Editorial: Salutogenesis - Putting the health back into healthcare

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Alex Smith The theme for our Mar…   Read more…

Editorial – The Use of Social Media in Pregnancy and Early Parenthood

Vol. 32, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2020, Vol 32, No 4 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Journal editors Katharine Handel…   Read more…

Looking back to move forward

Vol. 32, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here AIMS Journal, 2020, Vol 32, No 3 By Debbie Chippington Derrick AIMS…   Read more…

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