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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 1 Introduction by Danielle Gilmour In our last Journal - 'Birth of a pandemic: How we coped' — we heard from mothers, h… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 1 By Sarah Jackson, my son, had his second birthday late in 2021. We decided to start a family before getting married a… Read more…