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Maternal Medicine Networks

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Natalie Whyte Maternal Medicine Networks were commissioned by NHS England in 2021 following MBRRACE reports showin…   Read more…

The Medication Dilemma in Pregnancy: Balancing Efficacy and Safety

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Dr Megha Singh, MuM-PreDiCT programme manager, and Dr Jingya Wang, epidemiologist, University of Birmingham Introd…   Read more…

Just Baby, Me and Multimorbidity: Where Did All the Care Go?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Dr Etomby Namme I was born with Sickle Cell Anaemia . My parents didn’t know it at the time, but after a couple of…   Read more…

Am I on a different path to everyone else? Will I be a mummy?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Mary Smith From a young age, my dream was to be a mother—at one point fantasising about having five kids! Growing…   Read more…

Conflicting advice for pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 Researchers Siang Ing Lee and Ngawai Moss report on the qualitative study they conducted to inform a core outcome set…   Read more…

Women, Pregnancy and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Cautions in the Age of Digital Maternity

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Christopher Yau, Nuffield Department for Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford on behalf of the MUM-…   Read more…

Personalising Women’s Care as a Midwife

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 “ Following the maternity review and the publication of Better Births in 2016 one of the key findings was that person…   Read more…

Maternity care co-ordination for women with two or more long-term health conditions (MLTC): The need for joined up care

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Zoe Vowles Background The MuM-PreDiCT study has found the number of women experiencing pregnancy with two or more…   Read more…

Communicating Risk in Pregnancy: Supporting Women with Multiple Long Term Health Conditions

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Sally Darby The experience of pregnancy and of navigating maternity services can feel daunting and isolating. This…   Read more…

Complex needs, complex solutions: Reflections on the launch of the MBRRACE report 2025

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Nadia Higson Attending the launch of the latest MBRRACE 1 report Saving Lives, Imp…   Read more…

The MuM-PreDiCT project: fact-finding and awareness-raising on pregnancy and multimorbidity

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Rachel Plachcinski, Patient and Public Involvement lead and co-investigator with the MuM-PreDICT project. Women of…   Read more…

Highlighting the time volunteers give to research projects and what we feel we contribute.

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By the AIMS Campaigns Team How AIMS contributes as a Patient and Public Involvement partner In addition to our own ca…   Read more…

Mental Health Matters

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 The precise definition of multiple long-term conditions, or multimorbidity, remains d…   Read more…

Women with Multiple Long-term Health Conditions in Pregnancy and Travel-Related Barriers to Quality Care

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Pavithra Harshani Warnakulasooriya and Mairead Black Access to safe, timely, and coordinated maternity care is a c…   Read more…

Midwifery matters: what does it mean to be committed to midwifery, and why is midwifery so important?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Claire Feeley and Jo Dagustun Jo The text I share with you below has been written by a midwife called Claire Feele…   Read more…

Why Fatherhood Solutions Matters - the first year

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Scott Mair, Founder and Director of Fatherhood Solutions Twelve months ago, we set out to make a bold, loud case f…   Read more…

Beguiling Baby Tech, Bewildering Bodies: Technological Creep Into Sacred Space

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Berlin Krebs I went into labour a little after midnight on June 7th. By late morning, my contractions were strong…   Read more…

Breastfeeding over the decades

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Anne Hemsley I often say that in life I never stop learning, when it comes to the subject of breastfeeding, I have…   Read more…

Breastfeeding trauma

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Nicola De Sousa Breastfeeding trauma is something I never thought about or knew about. I never even thought about…   Read more…

Disrupting breastfeeding confidence a drip at a time

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Alex Smith An increasing number of new mothers begin breastfeeding following a long drawn-out process of induction…   Read more…

Induction and breastfeeding

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Emma Laurinaviciene-Connor At every antenatal appointment I was asked “ How do you intend to feed your baby ?” to…   Read more…

AIMS Workshop: Technology in the perinatal period

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Kathryn Kelly Introduction In April I was delighted to be joined by eight people from both birth-worker and non-bi…   Read more…

The Fabric of Birth: Part two

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 In the second and final part of her fascinating article, Nicole continues to reflect on how the ‘mechanics of birth’,…   Read more…

Biological Nurturing: Closing the gaps in midwifery to support breastfeeding

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Joelle Colson and Suzanne Colson Biological nurturing (BN), a neurodevelopmental approach to breastfeeding, was cr…   Read more…

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