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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…

Covid-19 and the UK’s Maternity Services

Vol. 32, No. 2, 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 2 By Emma Ashworth The first Journal…   Read more…

Editorial: Breaking Down the Barriers to VBAC

Vol. 32, No. 1, 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 1 By Emma Ashworth It is estimated th…   Read more…

Hysterical women and their hormones

Vol. 31, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2019, Vol 31, No 4 By Emma Ashworth The suffix 'ectomy' means means to surgically remove a part of the body. So, for instance, removal o…   Read more…

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