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Margaret Jowitt 1955 - 2025

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 It was with great sadness that we heard the news of Margaret Jowitt’s death earlier this year. Margaret had been a gr…   Read more…

Feeding your baby? Don’t let them lie to you.

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

Gabrielle Palmer, wrote her inspirational and eye-opening book, ‘The Politics of Breastfeeding’, in 1988 (3rd edition 2009). I bought it immediately a…   Read more…

A Conversation with Kate Evans, author of The Food of Love

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 Interview by Catharine Hart Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed by AIMS, Kate. I love that this book doesn't try…   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…

Motherhood - Am I on a different path?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 Image Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt By Jennifer Pearce A few days before my 21st birthday I was told by the hospit…   Read more…

What is causing women to fear physiological birth? How the UK maternity system is failing.

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Emily Burke With birth in the UK becoming an increasingly medicalised event, and intervention rates rising, many w…   Read more…

Integrating Evidence and Practice: Implementing Physiology-Informed Maternity Care in England

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Fedwa Harrak The National Health Service (NHS) in England emphasises evidence-based care, with most births taking…   Read more…

In the safety and privacy of one’s own home

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 Art by Sophie Jenna By Alex Smith What has physiological birth in the privacy of one’s own home got to do with the ma…   Read more…

Supporting physiological birth as a student midwife

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Lydia Barwood and Anna Jones Understanding student midwives’ experiences of supporting physiological birth is fund…   Read more…

My experience of physiology-informed maternity care as a pregnant woman living with diabetes

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Jane Furness In my experience in Northern Ireland, physiology is not on the radar of those providing maternity car…   Read more…

Case Study: Rebozo

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Julia Mihaylov A rebozo may well be something that you haven’t come across before - it is a colourful traditional…   Read more…

The Natural (Gentle) Caesarean

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Jenny Smith The background Caesarean section is the commonest operation globally, and in some UK hospitals the com…   Read more…

Case Study: Biomechanics

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 Showcased by Catharine Hart AIMS is proud to showcase the work of Molly O’Brien, who teaches the course Biomechanics…   Read more…

Case Study: Optimal Cord Clamping

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 The AIMS PIMS (Physiology Informed Maternity Services) team discusses optimal (delayed or deferred) cord clamping - a…   Read more…

The Joys, Chaos, and Magic of Five Waterbirths: A Personal Journey

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Juliet Fisher Bringing five children into the world has been an incredible, wild, and deeply personal journey. Fro…   Read more…

Birth Activists Briefing: Latest data from MBRRACE and the PMRT review

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By The AIMS Campaigns team MBRRACE Data brief on maternal mortality In addition to their in-depth reports “Saving Liv…   Read more…

Is it time for an “oxytocin-based” maternity system?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 AIMS comments on a blog post by Toni Harman's blog post Is it time for an “oxytocin-based” maternity system? In her b…   Read more…

Reflections on the birth of my first child, Rory, 43 years ago.

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Noreen O'Dwyer Hart I love Birthdays, if we are fortunate, they are often so beautifully layered with memories, re…   Read more…

The benefits of physiology-informed maternity services in high risk situations

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Naomi Glass I was born in 1983 into an Ashkenazi Jewish family, whose roots largely came from central and eastern…   Read more…

Reclaiming Birth: Trusting the Body Within a Physiology-Informed Maternity System

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Sallyann Beresford In today’s maternity system, the most radical choice it seems a woman can make is to reject int…   Read more…

Review of the new book, ‘Born Stroppy’ by Ruth Weston

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 Born Stroppy By Ruth Weston Published by Book Brilliance Publishing ISBN: 9781913770976 330 pages Publisher’s recomme…   Read more…

The Fabric of Birth: Part one

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By Nicole Schlögel “Iliopectineal line, iliopectineal eminence, pubic…”. We are halfway through the eight landmarks o…   Read more…

Reflections on attending the Inaugural Regional Maternity & Neonatal Conference in Belfast on 25th March

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By the AIMS Campaigns Team This was the first conference of its kind in Northern Ireland and it was a welcome recogni…   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…

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