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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…