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Antenatal Education in Imaginary Hindsight.

Vol. 38, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 An Editorial foreword: As an antenatal educator I would often invite the expectant parents to imagine that their baby…   Read more…

What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter?

Vol. 38, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 1 By The AIMS Campaigns Team Published written outputs: 8th November: AIMS Response to the NHS 10 Year Workforce Plan C…   Read more…

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…

Editorial: Improving maternity care for all

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By Alex Smith Welcome to the December 2025 issue of the AIMS journal. Building on last summer’s edition, ‘ When the M…   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…

What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter?

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter? By The AIMS Campaigns Team Published written outputs: 19th…   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…

Birth Activists Briefing: NMPA State of the Nation Report for 2023

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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By The AIMS Campaigns Team In September 2025, the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) belatedly published t…   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…

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Imagining breech birth without bord…

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Rixa Freeze, PhD For a long time, breech birth lived in my mind as a question I could not quite put down. It was never just a clinical…

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Supporting informed choice for wome…

AIMS Journal, 2026, Vol 38, No 3 By Amy Meadowcroft, RM, MClinRes Introduction This article uses the terms “women” and “mothers” in relation to biological sex and reprodu…

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Mary Cronk MBE – Upholding the skil…

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Events

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AIMS Workshop: Focusing on Inductio…

Join us for one of our series of interactive online AIMS workshops, " Focusing on Induction of Labour ". Nadia Higson (principal author of "The AIMS Guide to Induction of…

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AIMS book launch and workshop: The…

To celebrate the launch of the new AIMS Guide to Breech Birth we are pleased to be holding a launch event with Joy Horner, the principle author. Joy will be sharing her o…

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AIMS Workshop: Understanding Twin T…

Stephanie Ernst, founder of the TAPS Support Foundation, will be explaining the issues that can arise in different types of twin pregnancies, and what twins parents need…

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Latest Campaigns

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National maternity and neonatal ser…

By Jo Dagustun on behalf of the AIMS Campaigns Team In this briefing note, Jo offers an account of what has been happening following Wes Streeting’s 2024 commitment to ov…

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Scottish Perinatal Framework: Alter…

AIMS was set to review the document Framework for maternity healthcare professionals to support individualised care for women who choose alternative/non-standard birth ch…

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Open letter of welcome from AIMS to…

AIMS has written to welcome Robbie Butler to his new role as Northern Ireland's Health Minister. AIMS is asking him to continue to support the continuity of carer model o…

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