AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By founders Claire Barlow and Jenn Kenworthy Maternal Pituitary Support was established in February 2022. It is a not… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 In this article, independent midwife and IBCLC lactation consultant Lucy Moggridge describes the pitiful lack of educ… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Dr Jude Field and Jenny Cunningham The UK’s top 10 midwifery practice and maternity care research priorities are h… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3 By Joelle Colson and Suzanne Colson Throughout recent history, infant feeding practices have evolved based on cultura… 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 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 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 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 By Nicole Schlögel “Iliopectineal line, iliopectineal eminence, pubic…”. We are halfway through the eight landmarks o… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 My maternal grandmother, Herta, and my paternal grandmother, Mina By Naomi Glass We are all born into a family story.… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 Image source By Alex Smith Epigenetics is a fairly new science, but not a newly observed phenomenon. It studies the w… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 Art by Sophie Jenna Latest update from the PIMS team! The NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) rece… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By Mary Nolan Quite a long time ago, I was at a lecture given by a senior obstetrician whom I had worked under as a s… Read more…