By Gina Lowdon AIMS Journal 1998, Vol 10, No 3 There are widespread fears surrounding vaginal delivery of the breech presentation and a lack of inform… Read more…
By Mary Cronk, MBE AIMS Journal Autumn 1998, Vol 10 No 3 Mary Cronk, MBE is a well known and well respected independent midwife. During her many years… Read more…
AIMS Journal, Autumn 1998, Vol 10 No 3 By Jean Robinson What Do Doulas Do? Scans Don't Help Growth Retarded Babies Ultrasound Failure in Norway Caesar… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10, No 3 By Pat Thomas There can't be a breech mother alive who has not tried to turn her baby. AIMS receives a great many cal… Read more…
By Gina Lowdon AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10 No 3 Sometimes a breech presentation can be explained by the mother's pelvic shape, the position of the plac… Read more…
The Irish Way of Birth By Maire O Regan AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10 No 2 "As a human female physiologic process labour is both a universal phenomenon a… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1998, Volume 10, No 2 Companion article to Active Management of Labour - The Irish Way of Birth The examination to judge the exact begin… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10, No 2 Oxytocin (Syntocinon) is a very potent artificial hormone and its use in labour is intended to mimic the natural horm… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10, No 2 Companion article to Active Management of Labour - The Irish Way of Birth The most fundamental aspect of active manag… Read more…
By Jean Robinson AIMS Journal 1998, Vol 10, No 2 Walking in labour More thoughts on ultrasound Increase in birth defects Work and pregnancy Walking in… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1998, Vol 10 No 2 Readers of this Journal will know that we have devoted a great deal of space (not to mention time and effort) in the c… Read more…
By Beverley A Lawrence Beech AIMS Journal 1998, Volume 10, No 1 Epidural anaesthesia was developed by a German anaesthetist, Stoeckel, in the early 19… Read more…
By Pat Thomas AIMS Journal 1998, Volume 10 No 1 All women use pain relief in labour. Their methods can range from self-help techniques such as being u… Read more…
By Beverley A Lawrence Beech AIMS Journal, 1993, Volume 10, No 1 Pethidine is a synthetic, addictive, narcotic drug which is similar to Morphine. It i… Read more…
By Jean Robinson AIMS Journal,1998, Vol 10 No 1 Risks of giving birth at night Risks of hospital antenatal care Long-term effects of postnatal depress… Read more…
AIMS Journal 1998, Vol 10, No. 4 Birmingham NEC 10 November 1998. This is a personal view. Four of us (2 professional and 2 lay) travelled to Birmingh… Read more…
By Jean Robinson AIMS Journal 1997, Vol 9, No 3 When I first read the early reports that folic acid and vitamins might prevent neural tube defects lik… Read more…
Normal birth is something to which the majority of expectant women aspire. Many women attend antenatal classes to prepare them for normal birth, and m… Read more…
These are practices which the World Health Organization has identified as clearly harmful or ineffective and which should be eliminated: Routine use o… Read more…
Debbie gives an account of her three caesarean births and then the home birth of her fourth child. Phillippa I confidently booked to have my first bab… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Convention for the Protect… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 In December, I received a distressing letter from a woman in Holloway Prison describing the appalling conditions ther… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 37% increase in the total number of women in prison (1,573 in Dec 1993, 2,150 in Dec 1995). 16% increase in the total… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 April 1994: Susan Edwards is shackled to two prison officers as she gave birth at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Mancheste… Read more…