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…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 In November 1995, Sheila Kitzinger lobbied some of the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, by Jan… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 I am writing from Holloway Prison, as a pregnant mother to be, since my arrival, I have suffered not only physically,… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 In December 1995, the new Chief Inspector of prisons, General Sir David Ramsbotham, took the unprecedented step of wi… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 The Hospital’s view On the 20 th November 1995 AIMS wrote to the Director of Women’s Services at the Whittington Hosp… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 “The Prison Service practice of chaining and shackling pregnant women is reprehensible. lt is a totally inappropriate… Read more…
AIMS sent a fax to the members of ENCA, the European Network of Childbirth Organisations asking them for information about the treatment of pregnant w… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 On visiting a friend at the Whittington Hospital in December 1995 I can only say I was appalled and shocked to see a… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 Last August I spent a week at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, after the birth of my daughter. During my stay, l w… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 Everyone realises that there may be particular ethical difficulties in conducting research on children, the mentally… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 A major study from Norway has shown mothers who have already had a baby with a birth defect may increase their chance… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 Ishbel Kargar, ARM midwives and Chris Rodgers and Sandar Warshal from AIMS picketed the UKCC formal dinner evening at… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1995/6, Vol 7 No 4 Debate: This house believes that Caesarean section rates in the UK are too high. This meeting (Tues. 12 Dec 1995) was… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 1990, Vol 2, No 2 Susan McIntosh I very nearly died 7 and a half months ago at Odstock Hospital, having my first child. I suffer from fl… Read more…