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Getting on my soapbox on the theme of trust: what’s in a name, and do you trust your local NHS Trust?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Jo Dagustun I’m worried about the way we are compelled to recognise and refer to much of our local NHS service as…   Read more…

I trust we can change

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Claire Dunn I found myself sitting in the waiting room of a prestigious hospital in West London pondering what lay…   Read more…

Black Trust Within Maternity

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Mars Lord The NHS is made up of hundreds of different organisations of differing sizes at central, national, regio…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: AIMS response to APPG Birth Trauma Inquiry 20th June: Completed survey fo…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - September 2024

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Update by the AIMS Campaigns Team In June Catharine from the PIMS team featured on the Blossoming Midwife podcast whi…   Read more…

AIMS is concerned about the accessibility of CQC local maternity service ratings: should you be too?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Women have a choice about which local maternity service they want to support them through…   Read more…

Trust in maternity care – Going, going, gone?

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Mary Nolan While in this article, ‘woman’, ‘women’, ‘she’ and ‘her’ are used to refer to the person giving birth,…   Read more…

The Physiology of Trust

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Kath Revell Feeling safe is the prerequisite for physiological birth (Michel Odent). 1 If a mother has to be on he…   Read more…

A review of the Joint position statement: ‘Substandard and disrespectful care in labour – because words matter’.

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

[1] AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 This is the joint statement of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM), the European Board and Coll…   Read more…

Mental health and pregnancy - Phoebe’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Phoebe Howe In early 2016, I was diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD, formally known as…   Read more…

Pelvic floor health - “I wish I’d known this sooner”

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Lara Watson “I wish I’d known this sooner” - A sentiment I often hear from women consulting me over intimate healt…   Read more…

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Claire’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Claire Sheppard There are significant dates in everyone's life that suddenly change their path forever. For me, th…   Read more…

Generalised hypermobility: Emma’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Emma Dickinson I've got a condition referred to as generalised hypermobility. I'm actually under the hospital to f…   Read more…

Type 1 diabetes and maternity care: Jane’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Jane Furness My daughter is two and a half years old now, but I still have daily flashbacks of our pregnancy and b…   Read more…

Epilepsy and pregnancy

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Kim Morley is a nurse and midwife with advanced qualifications who has been instrumental in providing specialised car…   Read more…

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Peripartum Cardiomyopathy By Rebecca Jarman RM Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare but potentially life-threat…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: 5th February: AIMS Submission to the Birth Trauma APPG 1st March: comment…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - April 2024

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Campaign Group Update Introduction A few members of the Campaigns Team meet regularly to focus on work related to the…   Read more…

Doula UK online Conference 2024: Inspire & Connect

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Anne Glover This annual conference, held from the 22nd to the 24th of March, was as interesting and packed with pe…   Read more…

Continuity of Carer Corner – April 2024

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 From the AIMS Continuity of Carer Campaign Group Introduction Every couple of months a small group of AIMS volunteers…   Read more…

Type 1 diabetes - given my time again: Victoria’s story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Victoria Rixon In 2019, at 26 weeks pregnant, I was admitted to hospital with sickness, headache, raised blood pre…   Read more…

Pre-eclampsia: Eliza’s birth story

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Catharine Hart describes developing pre-eclampsia in pregnancy and an emergency caesarean section with her daughter E…   Read more…

Pregnancy, Childbirth and Marfan Syndrome

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Editor’s note: In this very interesting article, Victoria Hilton from the Marfan Trust writes about the genetic condi…   Read more…

Editorial - When the mother is unwell

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Christian Krohg (1852–1925) By Alex Smith Welcome to the June 2024 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this issu…   Read more…

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