AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By The AIMS Campaigns Team The Continuity of Midwifery Carer model of maternity care is being rolled out in Northern… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By the AIMS Management Team If you are reading this Journal you may already be an AIMS member, in which case, thank y… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Salli and her mum on a bench commemorating the midwife who attended when she was born. By Salli Ward I was born at ho… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Image source By Alex Smith Welcome to the September 2024 issue of the AIMS journal. The theme for this quarter explor… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Bernadett Kasza When I began my midwifery training, I was beaming with hope, eager to be ‘with woman’ and fulfil m… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Transference By Adeline McCann You held me And something took place Like magic You absorbed my turmoil Crushing it in… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 “ The way the world sees pregnancy is broken…and it’s our mission to change that! We’re teaching the world to trust i… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Jo Dagustun AIMS Volunteer, Jo Dagustun, reflects on her recent day out at the Northern Maternity and Midwifery Fe… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 After the birth of her baby, Rachel initially believed a midwife’s ill-considered throw-away comment. She writes: “ I… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Sarah Fisher looks back on her journeys to motherhood with new autistic insight, reflecting on the importance of havi… Read more…
AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 By Ryan Jones This is a journal article about trust, and it’s also a journal article about my journey to becoming a v… Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…