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Birth Activists Briefing: Why it’s important for you to get involved in your local Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP)

Vol. 33, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 3 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By the AIMS Campaigns Team Maternit…   Read more…

AIMS Commentary: the OASI care bundle debate

Vol. 33, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 3 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here by the AIMS Campaigns Team The pros…   Read more…

An Interview with Kuldip Bharj by the AIMS Campaigns Team

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Kuldip Bharj Many different organis…   Read more…

Martine Monksfield: A Deaf Mum’s maternity experience

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Martine Monksfield It was quite…   Read more…

Campaign update: Coronavirus and the maternity services

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here by the AIMS Campaigns Team Througho…   Read more…

Comment on MBRRACE-UK 2019 Perinatal Confidential Enquiry: Stillbirths and neonatal deaths in twin pregnancies

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Shane Ridley Trustee and Publica…   Read more…

Where is the village?

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Beth Whitehead Birth is one of t…   Read more…

Review of the Spanish documentary Birth in the 21st Century

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Birth in the 21 st Century is a Spa…   Read more…

Being in-between: An interview with an interpreter

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Katharine Handel Zori Jeffries Inte…   Read more…

Understanding Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP): The power of women coming together

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Jenny Chambers In this article,…   Read more…

Listening to the pregnant body

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Editor's note: The theme of this is…   Read more…

Review of Pieces of a Woman

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Birth on Film Pieces of a Woman Dir…   Read more…

Where next for Better Births in England? Baroness Julia Cumberlege looks to the future

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By the AIMS Campaigns Team At the e…   Read more…

Birth and family traditions in Fiji

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Siteri Tui Kurewaka; compiled by…   Read more…

The Experience of Pregnancy in the British Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Sophie Davies Introduction Gypsy…   Read more…

Placing the Ockenden Report in context

Vol. 33, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2022, Vol 34, No 2 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here . By Cyril Chantler The Ockenden re…   Read more…

Mothers are doing it for each other: A conversation with The Motherkind Café

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Katharine Handel Illustration by…   Read more…

Salutogenesis: how philosophy shapes practice

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Alex Smith Life on Pathogenia: a…   Read more…

Self Efficacy: What is it? Why is it important? And what can we do about it?

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Mary Nolan, Professor of Perinat…   Read more…

Introducing “They said to me”: Giving voice to the voiceless

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Samantha Gadsden They Said To Me…   Read more…

An Interview with Soo Downe by the AIMS Campaigns Team

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here Soo Downe Interview by Jo Dagustun…   Read more…

Yoga: A time for me and a time for my baby

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Cathy Welch While I was ruminati…   Read more…

Getting to grips with the first Ockenden Report and what it means for the Maternity Transformation Programme

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By the AIMS Campaigns Team Donna Oc…   Read more…

AIMS Commentary on the Ockenden Interim Report, published on 10 December 2020

Vol. 33, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2021, Vol 33, No 1 To read or download this Journal in a magazine format on ISSUU, please click here By Anna Madeley AIMS welcomes the p…   Read more…

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