Welcome to MIDIRS Podcasts:

MIDIRS Podcasts offer you access to a whole range of maternity-related information, including topics of interest and practical guidance that you can access at a time and location that suits you.

Maintaining your professional knowledge and awareness of the latest research evidence and practice developments can be challenging; it is, however, an essential part of your professional role. MIDIRS evolving programme of Podcasts is designed to support you in meeting your PREP continuing professional development (CPD) requirements and maintaining awareness of different aspects of clinical practice.

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Date: 26/06/2009 Induction of labour


Dr Sara Wickham


'Within Western society, 20 per cent of women now have their labours artificially induced. Consequently, induction of labour has become a huge issue within modern maternity care. ...

Date: 25/06/2009 A simple guide to critiquing research articl...


Colin Rees


Midwifery practice should be influenced by the best information available. However, when this takes the form of research articles, it can be difficult to know if the work is sound, and fit for purpose...

Date: 25/06/2009 Cup feeding revisited


Sharon Trotter


Following the successful podcast ‘Skin deep: neonatal skin/cord care’, we were pleased to invite Sharon Trotter, midwife, mother and author, back to present her work on cup feeding. Whilst researchin...

Date: 25/06/2009 Division of tongue tie


Rachel Hillan


Rachel Hillan's podcast focuses on the condition of tongue tie, also known as ankyloglossia, and its problems in relation to breastfeeding. ...

Date: 25/06/2009 Facing issues in practice that are controver...


Dr Sara Wickham


This podcast explores some of the issues behind prophylaxis in general and antenatal anti-D in particular. It explores the nature of prophylaxis, the different standpoints that exist in relation to th...

Date: 25/06/2009 Finding your way through the information maz...


MIDIRS information team


This podcast provides practical guidance on using the MIDIRS Reference Database (OLS)....

Date: 25/06/2009 Is midwives' use of complementary therapies ...


Denise Tiran


Denise Tiran is an internationally-renowned authority on maternity-related complementary therapies and is particularly interested in the safety of different therapies during pregnancy and childbirth, ...

Date: 25/06/2009 Knowledge for practice


Sally Price


In this podcast, Sally Price shares with you her own experiences of being a student midwife, offers tips on the educational resources and strategies that she found most helpful to her studies, and tal...

Date: 25/06/2009 Normal birth


Dr Denis Walsh


The normal childbirth agenda is alive and well in the UK and examples of innovative models are growing. An evidence paradigm is supportive of normal birth in the main; however, preference in evidence ...

Date: 25/06/2009 Normal neonatal behaviour and the psychology...


Dr Joanna Hawthorne-Amick


This podcast is presented by Research Psychologist, Dr Joanna Hawthorne-Amick, who talks about understanding how babies communicate and how we, as midwives, can help parents read their babies signals ...

1. Normal birth
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2. Knowledge for practice
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3. Induction of labour
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4. A simple guide to critiquing research articles
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5. Planning a research study
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