Why do it at all?

TV actress, Kate Ford, has pledged her personal support to MIDIRS 10K run fundraising campaign, ‘Running for your little lives’, in aid of mother and baby charity Baby Lifeline.

Taking my lead from Soo Downe’s article on the continuing debate around the physical location for labour and childbirth presents me with a great opportunity to look at the most popular, and probably, most essential Informed Choice title in facilitating choice for mothers-to-be… Place of birth. This title is currently being reviewed, so this column makes reference to the existing version, which will be superseded in the next few months.

Childbirth affects hundreds of thousands of UK women, babies, and families annually.

Zuzana Stromerova - midwife, founder and manager of the Birth House at Stork in Prague, focuses on those factors which are currently preventing the further development of midwifery education in the Czech Republic and how these factors might be overcome.