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From the Editor - August, Issue 41

This month's Essence raises awareness of a new DVD resource which aims to empower and show parents how to care for their baby when they have been born under difficult circumstances. Also designed to help health care professionals better enable parents to play a pivotal role in the care of their premature and sick babies, this promises to be an excellent resource and one to look out for when it is launched in 2011.

Our new monthly journal, Essentially MIDIRS, continues to draw the attention of a wide sector of maternity care workers. The Personal Reflective Learning Log (PeRLL), a special two page tear-out section which appears at the back of the journal and which can be used as a tool to record reading, learning and reflection, is highlighted in this issue of Essence. If you have not already subscribed to receive your own personal copy of Essentially MIDIRS, then please visit www.midirs.org/em.

We are always keen to hear how MIDIRS resources have helped you in your practice and/or studies, so please email me at spenn@midirs.org, to share your thoughts with other readers.

From the MIDIRS Essence Team

Child health charity produces new educational DVD - aimed at parents of sick and premature babies

A new DVD resource aimed at parents of sick and premature babies and the health care professionals who support them, is currently in production.

It will be the first educational DVD of its kind, following real parents’ experiences of having a sick or premature baby in the UK.

While the survival rates and longer-term outlook for babies who are born prematurely and/or sick continue to improve, the stress and crisis that surround the birth of such vulnerable infants is unchanging.

Parents who have premature/sick babies can find themselves grieving for the healthy term baby that they had anticipated. Where many parents may have already had an image of their newborn baby fixed in their minds, the physical app...

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MIDIRS new clinical sites resource

Maternity health care professionals and midwifery students worldwide rely on MIDIRS evidence-based resources to support them and keep them abreast of the latest developments in midwifery and obstetric practice.

Working in collaboration not in competition

I was very grateful to Sheena Byrom, Consultant Midwife at University of Central Lancashire, for sending an article to me for the June issue of the Digest which demonstrated how a team of health carers had all worked together to support a mother in the second stage of labour (Byrom et al 2010).

Infant massage for children with disabilities and special needs

Anita Epple, infant massage teacher, trainer and author, gives an insightful view of how positive touch and infant massage can benefit both babies and parents.

Essentially MIDIRS - did you know?

MIDIRS new monthly journal, Essentially MIDIRS, includes a tool for midwives, midwifery students and others working in birth-related fields to record their reading, learning and reflection.

Upcoming Events

The First Global Conference of the Doctoral Midwifery Research Society
1 Sep 2010 | Northern Ireland

Uncertainty and loss in maternity and neonatal care
16 Sep 2010 | London

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