In this month’s edition of Essentially MIDIRS, Nadine Edwards and Mavis Kirkham explore the rising incidence of women choosing to birth outside of the NHS system within the UK. Here is a preview of their article, which includes interviews with women who chose to ‘freebirth’, as it is sometimes known....
The Information Services team at MIDIRS has developed a new pre-prepared literature search on clinical protocols and guidelines relating to home births in developed countries. Updated frequently, the Home birth – protocols & guidelines Search Pack includes items intended to provide clinical guidance for home births that focus on the...
‘The responses have been enlightening, as women embrace the opportunity to take back control of their own birth journey and utilise their right, one that all women should have, to choice, within a safe, evidence-based service that puts the woman and her family at the very centre of its being’....
This quarter’s MIDIRS Midwifery Digest includes a number of articles using this month’s Jubilee celebrations to look back on the last 60 years. Here’s a taster of Sheila Kitzinger’s passionate recollections and reflections: The last 60 years by Sheila Kitzinger. Excitement and the buzz of working together to reclaim birth...