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Guest blog: New tools to help you support smokefree pregnancies
As midwives are well aware, stopping smoking is one of the best things a woman and her partner can do to protect the health of their baby through pregnancy and beyond. But you may not be aware that in recent years the percentage of women recorded ...![Breastfeeding](/media/3425/1403rcmguysstt181.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132048070840000000)
Breastfeeding Celebration Week 2019
As 17th June is the start of Breastfeeding Celebration Week, let’s take a moment to reflect on the many benefits of breastfeeding and why it is something so worth celebrating.![](/media/3412/w.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132041971280000000)
Women Deliver International Conference
Women Deliver is the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women. Occurring every three years, the theme of #WD2019 is ‘Power, Progress and Change’ or, put differently, power, and how ...![](/media/3393/smoking.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132035201530000000)
Smokefree
As midwives caring for women we have all listened to these sheepish confessions: ‘I know it’s bad… but I only smoke one or two in the evening… once the kids are in bed… it really is one of life’s few pleasures… something just for me….’.![](/media/3391/oasi-carebundle.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132042393140000000)
OASI Care Bundle RCM and RCOG comment
In 2014 the RCM and the RCOG decided that something needed to be done to address the increasing rates of OASI (obstetric anal sphincter injury). OASI has an enormous negative impact on the lives of those affected. Following a round table discussion ...![](/media/3392/cara-blog-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=467&height=720&rnd=132042391930000000)
Student Midwife Cara Evans on her elective at RCM
Before making the trip down to London to carry out my elective at the Royal College of Midwives, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Despite having worked alongside the RCM at several points throughout my studies, I wanted to know exactly how the RCM ...![](/media/3389/bangladesh-nafiza-anwar.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132029904420000000)
Bangladesh here I come
After finding out that the RCM were involved with a Twinning project in Bangladesh it really ignited my desire to be able to support and give something back to my ethnic origins. After expressing my interest to the RCM I was recruited as a volunteer ...![](/media/3368/180119_nspcc_conversation_0217-2.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132005698240000000)
Guest blog: A day in the life of a perinatal programme practitioner
Nikki Rhys-Jones is a specialist midwife who joined the NSPCC in 2012. Nikki has been delivering Baby Steps, a perinatal education programme, for five years and in that time she has run 69 groups in Swansea and Bridgend. She lives in Cardiff and ...Guest blog: Brenda McCabe on winning Emma's Diary 'Mums' Midwife of the Year at RCM Awards 2019
I was nominated for the RCM's Emma's Diary Mums' Midwife of the Year award' by an exceptional lady, wife and mother of two beautiful children, Sarah Griffiths. I was completely taken aback that Sarah felt my care had such a positive impact that ...![](/media/3366/pride.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132004829080000000)