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Bernadette Gregory, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, describes a project to teach student midwives basic British Sign Language.
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Practical information and peer support for disabled parents
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Elaine McEwan Carty, Tali A Conine and Lorraine Hall from the School of Nursing in Vancouver, Canada, discuss guidelines for supporting pregnant, deaf women.
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Deborah Kitson, Chief Executive Officer, and Joanna Leaviss, Project Co-ordinator from the Ann Craft Trust (ACT), UK, describe a project to develop a learning disability training programme for professionals who support parents in pregnancy and early...
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Elaine McEwan Carty, Tali A Conine and Lorraine Hall from the School of Nursing in Vancouver, Canada, discuss guidelines for supporting pregnant, disabled women.
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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in the UK is currently running a Campaign for Normal Birth to help change the way that childbirth happens.
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There are various obstetric reasons why any woman may be advised to have her baby delivered by Caesarean section. Clare Brook has a back condition: mechanical instability compounded by chronic pain syndrome. Here she talks about why and how she made...
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Isabella Devani, a disabled mother from east Kent, UK, describes the ways in which disabled parents in east Kent are changing NHS maternity services.
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Julie Brown is Parentcraft Co-ordinator at the antenatal Clinic, University Hospital NHS Trust, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. She describes the achievements of a multi-professional working group that has developed new systems for refe...
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Zita Killick, Senior Lecturer (Midwifery), Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex, UK, reviews the Reaching Out Project resource. Available from The Reaching Out Project, Medact. E-mail: info@medact.org. www.medact.org
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Julie Brown, midwifery practice leader in antenatal education at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK, reviews Disability in pregnancy and childbirth by Stella McKay-Moffat. 2007, Liverpool, Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN 0443103186 Price: £24...
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In journal 53/54, we outlined an innovative disability module offered to midwifery students at Anglia Ruskin University. Here, former students Jane Martin and Julie Williams, now practising midwives, describe the practical steps they have taken to en...
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Jackie Rotheram, disabled mother, midwife and founder of the first specialist midwifery service for disabled women, based in Liverpool Women’s Hospital, UK, calls for changes in attitudes towards woman-led service provision in nursing and midwi...
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This long-anticipated National Service Framework – which has much to say about disadvantaged groups, including disabled parents – is much welcomed, and offers an energising vision to overcome barriers to maternity services. Michele Wates...
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A hospital in South West England has developed a remarkable V - inter-disciplinary initiative to provide better support for mothers with arthritic conditions. It provides an excellent model of good practice - demonstrating the advantages of improving...
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After an introduction from DPPI, here are two accounts of disabled women who have recently given birth in water and that of one of their midwives.
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