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February 24, 2018 Uncategorized

Come back, Ten Top Tips! Normal Birth needs you.

Once upon a slow news week in summer 2017, UK journalists lazily latched onto an out of date factoid: that

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March 26, 2017 Uncategorized

Breech holiday, Frankfurt

Justifying to a seven-year-old Anubis why I’m going to Germany for my week off – and missing mothers’ day, helped crystallise

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March 26, 2017 Uncategorized

Humanization of Childbirth in Brazil

Such is the force of the humanization movement in Brazil, that the IV International Conference on Humanization of Childbirth took

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October 14, 2016 Uncategorized

Adelir is becoming a midwife: “Life gave me a lemon – I’m making lemonade”

  Who remembers Adelir ‘#weareallAdelir‘ Góes? In 2014, the case of a woman from Torres in Rio Grande do Sul

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October 14, 2016 Uncategorized

Obstetric violence and humanized birth in Brazil

Originally a guest post on Sheena Byrom’s blog in April 2014, re-posted in response to the wonderful news that Adelir

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June 12, 2016 Uncategorized

One in five: pain into strength – and new beginnings in maternity care

Flitting listlessly through my timeline, I was arrested and perplexed by this wall of interrogation on a red background. Turns

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May 21, 2016 Uncategorized

Mary Cronk: Language – how far have we come?

Mary sent this letter today, asking me to ‘put it on a universal email on the computer’ for her sisters

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