Austerity, inequality and CoVid-19: what are the effects on health and wellbeing?

Labour is what a woman says it is, she owns it.

an encouraging example and impetus for other vital grass roots actions by committed citizens elsewhere.

Nadine Edwards discusses some of the problems encountered when we try to research elements of birth.

The Birth Practice and Politics Forum is delighted to announce the publication of Birthing your baby: the second stage of labour by Nadine P

The Americanisation of the NHS is already in full swing.

This election may well turn out to be a pivotal moment for the NHS after which privatisation will either become accepted and accelerated or

In the run-up to the general election the future of the NHS is in all of our minds and is one of the most crucial issues

The Maternity Action report in 2018 What Price Safe Motherhood? documents the damaging effects on pregnant migrant women of charging for NHS maternity care....

There is a hugely important discussion happening about induction of labour at the moment. It's happening on many levels, and much of the conversation is taki...

It saddens me how often writing around birth fails to look at the economic and political context in which we work. Yet that context so often determines what w...

One of the concerns that those of us blogging on this website share is the way in which commodification, commercialisation and the push to sell products, pha...

There is a real problem throughout health and social services which is particularly evident in maternity services and that is the issue of care. Care happens...

This landmark Irish legislation, observing in full the rights of women and their families under the ECHR, has changed the public discourse a

I’ve had my eyes opened recently to the reality lived by pregnant, asylum-seeking women in Britain. A year ago I volunteered for a Cardiff-based organisation...

Mavis Kirkham reflects on the patterns seen so often around the closure of birth centres, following the publication of an article on this to

'Informed consent for giving brith in Hospital': this is the beginning of a document that one of our members, Beverley Beech, wrote

I’ve spent 36 years as a birth activist and this book brings me joy. That’s not because I have a particular need to know about Group B Strep (although this b...

What a brilliant, insightful and compelling read. Although much of what I read confirmed what I already suspected, it still shocked and troubled me. Mostly E...

I was excited when I heard that the new NMC midwifery proficiencies were to be based on principles from the Lancet series, a series of international studies ...