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A unique and engaging 54 page, monthly (11 issues per year) journal containing original articles and tools to support the practice, professional development and studies of anyone who works with women, babies and families.
Essentially MIDIRS offers a contemporary and stimulating resource packed with abstracts and commentaries on the latest research and selected articles from over 500 journals featured on MIDIRS Reference Database.
The opportunity to build your professional portfolio with a special two page tear-out section is included – the perfect tool to serve as a record of reading and evidence of learning and reflection on current maternity issues.
June 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Hands on or off the head during a birth? Evidence and intuition for avoiding severe perineal trauma
Top Ten: Top ten tips for writing assignments.
MIDIRS In Deep: Postnatal clinics: the way forward
Sitting Next to Nellie: Physiological third stage – how long is too long?
Joined-up Knowing: Push! A play about natural childbirth
MIDIRS Writes: A fairy tale…without the happy ending
May 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Safety in birth: risk in perspective?
MIDIRS ReView Saving Mothers’ Lives: reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–08. The Eight Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom.
MIDIRS In Deep: From cultural ignorance came stories with meaning
State of the Evidence: MIDIRS Informed Choice update on: support in labour (part 2)
Joined-up Knowing: Membrane sweeping…a job for the morning or the evening?
MIDIRS Writes: Feasting on findings…
April 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Fat as a fatal issue: response to the ‘epidemic’ of obesity among childbearing women
MIDIRS ReView: Late intrauterine death and stillbirth
MIDIRS In Deep: Midwives exemptions
Sitting Next to Nellie: Vaginal examinations in normal labour
Joined-up Knowing: Perineal healing measurements: midwifery practice and midwifery research
MIDIRS Writes: Popular papers, or, what midwives read: part 2
March 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Midwives as mothers, mothers as midwives: considering the relationship between midwives’ personal childbearing experiences and their midwifery practice
MIDIRS Top Ten Top ten tips for using the new MIDIRS Reference Database
MIDIRS In Deep: Images of water birth
State of the Evidence: MIDIRS Informed Choice update on: support in labour
Joined-up Knowing: ‘Going against the tide’: embracing ‘knots’ and ‘mud’ in research findings
MIDIRS Writes: Popular papers, or, what midwives read: part 1
February 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: The heart of the job: emotion work in midwifery
MIDIRS ReView Instruments for assisted delivery
MIDIRS In Deep: Womb to world
Sitting next to Nellie: Supporting women through a prolonged latent phase of labour
Joined-up Knowing: The development of the Sheffield Home Birth Pools Scheme
MIDIRS Writes: Normality and goalposts
January 2011 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: What would nature do? Understanding natural process
Top Ten: Technologies that have improved the lives of women and midwives
MIDIRS In Deep: Choice, controversy and the code
State of the Evidence: Exercise in pregnancy: a review of current evidence and guidelines
Joined-up Knowing: Jonathan’s birth story – 1966, UK
MIDIRS Writes: The grey matters…
December 2010 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Happy Birthday AIMS: 50 years’ campaigning
MIDIRS ReView: What information do midwives and women need to be able to make decisions about the third stage of labour?
MIDIRS In Deep: The pelvic floor in life: new understandings
Sitting Next to Nellie: Communicating with women around antenatal screening
Joined-up Knowing: ‘When the cake is ready…’
MIDIRS Writes: Rethinking the fundamentals…
November 2010 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Vitamin D supplementation: the confusion and the controversy
NEW section! Top Ten: Absorbable suture materials for primary repair of episiotomy and second degree tears
MIDIRS In Deep: Symphysis fundal height: a measure of the evidence
State of the Evidence: Weight gain in pregnancy: consensus and controversies
Joined-up Knowing: Torn in two: birth decisions after a third degree tear
MIDIRS Writes: Weighing and measuring: the individual and the population
October 2010 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Why do medical journals get so het up about home birth?
MIDIRS ReView: Absorbable suture materials for primary repair of episiotomy and second degree tears
MIDIRS In Deep: A care pathway for the physiological third stage of labour
Sitting Next to Nellie: Midwifery lore & abdominal assessment
Joined-up Knowing: Practising assessing cervical dilation
MIDIRS Writes: Bad science and the limitations of choice
September 2010 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Transfers from midwife led to obstetric led care: some insights from midwives
MIDIRS ReView: Classification of urgency of caesarean section – a continuum of risk
MIDIRS In Deep: Caring and sharing – evidence on ways to improve breastfeeding support
State of the Evidence: Midwifery care and the jaundiced baby: Part 2
Joined-up Knowing: Losing the capacity to care
MIDIRS Writes: Carbon monoxide testing: what choice?
July/August 2010 Issue:
MIDIRS Focus: Reflections on a midwife’s shift from an academic to a clinical practice role
MIDIRS Focus: Reflections on a midwife’s shift from an academic to a clinical practice role
MIDIRS In Deep: Moxibustion to turn the breech baby
State of the Evidence: Midwifery care and the jaundiced baby: part 1
Joined-up Knowing: Into the mouths of babes and sucklings
MIDIRS Writes: Reflecting on risk assessment
June 2010 Issue:
Primal Inspiration: Lessons from the animal kingdom
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