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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

Shame on you @NICEComms . Agreeing that healthcare professionals can offer pseudoscientific pain relief to women in labour is nothing short of a scandal. Shame on you. New NICE intrapartum guidelines 1/

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8 months

More nonsense in NHS maternity care. Look closely. The inscription on the comb reads: "It's not pain, it's power" @sashnhs Does your advice about pain in other services tell patients that pain isn't material but is in fact power?

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The Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association @OAAinfo explained to you why it makes no sense. You ignored them. What is the mechanism @NICEComms ? How does it work? Can you tell us? 2/

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8 months

And also shame on @MidwivesRCM for supporting this and @RCObsGyn for just standing by. 3/

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

The NHS, a special world where people who raise legitimate patient safety issues get bullied out of their job but people who cover up harm they have caused continue working undisturbed.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

4 months

Make no mistake. 'Normal birth' is more than a reference term to describe "an uncomplicated, straightforward physiological labour and birth". It is an anti-medical ideology which took over UK maternity care from 1993. 🧵 1/

Royal College of Midwives 💙

@MidwivesRCM

4 months

The RCM Re:Birth project aims to bring the maternity community - midwives, obstetricians, service users, support workers, students, researchers and others – together to develop a new, shared positive narrative around birth. More here:

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5 months

🚨 North Middlesex University maternity. Another truly awful CQC report. Stillbirth rate 2020 - 3.71/1000 Feb 2023 - 6.82/1000 But no plan to change these outcomes, no learning from incidents and no transparency with affected families. 1/

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10 months

@babylossmummy @Sajhawkins1 And the tone used to offer induction of labour. Is it even an offer? It sounds like a threat. Horrific.

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11 months

This needs to be stopped in its tracks. Aromatherapy & acupressure for postdates pregnancy is not an evidence-based intervention. It needs eradicating from NHS maternity care. @AmandaPritchard @mariacaulfield @katebrintworth @PennyEmNHS @JohnKPHT

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8 months

As you know, I particularly look at pseudoscience in UK maternity care. So I had a look at Leicester maternity. 1/

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@catherineroyuk

10 months

. @croydonhealth looking for a midwife "with a passion for normal birth and continuity of care". Desirable criteria: Aromatherapy trained Hypnotherapy trained

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

22 days

I would like to pay tribute to all the bereaved parents who lead quiet battles. Some scared to jeopardise the legal processes they're going through, some who choose to keep their stories private. From their messages, it's the love for their children which shines through.

mo jo

@_outraged

22 days

@EmilyJBarley Another deleted post that I managed to screenshot. I can't believe maternity professionals are out here posting this stuff?! The 'pursuing a hateful agenda' line, talking about families that have lost their babies made me feel sick.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

. @UniofNottingham Midwifery Studies, Maternal and Newborn Health MSc This needs to stop. Modules like this one need to stop. @TeamCMidO

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

@EmilyWatts54 @sashnhs Are you comfortable with healthcare professionals recommended woo? I'm not. There are professional standards which have been ignored here.

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@catherineroyuk

6 months

This is the myth that is sold to many. That declining epidural, forceps or induction is good for you, empowering. True empowerment is being given all the facts and being listened to once you've made a choice.

Emily Barley

@EmilyJBarley

6 months

The article says, as if it is fact: "Minimising intervention decreases birth trauma for both mother and infant, and aids recovery time." When in reality minimising intervention killed Beatrice and destroyed my life, and has done the same to hundreds of others.

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

"NHS spends £1m a week on failed legal battles with the bereaved" A law for duty of candour would force NHS trusts to be transparent about their failings and avoid protracted battles in my view.

The Times & The Sunday Times

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

"Hospitals are still covering up serious mistakes in patient care and fobbing off families that raise concerns, the head of the watchdog that investigates complaints against the NHS has warned." #dutyofcandour #EastKent

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

I would suggest to those leading maternity in Leicester to have a long hard look at themselves and start realising that the oppressed are the parents of the 51 babies whose deaths they reviewed and ditch geranium for grief and follow NICE guidelines instead. 12/

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Mother blaming couldn't be any clearer. #hypnobirthing

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

"deep breathing, massage & hypnosis – are the next most common form of pain relief after gas and air, followed by Tens machines" None of which have sufficient evidence of efficacy.

‘I kept begging for pain relief’: the women forced to give birth without gas and air

Some hospitals are suspending supplies of gas and air, after it was found to pose health risks to midwives. What can be done to ensure pregnant women still get the help they need?

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

I don't believe we need to wait for @DOckendenLtd and her team's review conclusions to stop encouraging aromatherapy at NUH. This is sexist and dangerous pseudoscience mascarading as healthcare and empowerment. It can and must go now.

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@catherineroyuk

2 months

Great Western hospital maternity "People had experienced 3rd & 4th degree perineal tears and bleeding during birth, but these had been downgraded in severity, which meant they were not investigated as thoroughly as they should've been to keep people safe."

BBC Health News

@bbchealth

2 months

Great Western Hospital's maternity service downgraded

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

Ockenden is very firm: it is not the job of traumatised families to lead investigations. She also talks about the mothers who died and says we need to honour their memory and learn and improve. #MatSafety2022

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

If you're a maternity HCP, please learn from my story. When there is no colostrum (self-evident + severe PPH in background) & the mother is telling you (that was me) there is no colostrum, offer formula. Eventually a volunteer rescued us but it was very dangerous & unnecessary.

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@catherineroyuk

4 months

'Normal birth' isn't simply a language issue. It is a fundamental rejection of medical thinking and progress. I'm sure @MidwivesRCM are aware of this. 9/

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@catherineroyuk

3 months

UK network of professors of midwifery, maternity and newborn health responds to @bmj_latest on the new NICE guidelines on sterile water injections by saying critiques border on hysteria. I feel a sense of desperation from this small but powerful corner of midwifery.

Prof Jenny Gamble

@ProfJennyGamble

3 months

@susan_bewley @pash22 @drruthannharpur @chungopailot @NICEComms @BlottMaggie @jimgthornton @catherineroyuk @OAAinfo This rapid response published in the BMJ today by the UK Profs group of which I am a member. Here is the link. Sterile water has been used for over a decade. Data on women's experience of use is also available.

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Delaying or replacing proper medical attention with dangerous quack & viewing women's emotions as the root of childbirth complications is utterly unacceptable. 1/ @mariacaulfield @aidanfowler1000 @TeamCMidO @SteveBarclay @katlay

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

OMG. This is what happens when MPs are lobbied with a bad idea by ppl with a strong ideological stance. Don't MPs check who talks to them? Banning ECT is a bad idea. @LaylaMoran @WalkerWorcester @MarshadeCordova @NadiaWhittomeMP @carla_denyer @DrLadeSmith

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

🚨 The real end to normal birth policy? "Baby deaths force end to NHS targets for natural births. Maternity units have been told to drop the focus on caesareans" The pseudoscience of normal birth should have been clear to all from the start. #patientsafety

Baby deaths force end to NHS targets for natural births

The NHS has abandoned targets that encouraged hospitals to pursue “normal births”, over fears for the safety of mothers and babies.Maternity units were told in

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@catherineroyuk

7 months

Job ad "You will be experienced at actively promoting normal birth" At #EastKent , where normal birth was favoured and where at least 45 babies may have lived with different care, @SteveBarclay @mariacaulfield 1/

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

10 months

"The focus on staffing levels is being used by some to distract from other issues. In our case it was the quietest night with only one other mother in labour. Where were the staff that could have helped? Completing their ‘online learning’, apparently."

Women afraid to give birth after NHS maternity errors, say couple who lost baby

A couple whose baby died as a result of maternity care errors have said that repeated NHS failures make pregnant women scared of giving birth.Allison and Ruth Cooper-Hall’s son Giles was delivered...

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

7 months

. @katie_gibbons1 Why did you go to the NCT for medical info? Don't NHS + Royal Colleges have leaflets/webpages on vit K for newborns? Please stop using unqualified people for medical info. The seriousness of matters at hand should have been warning enough.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

6 years

Nick Cohen's comment 8 hours ago...

Nick Cohen

@NickCohen4

6 years

If you think that he puts career before country,* then Johnson has to resign. He can't allow Davis to outflank him on the Brexit right, and be left in the middle, neither a leaver nor a remainer, mistrusted by all. *And I do.

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4 months

A shout out to the midwives who speak up about patient safety. I'm often told that raising concerns about hypnobirthing, aromatherapy or transfers is an attack on midwifery. It has never been the case. Many midwives practise evidence-based midwifery. We see you.

Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

4 months

Gloucestershire hospitals. @BBCPanorama tonight at 20.00. "Concerns about two staff members, both midwives, had been raised by colleagues at the Cheltenham Birth Centre after another baby died 11 months earlier."

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@catherineroyuk

3 years

Milton Keynes Hospital has suspended the use of Kielland's forceps. A Senior coroner "also wrote about his concerns to the @RCObsGyn " I do hope this prompts a review of the use of this particular type of forceps @morris_ep

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

3 months

The comb technique now shared on a major midwifery forum, "to promote pain relief and relaxation". If women want to use a comb, that's fine. But let's not pretend it does anything other than delay adequate pain relief. Video 15m38

12.5 Reflexology and Acupressure for Pregnancy and Birth #midwifery...

This week we are exploring some alternatives in managing pain in labour. We have two leading practitioners presenting two strategies:1.The use of combs durin...

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

More nonsense in NHS maternity care. Look closely. The inscription on the comb reads: "It's not pain, it's power" @sashnhs Does your advice about pain in other services tell patients that pain isn't material but is in fact power?

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@catherineroyuk

5 months

Mumsnet is backing our call for a public inquiry into maternity services in England. Thank you @MumsnetTowers You can join the campaign here 👇 And follow @Safe_Maternity #parenting #maternity #pregnancy #childbirth

Mumsnet

@MumsnetTowers

5 months

📢 Today, we're announcing that Mumsnet - the UK's largest community of parents - is backing @Safe_Maternity 's call for a public inquiry into #maternity services - clink the link below to read CEO and founder @Justine_Roberts ' article explaining why. 👉

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

As far as I know, aside from a shortlived relaxing effect with a massage, there's no evidence that aromatherapy is useful to treat any condition, including labour pain.

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@catherineroyuk

7 months

"A mum of a newborn boy who died after she was refused a C-section blasted the NHS for "making a joke of our lives" after key witnesses missed an inquest delayed by four years."

Mum's fury as witnesses miss inquest of baby who died after C-section refused

Parents of newborn baby Patryk Bielaszka, who died after a C-section was refused at King's College Hospital, in London, slammed the NHS as a joke, with key witnesses missing the delayed inquest

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

1 year

"Baby milk should be supplied in plain packaging because marketing can exploit parents, WHO warns" And what product is sold in plain packaging? Ah, yes, tobacco. Because everyone knows formula milk is toxic like tobacco. #EnoughIsEnough @babyfriendly

Baby milk marketing can exploit parents, WHO warns

Formula milk should be sold in plain packaging to stop parents being exploited by marketing, the World Health Organisation has said.

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

Ongoing pseudoscience in NHS maternity care. This time, training for acupressure for postdates pregnancy "to offer alternative options for medical induction". @AmandaPritchard FYI @SamRobertsNHS @GregClarkMP

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Olivia needed forceps to give birth. She's part of a third of first time mothers who need instruments to give birth. Hypnobirthing, which Olivia did, doesn't prepare you for that. Nor does standard maternity care. What to do? @OliviaDBuck

Grazia UK

@GraziaUK

2 years

Olivia Bowen: ‘There’s This Idea That Women Are Built To Give Birth And It Made Me Feel Like A Failure That I Couldn’t Do It Naturally’

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

This tweet by Sarah Andrews prompted me to look more closely at aromatherapy at @NHSNotts . 🧵 Sarah's daughter Wynter died at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre after the Trust failed to provide safe care and treatment.

BabylossMummy

@babylossmummy

2 years

@catherineroyuk @JoePinkstone Oh yes I remember! good old aromatherapy the answer to everything! Your in pain? Here aromatherapy! Obstetric emergency? Don’t worry we have aromatherapy! You can’t provide Safe care? Not a problem don’t worry about it just crack out the aromatherapy! 😒

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

@IsabelHardman @sashnhs Very true. 1950s dogma that childbirth isn't painful still having consequences today.

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@catherineroyuk

3 months

🧵 . @gloshospitals maternity is looking more and more like a stronghold of natural, also called normal, childbirth. Natural childbirth is an anti-medical movement which promotes non-intervention in pregnancy & childbirth, particularly from doctors. 1/

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@catherineroyuk

2 months

Baby Orlando's ongoing inquest. "Asked if she had ever heard of hyponatraemia, the midwife said: 'No, I'd never heard of hyponatraemia."

Midwives had never heard of condition causing death, inquest hears

Mother Robyn Davis from Steyning, West Sussex, said she took on the fluid but was unable to pee after going into labour during a low risk planned home birth on September 10, 2021.

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@catherineroyuk

4 months

We cannot accurately predict which labour & birth will be uncomplicated and straightforward. We can only know after the event. This was true in the 1990s and remains true today. Yet. 2/

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@catherineroyuk

4 years

Weigh the baby. That's the only way of knowing for sure that the baby is getting enough food. #saferbirths

World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific

@WHOWPRO

4 years

Is my baby getting enough breast milk? Your baby will let you know when they have had enough by closing their mouth and taking no more breast milk. #WorldBreastfeedingWeek #WBW2020

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9 months

"Martha’s avoidable death was unusual in that the prime causes weren’t overwork or a lack of resources, but complacency, overconfidence and the culture on the ward." Complacency, overconfidence, culture. Complacency, overconfidence, culture. RIP Martha

Can I forgive myself for my daughter’s death?

Two years after his 13-year-old child died needlessly in hospital, a father reflects on life without her

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

10 months

"Police investigation looms over what could become the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history as a Nottingham inquiry examines 1,700 baby death cases"

This could become the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history

Nottinghamshire Chief Constable Kate Meynell attended a public meeting yesterday where it was said she had pledged to review cases - paving the way for a potential criminal investigation.

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@catherineroyuk

3 months

This is why normal birth is at the heart of inter professional conflicts. No matter the strength of evidence showing that normal birth is pseudoscience, proponents will never let go of their dogma. Belief guides them, not reason.

Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

3 months

UK network of professors of midwifery, maternity and newborn health responds to @bmj_latest on the new NICE guidelines on sterile water injections by saying critiques border on hysteria. I feel a sense of desperation from this small but powerful corner of midwifery.

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Job advert - Perinatal mental health midwife In main duties: "Help run alternative therapy classes" Desirable skills & abilities: "Homeopathy/Acupuncture/Aromatherapy/Reflexology" This needs to stop. @TeamCMidO @aidanfowler1000

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Several UK maternity organisations have links with hypnobirthing, claiming that it is "evidence-based and scientific". So is it? 🧵

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

We truly enter the magical domain when midwives are urged to use positive language so as to "help with the effectiveness of the oils and the experience". 8/

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@catherineroyuk

3 months

Absolutely awful. Vital observations were not performed as the patient was being "difficult refusing to have her obs. undertaken due to the amount of pain she was experiencing". Can't black pregnant women die quietly? Awful. @mariacaulfield @CNOEngland

Pregnant woman died after 'cultural bias' caused delayed care | ITV News

The black African woman was taken to Liverpool Woman's hospital and died after a delay in her care. | ITV News Granada

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@catherineroyuk

5 months

😱 "Michael Dixon, a champion of faith healing and herbalism with a questionable CV, has been quietly installed as head of the royal medical household."

The Times & The Sunday Times

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

Grantly Dick-Read, the famous obstetrician who invented natural childbirth. Except he never was an obstetrician and @RCObsGyn refused him membership. Ina May Gaskin, the famous midwife. Except she never was a midwife. She graduated in English literature.

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

New developments include the possibility of using aromatherapy with all pregnant & postnatal women, not simply those classed as low risk, in the absence of contraindications. This shows an expansion of acceptance of aromatherapy, a non-evidenced intervention, in Leicester. 3/

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@catherineroyuk

8 months

"The Telegraph has found trusts across the country boasting about the way they promote natural birth, while internal hospital policy documents reveal a reluctance to perform caesarean sections." @SteveBarclay Ty for following this up.

NHS Trusts still push women to have natural births despite maternity scandals

Telegraph investigation finds number of hospitals show reluctance to perform caesarean sections

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@catherineroyuk

2 years

👀 In their 'Breech baby' patient leaflet, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust @SheffieldHosp say that pregnant women could see an acupuncturist for moxibustion or "a chiropractor who practises Webster's technique" ⚠️ Dangerous pseudoscience

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@catherineroyuk

6 months

Normal birth is propaganda. And it will try to silence those who denounce it. Take care Martyn.

Martyn Pitman

@MartynPitman

6 months

Statement from Martyn Pitman

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3 years

Natural childbirth ideology rides on pseudoscience. Selecting a particular group and promoting it as proof that childbirth without interventions is safe is not science. It's selection bias.

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@catherineroyuk

4 months

On Monday 29 January, @BBCPanorama is covering maternity in Gloucestershire. @BBCMBuchanan talked to whistleblowers "about the deaths of mothers and babies, the dangers of understaffing and a culture that they say has failed to learn from mistakes." 1/

BBC One - Panorama, Midwives under Pressure

Panorama investigates the maternity care crisis that is putting women and babies at risk.

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@catherineroyuk

5 years

@RajaGangopadhy3 @1MaryOBrien @tori_joel @jawad_hala @MarkWilliamsFMH @DrAndyMayers @sammajumdar @kristinacowan @WhoseShoes Can we talk about #ptsd AND post traumatic stress symptoms antenatally? Awareness is growing but typically, women (and their partners) are told about #PND and #postpartumpsychosis but not about #birthtrauma symptoms. #anxiety #hypervigilance and #OCD need a mention too

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@catherineroyuk

7 months

I join @Safe_Maternity in calling for a statutory inquiry into maternity services in England. We need to understand why avoidable mum & baby deaths & injuries are being allowed to happen on a large scale. @SteveBarclay @PutneyFleur #MaternityInquiry

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@catherineroyuk

1 year

The infantilization of pregnant women & people via hypnobirthing. #pseudoscience #misinformation

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@catherineroyuk

11 months

"King's Birthday Honours for Shropshire maternity campaigners" @brookiewookie15 @hergehound5 🙏

Honours for Shropshire maternity campaigners - BBC News

Rhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton plus Colin and Kayleigh Griffiths will be appointed MBEs.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@catherineroyuk

10 months

"'Bossy' midwife who told a new mother that 'terrorists could poison formula milk' in bid to persuade her to breastfeed instead is struck off"

'Bossy' midwife warned new mother 'terrorists could poison formula'

Anna Semenenko, 59, from Russia, made the shocking remark when she was trying to persuade the new mother to breastfeed her baby instead.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

1 year

A cold, defensive and misguided rapid response in the BMJ about the #EastKent maternity inquiry report. How many maternity staff have similar views?

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

7 months

Daniel & Fiona raising awareness of medical negligence in maternity care. Same themes 41w pregnant Meconium "Stay at home" Pathological CTG Pbs with escalation Erroneous notes Lack of honesty after death

Leeds couple's baby dies 27 minutes after birth following 'midwife mistake'

'At the moment we were told Aliona had died, our world imploded'

www.leeds-live.co.uk

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@catherineroyuk

10 months

"She was told that “women labour the best at home"." We all know where this comment comes from. The 'normal birth' textbook. And it needs to stop. @NHSGrampian @caroline_hiscox "NHS Grampian apologises to Elgin mum kicked out of maternity hospital"

NHS Grampian apologises to Elgin woman told to labour in Aberdeen hotel car park

NHS Grampian has apologised to a mum over her “inhumane” treatment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary which left her going into labour in a hotel car…

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@catherineroyuk

4 months

Since then, other maternity units, Shrewsbury & Telford and East Kent, have been investigated and 'normal birth' was implicated in more deaths of mothers & babies. Now we await the conclusions of the inquiry in Nottingham. 8/

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

If some essential oils have antimicrobial properties, the effects of conventional antiseptics and antibiotics are much more potent.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision on Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board. TY for all you've done & carry on doing @NadineMontgmery ! Disturbing to think that @NHSEngland dropped caesarean targets only 2 weeks ago. @AmandaPritchard

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2 years

Ockenden: Had all the recommendations of Morecambe Bay been implemented, we may not have had what arose at Shrewsbury & Telford #MatSafety2022

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"People who are supposed to care, but instead rolled their eyes, sneered and dismissed me when I raised the alarm and asked for their help. People who ignored their training, hospital policies and the very basics of even half decent care."

'Destroyed' Yorkshire councillor quits role after tragic death of baby girl

Emily Barley has resigned from her role as the Rotherham Conservative leader

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

1 year

"Maternity payouts cost NHS twice the price of care itself" @SteveBarclay @Jeremy_Hunt When will we have investment to have enough staff, with the right training, enough beds & operating theatres and learning & accountability? When?

Maternity payouts cost NHS twice the price of care itself

The cost of compensating mothers and their families for harm caused by NHS maternity services is more than double what the health service spends on such care each year, analysis shows.The total cost...

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

"A book used on midwifery courses tells midwives that “intuition” rather than monitors can assess the wellbeing of mothers and babies during labour." I'm glad this is getting attention. @drruthannharpur

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

10 months

"Her partner Liam Ingram, 27, begged medics three times to induce her but the couple were not referred to an obstetrician and were instead sent home with a leaflet giving advice on early labour." 39w with stomach pains & not feeling baby move. Enough!

Mother of stillborn baby wins NHS payout after doctors sent her home

Emily Hart (left), 26, was rushed to the Royal Berkshire Hospital when she was 39 weeks pregnant after she complained of stomach pains and not feeling her baby move.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

"Empowering" pregnant women and people with dangerous advice.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

7 months

2013 study. Latent phase of labour & ☎️ assessment seen from staff's side. I can confirm that women are very well aware that they're being fobbed off/considered a nuisance/dismissed as first-timers. I wonder if the 2 sites are Nottingham?

Midwives' beliefs and concerns about telephone conversations with women in early labour

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

www.academia.edu

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

They have edited their post. @sashnhs The Code is clear. It is healthcare professionals' job to separate evidence-based from non evidence-based treatments. Advertising pseudoscience sits outside the Code. And equating pain to power is deeply disturbing.

Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

More nonsense in NHS maternity care. Look closely. The inscription on the comb reads: "It's not pain, it's power" @sashnhs Does your advice about pain in other services tell patients that pain isn't material but is in fact power?

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4 months

Those in charge of maternity in the 1990s convinced themselves that the vast majority of pregnant women could give birth without medical interventions or the best available analgesia (epidurals). 3/

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

4 years

My open letter to @GillWaltonRCM regarding 2 courses accredited by the RCM. As you can see, many people support my request.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

4 years

The result of yeeeeears of 'natural is better' as well as 'normal birth' policy by health authorities. Shame on you naturalists, normalists & policy makers. This narrative is still v much present & I don't know how we're going to get out it.

C-section guilt: ‘I felt like I’d failed’

Three women who had Caesarean deliveries describe their feelings of having 'failed' at childbirth.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

The evidence for the use of aromatherapy for therapeutic purposes is scant. At best, it has a short-lived relaxing effect with a massage. 4/

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

1 year

Alternative treatments I found in NHS maternity. Sterile water injections/water papules for pain 💉 Self-hypnosis/hypnobirthing for pain 😵‍💫 Acupressure/reflexology with aromatherapy for post-dates pregnancy 🦶 Moxibustion for breech 🌿🔥 Rewind for birth trauma ⏪️

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

1 year

NHS trusts accused of offering pseudoscience treatments in maternity such as water injections for pain relief and burning herbs to treat breech births:

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

3 years

Now that normal birth policy in the UK has been discontinued, I'd like to see an overhaul of antenatal education & info. Clear boundaries between interest groups and the NHS, between medical information and pseudoscience and an acceptance that it is the patient who decides.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

3 years

A patient-centred evidence submission from @BMFMSNews to the HSC parliamentary inquiry into mat services in England. "The goal should be to give mothers a balanced view of the risks and benefits of aiming for vaginal delivery, and also, of planned CS."

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

22 days

The word that there is no benefit to pregnancy beyond 39 weeks is getting out?

💕Sheena Byrom she/her 💕

@sheena_byrom

23 days

In your opinion, what are the reasons for the rapidly increasing number of women having induction of labour? DM me if you prefer…

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

4 months

As you cannot always predict which labour will require a caesarean section, pursuing the ideology of 'normal birth' instead of following a medical ideology came at a cost. This was uncovered during the Morecambe Bay investigation. 7/

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1 year

“There’s been this focus on having the lowest caesarean rate, when they should have been looking at why some hospitals have higher rates of stillbirth and why others have women coming out with birth injuries,” Well said @BirthTrauma

‘I was left scared, alone, exhausted’: inside London’s maternity crisis

A new study has found that the number of women who report positive labour and birth has fallen dramatically. Claire Cohen reports on the struggling wards

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

7 months

🚨🚨🚨 "landmark court order requiring HSIB (now known as HSSIB) disclose transcripts of interviews with midwives involved in the care" The baby "collapsed while on his mother's breast an hour after he had been born in a healthy condition." @FieldfisherPI

Landmark court order requires HSIB to disclose confidential interviews to aid post-natal injury...

In an ongoing post-natal injury case, Paul McNeil and Henry Kirwan won a landmark court order requiring HSIB (now known as HSSIB) disclose transcripts of interviews with midwives involved in the care.

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

3 months

What years of demonising hospitals, promoting home births & birth centres for their "homely" environments and breeding mistrust with healthcare professionals leads to. @MidwivesRCM @RCObsGyn have a lot to do with this @ProfAsmaKhalil @mariacaulfield

Doctors issue warning after spike in ‘freebirthing’

Midwives are concerned about women giving birth at home without assistance

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

1 month

Similar questions must be asked about normal birth & maternity services: How did the medical profession look the other way as this travesty unfolded? How were campaigners from outside the NHS & medicine allowed to have so much influence? @VictoriaAtkins @wesstreeting

The Observer

@ObserverUK

1 month

The Cass review reveals how children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession | Observer editorial

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

2 years

. @ShaunLintern is saying that he's quite angry that we're still here. The same themes come up in the stories he writes. Lost to do on culture. Staff find it very difficult to raise concerns. And when they do they're not listened to. #MatSafety2022

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Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

8 months

But these guidelines cite its use in midwifery for a host of conditions: stress, anxiety, nausea, oedema, constipation, heartburn, indigestion, analgesia, leg cramps, insomnia, induction of labour, acceleration of labour, retained placenta, sinus congestion, 5/

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Catherine Roy

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4 months

Inquest. "Her family say that [Jessica] was incorrectly told the condition should resolve itself by the end of the first trimester and was also warned the medication could harm her unborn child." What terrible losses. My thoughts are with their family.

Mum-to-be took own life after being 'reduced to shell' by extreme hyperemesis

Jess Cronshaw, a primary school teacher, was taken to the hospital where her daughter was delivered via emergency Caesarean "in an attempt to save her baby's life"

www.lancs.live

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