{"title":"Skin Care in Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period","authors":"Kerry Pollard","doi":"10.55975/inkw9867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/inkw9867","url":null,"abstract":"A great deal of advice around maintaining health is focused on nutrition and exercise – in particular what to do and what not to do. Little focus is on the importance of skin care. Just like the heart and lungs, the skin is an organ of the body. In fact it is the largest of all of the organs. It has many functions, many of which support us to maintain health and wellbeing through a complex eco system of the microbiome where it provides protections against pathogens, supports vitamin synthesis, metabolism and immune development.1 In pregnancy, the body’s organs undergo a myriad of physiological changes affecting each system differently.2 There are three categories of skin conditions in pregnancy, benign hormone-related changes such as hyperpigmentation and striae gravidarum, pre-existing skin conditions, such as acne and psoriasis, and pregnancy-specific disorders such as atopic eruption of pregnancy.3 Each will require different treatment or care to minimise discomfort or irritation.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"204 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You are Now a Midwife: What Next?","authors":"Jacqui Williams","doi":"10.55975/uckn8942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/uckn8942","url":null,"abstract":"Congratulations if you have recently completed your midwifery programme. With assignments and assessments behind you are now ready to enjoy being a midwife. However, the end of your midwifery programme is not the end of your learning. Some of you will want to undertake further academic study and have an ambition of advancing your midwifery knowledge to move onto more specialised roles. You will all complete activities put on by your place of work, attend study days and the occasional conference.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"13 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140764203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Midwifery Insights Advancing Midwifery Knowledge Through Storytelling: A Birth Story","authors":"P. Caprioli, Emilie Janssen","doi":"10.55975/icnv9373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/icnv9373","url":null,"abstract":"Midwifery as a profession and a vocation has historically been passed from generation to generation through narratives, practice and storytelling: wise women passing their skills down to the next generation, again and again.1 In this article, midwife Pia invites student midwives to take a moment for themselves while she tells the story of her 40th birth as a student midwife. Through this story, she explains how continuity of carer (CoC) and an experience of spontaneous labour was crucial for developing the direction of her career. *Names and details of the story shared with parents’ permission.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140769608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing Fear: A First-Year Student Midwife’s Perspective","authors":"Rachel Fucella","doi":"10.55975/xrzk1004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/xrzk1004","url":null,"abstract":"Fear. It is one of the most gripping and visceral of human emotions. But what place, if any, does fear have within maternity care? As a first-year student midwife, fear appears to be an overwhelming theme, splashed across newspaper headlines and hotly debated in lectures halls. This article aims to critically discuss sources of this fear, amongst users of maternity services and within the midwifery profession itself – and look to some of the solutions to overcome it. Professional midwifery stands at a crossroads, with global goals driving improvements in practice, while the complex challenge of fear threatens to cripple progress if not responded to with hope.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breastfeeding Efficacy and Longevity in Scotland – Time to Think Outside the Box?","authors":"Louisa Pirie","doi":"10.55975/ikfx4062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/ikfx4062","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization (WHO) and Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) recommend that infants are exclusively breastfed until six months of age. While there is a high initiation rate for breastfeeding at hospital discharge, the drop-off rate continues to increase. There have been many studies conducted into reasons behind the decreased longevity and exclusivity of breastfeeding and there is evidence from the literature that there needs to be more intervention antenatally to have a positive influence on infant feeding. Innovative thinking is required in how this can be facilitated and one intervention that requires further research is antenatal hand expressing. Antenatal hand expression of colostrum has been researched in pregnant diabetic women but there is a lack of evidence for non-diabetic pregnant women and the potential role it may have in influencing longevity and exclusivity of breastfeeding.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sleep is the Best Medicine: A Narrative Review","authors":"Jacana Bresson, Dr Billie Lever Taylor","doi":"10.55975/uimg4831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/uimg4831","url":null,"abstract":"Midwives and students endeavour to support women and birthing people through the experience of pregnancy and birth, and the transition to life with a newborn baby. When clients are in pain, we offer pain relief. We offer support if breastfeeding challenges arise. We give diet advice to optimise maternal health and wellbeing. When it comes to sleep, another bodily function with major health implications, what support, if any, do midwives provide in the inpatient environment? And does this have any impact on maternal health outcomes? This article provides a narrative review of the literature on midwifery support for healthier sleep in pregnancy.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positive Planning With The Happy Student Company","authors":"Sophie Lee","doi":"10.55975/moiw8342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/moiw8342","url":null,"abstract":"Embarking on the journey of becoming a student midwife is a profound endeavour, one that demands not only knowledge and technical skills but also a significant dose of courage. But as student midwives, can we plan to be courageous? Yes, I believe we can, and this comes from examining and building upon our own personal resilience.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why the Afterbirth Should Not be an Afterthought: Promoting Respect for Cultural Placental Practices","authors":"Alicia Burnett","doi":"10.55975/zstr7946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/zstr7946","url":null,"abstract":"Textbooks often restrict discussion about the placenta to its function, possible dysfunction, and expectant and active management, with little to no mention of cultural placental practices. Equally, midwives practising in hospital settings, where the placenta is viewed as clinical waste,1 afterbirth rituals than homebirth practitioners. are less likely to facilitate 1,2 This can lead to maternal requests for practices including placental burial, cord burning ceremonies2 and placentophagy being viewed as unconventional or incompatible with clinical guidelines. Yet since the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assert that women and birthing people must be asked about their preferences for the third stage of labour,3 midwives and students should be prepared to discuss and facilitate culturally significant placental rites.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting Autonomous Birthing Beyond Guidelines","authors":"Elli Blackwell","doi":"10.55975/voku9855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/voku9855","url":null,"abstract":"Women and birthing people at low risk of complications are free to choose how, where and when to give birth in NHS services. However, women who do not fit into this category that want to choose beyond what is recommended will receive care ‘outside of guidance’ (OOG). This includes women with identified complexities requesting to birth at home or in midwife-led units. For women with low-risk and uncomplicated pregnancies, birth is deemed to be safe, and midwife- led settings are recommended. However, those experiencing a high-risk pregnancy who wish to give birth in these settings would be ‘outside’ of clinical guidelines. This article discusses the importance of supporting birth choices OOG and how best student midwives can advocate for personalised care.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NMC Series: Care in Labour and Birth","authors":"Dr Jacqui Williams","doi":"10.55975/nxht5302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55975/nxht5302","url":null,"abstract":"In January 2020 the UK left the EU, and the NMC took the opportunity to review our standards which had for many years been underpinned by the EU Directive. Following extensive engagement and a public consultation we found that our standards exceed the Directive, but there was a lack of evidence to change the requirement to achieve certain skills – for example, the number of births a student needs to facilitate.","PeriodicalId":163461,"journal":{"name":"The Student Midwife","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}