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17/10/2025

17/10/2025

🌸 Your Voice Matters in Maternity & Neonatal Care 🌸

Every experience matters. Your experience matters. 💛

We’re listening and learning from local families so that maternity and neonatal care truly reflects what women, birthing people and families need.

If you’ve recently used maternity or neonatal services (at any stage of your journey), I’d be so grateful if you could share your thoughts.
🖊️ You can complete our short online questionnaire here ➡️ https://forms.gle/W718LcX1AWE8vZGv8

There’s no pressure to answer everything, just share what feels right for you. Every comment helps us make a difference.

If it’s easier, you can also:
💬 WhatsApp me your thoughts- 01642040705
🎤 Send a voice note
💛 Or simply have a chat in any of the ways below. It's whatever feels most comfortable to you.

Your feedback helps shape better care, better communication, and better experiences for families across our community. Thank you for taking the time to share your voice. 💛

🤝 "Share your voices, shape your care"

FB- https://www.facebook.com/share/1BjmxRSeGj/
IG- https://www.instagram.com/mvpnorthtees
TikTok- .neonatal.voice
Email- Jade.wilcock1@nhs.net
Phone/WhatsApp- 01642040705

16/10/2025

👋🏼Hello new and expectant parents- we need your help! ✨

South Tees Community Midwives would love you to join them on 22nd October, 10:30-11:30am at Low Grange to discuss all things antenatal.

It’s a great opportunity for you to chat to midwives and offer feedback about your antenatal care. There’s also the chance to help the midwives develop scripts for some exciting antenatal education videos they’ll be recording soon! These include topics such as pain relief, induction of labour and homebirth. Watch this space 👀

And for us…it’s an excuse to meet your lovely little ones - babies and children are welcome🫶🏼

There’ll be refreshments and every attendee will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win a £30 gift voucher.

If you’d like to attend or have any questions, please just send us a DM on here or Instagram .teesmnvp 😊

Thank you - we really appreciate your input. You’ll be helping to shape antenatal care and making a difference for others.

MNVP Team 💜

15/10/2025

Remembering all the babies we loved and lost or never got to hold.

13/10/2025

Amen 🙏

Our bodies are amazing 💕

06/10/2025

✨Final spaces available✨

Hi all👋🏼

We have a couple of spaces left for our ‘15 Steps’ for Neonatal this Wednesday 8th October 11:30-1:30pm (approx).

It’s an opportunity to walk through the NICU at James Cook with us in a small group and tell us what you think about our facilities and services.

You don’t need to have experienced neonatal care first-hand, but please be aware of the nature of the Neonatal Ward 💚 Unfortunately, due to this, babies will not be able to attend with you this time.

We really appreciate you taking part, so as a thank you you’ll receive a £20 gift card and light refreshments.

To register your interest or to ask any questions, please DM us or email southtees@matvoices.uk

Thank you! We couldn’t do what we do without you 💜

06/10/2025

September at the Friarage Maternity Centre 🫶🏼

28/09/2025

27/09/2025

Are you pregnant and in the UK?

Lowri is another of our PhD students looking at how the cost of living crisis is affecting food choices, diet and wellbeing during pregnancy.

If you're currently pregnant we'd be very grateful if you could complete her survey exploring your views of how the cost of food (and everything else) might be impacting your diet, food choices and wellbeing.

We're interested in knowing how the cost of living crisis might be affecting women's diet but also how families might make decisions around that, especially when there are other children.

We'd really value responses from families across all different incomes so we are able to make comparisons - whether you feel the cost of food is affecting you or not.

We hope that the findings will help build the case for more support for families during pregnancy.

Survey link here - thank you https://swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b1QHZmCnmei2FD0

17/09/2025

The MMN provides care to women with complex medical conditions that predate or arise during pregnancy.

Over the next few months, the MMN team will be working on developing the MMN strategy. It is really important to them, that this strategy is co-produced with service users with lived experience of maternal medicine.

If you have received care from the MMN during your pregnancy or if you have a medical condition and are planning a pregnancy, they would love to hear from you. If you would like to be involved, please contact them at Debbie.scott14@nhs.net

02/07/2025

Focus Group: Birthing Outside of Guidance

We are working on what good care looks like for people choosing to birth outside of guidance. We are working with the trust to co-produce a guideline that supports women and birthing people who choose to birth outside of guidance.

This focus group will include Trust staff, and we invite you to share your experiences with us if you feel comfortable. We will also present examples of good practices from other trusts and share a process map for service users that the trust has started. We would love to hear your thoughts on each step and what would make each individual step feel better.

Details:
Date: Thursday, 10th July
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: New Earswick Folk Hall, York

Children are welcome!

To reserve your spot, please email yorkdistrictmvp@gmail.com or send us a message.

28/06/2025