The Yorkshire Midwifery Practice

21/02/2025

Good to be aware…..

19/10/2024

Fabulous maternity unit in Northallerton.

🥳🎉🎊 CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF FMC 🎊🎉🥳

The Friarage Maternity Centre turned 10 this month!
FMC is a stand alone, midwifery birth centre supporting families throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
It is a great privilege to support parents as they experience pregnancy, and welcome a new baby in to their family.
We look forward to continuing the great success the centre has had, for many years to come, and we want to thank the local community and all the staff for their support over the last ten years❤️

18/10/2024

Well this is exciting!! ☺️

03/06/2024

This is so true!
Are you aware of this and that it’s always your choice as a birthing woman?

Note: This statement is from a chapter on PHYSIOLOGICAL birth.

14/05/2024

Did you see the news yesterday??

MPs heard "harrowing stories" from women, including some who said they were left in blood-soaked sheets.

11/04/2024

What do you call a bimonthly meeting of acupuncturists? Quick answer is ‘a bloody brilliant way of spending a morning’! These 3 beautiful, strong, sassy women form one of my 3 supervision groups that I facilitate. We meet to have a space in which we can reflect upon our work, explore and enquire about how our working life is impacting on our personal lives and take some time out to look after ourselves. Good coffee courtesy of Heart, also helps!

27/03/2024

More interesting reading from Sara Wickham

If you step on the scales during a medical or midwifery appointment your BMI will be calculated and used as a screening test to determine what care you will be offered.

You have every right to decline.

Plus size women may also be asked to step on the scales again in late pregnancy.

Again, it’s up to you to decide whether or not this is right for you.

Not your midwife, doctor, doula or childbirth educator, and certainly not the RCOG or NICE.

Remember that guidelines ONLY tell health professionals what to offer.

You do not have to follow any guideline or recommendation, or accept anything that isn’t right for you.

For more information, see my website and books.

You’ll find info on plus size pregnancy at https://www.sarawickham.com/plus

And info on your rights and decisions more generally at https://www.sarawickham.com/me

01/03/2024

STALL HOLDER SPOTLIGHT ⭐⭐⭐

Please welcome Amanda from My Calm Birth as a stall holder for our Health & Wellbeing Festival this Saturday 2nd March.

Amanda Wardle is a private midwife specialist hypnobirthing / antenatal educator with over 35years of experience working in the NHS and privately.
All this experience enables Amanda to offer many different packages, from one-off appointments right through to a full antenatal and postnatal package.

Come and meet Amanda
www.mycalmbirth.com

25/02/2024

If anyone is interested in having a homebirth or just wondering what it might be like 😊

29/01/2024

Thinking of giving birth in water?
Excellent information here - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/muXFDvGdoythnwCh/?mibextid=WC7FNe

A few months ago, a birthing pool company put out a post claiming that there are conditions one needs to meet to be able to use a birthing pool.

These conditions included that one needed to be low risk, and within pre-pregnancy BMI criteria.

In case we’ve not met, hello. I’m not a rival birth pool company. I’m an author and researcher with thirty years of midwifery experience, and a PhD. I write about pregnancy, risk, high BMI and the importance of informed decision making.

And I wanted to reshare some information that I posted in order to set the record straight.

There are, in fact, only three conditions for being able to use a birthing pool.

1. You are birthing
2. You have access to a pool
3. You want to birth in the pool

Now, it’s true that access can sometimes be tricky.

If you decide to give birth in a facility such as a hospital or birth centre, for instance, there may not be a pool available for you to use.

That's one reason why some families hire, buy or borrow their own.

It’s also true that some facilities and care providers might try and restrict your use of a birth pool if you have risk factors, including higher BMI. (More on this in my book on Plus Size Pregnancy).

But these are not absolutes. There are plenty of exceptions.

We know many women who have used birth pools in hospitals and birth centres with a higher BMI and/or other supposed risk factors.

And no-one can stop you from doing what you want in your home.

These restrictive statements also aren’t evidence-based. More on this at www.sarawickham.com/water

And the bottom line is this: your body, your baby, your decision.

That’s why it’s good to do your research beforehand and ask lots of questions.

Please don’t let anyone else restrict your options. Not care providers, not your family, and certainly not birth pool companies.

For information on the benefits of water for birth which is based on actual evidence, see www.sarawickham.com/water