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Midwives must support both breast and bottle feeding
The Royal College of Midwives’ has issued a new statement advising that women should be supported in whichever m...
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Paternal Depression - Father's Mental Health Day 2018
Today marks International Father’s Mental Health Day. As such we wanted to talk specifically about the impact th...
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Join the Make Urine Samples Trustworthy Campaign
The most common diagnostic test for routine and specialist medicine is the analysis of your urine. Why? Because ur...
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Focus week on Maternal Mental Health
The Perinatal Mental Health Partnership’s campaign to highlight the issue of mental illness during and following...
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Can we predict which early babies need extra support?
A specialist unit in Edinburgh has been studying the effect of premature birth on brain development and how to imp...
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Experts urge for flour to be fortified with folic acid
A recent study has urged for flour producers to fortify flour with folic acid to protect babies from neural tube d...
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High rates of mental health problems during pregnancy
A study carried out by King’s College London has found that one in four women in their test study were diagnosed...
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Rising Infant Mortality Rate
That latest figures on infant mortality have been released from the Office for National Statistics and demonstrate...
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Wellbeing Wallets for Shrewsbury & Doncaster
MAMA Academy are thrilled to announce their MAMA Wellbeing Wallets are now being distributed to all pregnant women...
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NICE calls for more support for pre-term babies
NICE have advised in their latest draft quality standard, that families are not being adequately supported when ha...
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IMUK Loses Challenge Against NMC
In December 2016, The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) issued a decision that the indemnity cover that Indepen...