My Juno Anniversary – the Importance of Perinatal Mental Health Support
My first born Ethan – the boy who came along and healed many things in my life, stole my heart and made myself and Chris a family with so much to love for – was born in 2013. He turns 4 soon and this means that I have been accessing and then facilitating peer support for 3 years. My Juno anniversary if you will! My labour and Ethan’s birth were what I would consider traumatic and the start of family life didn’t go too smoothly either. We slowly began adjusting to the magical, bewildering, terrifying, life-affirming job of being parents…
Person-Centred Care in Practice – Andrea Taylor, PG Prizewinner, University of Edinburgh
The latest in our series of blogs from this year’s QNIS Award winners comes from Andrea Taylor, Post Grad at the University of Edinburgh. As a Community Midwife within NHS Lothian, I was offered the opportunity to undertake a Person Centred Care in Practice (PCCiP) MSc module at Edinburgh University Summer School in 2014. This allowed me to explore women centred care within midwifery through models and frameworks used in nursing care and introduced me to new ways of seeing. During the module I began to reflect on how, fundamentally, midwifery, as a practice and model grew naturally within the realms…