My Juno Anniversary – the Importance of Perinatal Mental Health Support
Tess Askew is a co-founder of Juno, a perinatal support group, discussing her personal story and the importance of good mental health. 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…
Person-Centred Care in Practice – Andrea Taylor, PG Prizewinner, University of Edinburgh
Andrea Taylor, Post Graduate Prizewinner at the University of Edinburgh tells us about putting person centred care into practice. 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 of women centred, relationship…
