#midwifery — Public Fediverse posts
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The culture surrounding ‘ideal’ childbirth has to evolve | Letters
By Guardian StaffMolly O’Brien responds to an article by Natalie Morris about her five-day labour, while an NHS doctor shares her personal experience of feeling ‘othered’
#Childbirth #Pregnancy #Women #Health #NHS #Midwifery #Doctors #Parentsandparenting #Society #Family #Healthwellbeing #YvetteCooper #Labour #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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🌍 ONE CONFERENCE. ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES.
#NursingConference #NursingResearch #Midwifery #HealthcareInnovation #HealthcareLeadership #GlobalHealthcare #ClinicalResearch #HealthcareEducation #EvidenceBasedPractice #DigitalHealth #PublicHealth #MedicalResearch #AcademicConference #ResearchConference #HealthcareProfessionals #FlorenceItaly #Networking #PresentYourResearch #SpectrumConferences #ISNMHI2027
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Rising numbers of younger midwives quitting NHS in England, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/20/younger-midwives-nhs-england-burnout-maternity-staffing #Midwifery #Nhs #England #Health #Society #UkNews
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Rising numbers of younger midwives quitting NHS in England, data shows
By Denis Campbell Health policy editorExclusive: Maternity staffing shortages worsen as more and more under-35s quit because of burnout
#Midwifery #NHS #England #Health #Society #UKnews #TheGuardian #DenisCampbellHealthpolicyeditor
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A rhyme to recall rising temperatures | Brief letters
By Guardian StaffThe new normal | Cool school | Italian idiom | Word Wheel | Covid failings
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/19/a-rhyme-to-recall-rising-temperatures
#Climatecrisis #Languages #Extremeweather #Schools #Treesandforests #Environment #Covidinquiry #Education #Privateschools #Language #CrystalPalace #Midwifery #Coronavirus #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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As a frontline worker, my anger over the Tories’ handling of Covid has not abated | Letter
By Guardian StaffResponding to the Covid inquiry’s findings on PPE, midwife Laura Matthews recalls the fear she felt working without adequate protection
#Covidinquiry #Coronavirus #Midwifery #Society #Hospitals #BorisJohnson #Health #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Author of England maternity care review ‘listened to wrong voices’, says adviser https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/01/valerie-amos-review-maternity-care-england-report-normal-birth-bill-kirkup #HealthPolicy #WomensHealth #Nhs #Hospitals #Midwifery #Childbirth #Pregnancy #Health #UkNews #Women #England
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‘Horrific’ maternity care failings at Nottingham NHS trust prompt calls for public inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/24/horrific-maternity-care-failings-at-nottingham-nhs-trust-prompt-calls-for-public-inquiry #Nhs #Nottingham #Hospitals #Women #Health #WomensHealth #UkNews #Society #Midwifery
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Nottingham maternity care scandal review: what are the key findings? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/24/nottingham-maternity-care-scandal-review-key-findings #Nhs #Pregnancy #WomensHealth #Hospitals #Midwifery #Health #Nottingham #England #UkNews #Society #Women
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Ockenden report live: largest maternity review in NHS history to be published https://www.theguardian.com/society/live/2026/jun/24/ockenden-maternity-review-nottingham-university-hospitals-trust-nhs-latest-news-updates #Nhs #Midwifery #Health #Society #Nottingham #UkNews
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Midwives on frontline of childbirth deaths crisis denied visas for key summit https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/19/midwives-africa-asia-mother-baby-childbirth-deaths-crisis-denied-visas-summit-portugal #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #MaternalHealth #MaternalMortality #Midwifery #ChildrensHealth #Portugal #Europe #Health #Society #WorldNews
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UK nurses and midwives who should have been banned have worked for last 12 years https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/27/uk-nurses-midwives-not-banned-worked-12-years-nursing-and-midwifery-council #Nursing #Midwifery #HealthPolicy #UkNews #Nhs
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Today is International Midwive's Day https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/hospital.html?s=mb #travel #midwifery
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Today is International Midwive's Day https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/hospital.html?s=mb #travel #midwifery
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Black women in Georgia turn to midwives for safer births – so why does the state criminalize many of them? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/11/georgia-midwives-black-women-pregnancy-birth #Georgia #Midwifery #Pregnancy #Race #UsNews #UsPolitics #Health #HealthWellbeing
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Women feel coerced during maternity care in England, charity says https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/17/maternity-care-coercion-pressure-england-birthrights #Midwifery #WomensHealth #Pregnancy #Health #Society #UkNews
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Families welcome appointment of Donna Ockenden to Leeds maternity inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/10/donna-ockenden-appointment-leeds-maternity-inquiry #Leeds #Hospitals #Nhs #WesStreeting #UkNews #Midwifery #Childbirth #Health #Society #Women
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The recent Guardian headline* about the world being short a million midwives connected to our School's history in leading the Lancet Series on Midwifery**
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2014-lancet-series-midwifery-midwife-shortages-jan-r-b%C3%B6hnke-itd9e"[...] #midwifery is an essential intervention that can substantively improve survival, health, and well-being in low-, middle-, and high-income countries" ***
#DundeeUni #BanasGluine #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth
** https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/midwifery
*** Taken from https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/dac997a2-328f-4fba-9be1-78052a32c38d?page=1
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Did you know some animals, from primates to rodents, have their own “midwives” helping with birth? 😮🐀🐒 #midwife #midwifery #midwives #animals #amazinganimals
“Midwifery” in the Animal King... -
On manuscripts as birth girdles.
#MiddleAges #midwifery #childbirth #folklore #histhealth
https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-resources/publications/courtauld-books-online/continuous-page-scrolls-and-scrolling-from-papyrus-to-hypertext/9-reconsidering-the-english-birth-girdle-tradition-katherine-storm-hindley/ cc @Mmedejantee -
Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Moirai
In ancient Greek religion & mythology, the Moirai (a.k.a. in English as the Fates) were the personification of destiny.
There were 3 sisters named: Clotho, who was the spinner; Lachesis, who was the allotter; & Atropos, who was the inevitable, a symbol for death. Their Roman equals are the Parcae.
The Moirai’s role was to make sure that every being, mortal & divine, lived out their destinies. For mortals, this destiny went their entire lives & is pictured as a thread spun from a spindle. A spindle is the thing that Sleeping Beauty touched to become Sleeping Beauty.
Usually, they were considered to be above even the gods, in their role as enforcers of Fate. Zeus was even scared of them. Even though, in some stories, Zeus is able to command them. But these are rare.
The word Moirai (also spelt Moirae or Moerae) comes from Ancient Greek. This means “lots, destinies, apportioners.” It also means a portion, or lot of the whole.
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Fates are mentioned in both Inferno & Purgatorio by their Greek names. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Weird Sisters (or 3 Witches) are prophetesses, who are deeply rooted in both the real & supernatural worlds.
The Moirai are:
- Clotho, the spinner. She spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equal was Nona (“the 9th”), who was originally called upon in the 9th month of pregnancy.
- Lachesis, the allotter or drawer of lots. She measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equal was Decima (“the 10th”).
- Atropos, “inexorable,” or inevitable,” literally “unturning.” She was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person’s death. When their time has come, she would cut their life-thread with her shears. Think about the end of Disney’s Hercules, when our main man, Herc, went to save Meg from Hades’ domain. Herc’s life-thread turned gold when he saved. Her Roman equal was Morta (“the dead one”).
In the Republic of Plato, the 3 Moirai sing together with the music of the Seirenes. Lachesis sings the things that were, Clotho the things that are, & Atropos the things that are to be. Pindar, in his Hymn to the Fates, holds them in high honor. He calls them to send their sisters, the Hours (Eunomia, “lawfulness”; Dike, “right”; & Eirene, “peace”), to stop the internal civil strife.
In the Theogony, Hesiod describes the Moirai as daughters of the primeval goddess Nyx (“night”), & the sisters of the Keres (“the black fates”), Thanatos (“death”), & Nemesis (“retribution”). Later in the poem, Hesiod instead calls them daughters of Zeus & the Titaness Themis (“the Institutor”), who was the embodiment of divine order & law. This places them as sisters of the Hours.
In the cosmogony of Alcman (7th century BC), first came Thetis (“disposer, creation”) & then simultaneously Poros (“path”) & Tekmor (“end post, ordinance”). Poros is related to the end of all things.
Later, in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis, whose ineffable nature is unexpected. Ananke (“necessity”) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate & Time. They were sometimes called to control the fates of the gods. The 3 Moirai are daughters of Ananke.
In the Theogony of Hesiod, the 3 Moirai are personified as the daughters of Nyx & are acting the gods. Later they were daughters of Zeus & Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order & law. In Pluto’s Republic, the 3 Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity).
The Moirai were supposed to appear 3 nights after a kid’s birth to determine the course of its life. At Sparta, the Temple to the Moirai stood near the communal hearth of the polis. Polis means “city” in Ancient Greek.
As the goddesses of birth who even prophesied the fate of the newly born, Elieithyia, the ancient Minoan goddess of childbirth & divine midwifery, was their companion.
The Erinyes, a group of chthonic goddesses of vengeance, served as tools of the Moirai. Chthonic means concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. They inflicted punishment for evil deeds, particularly upon those who sought to avoid their rightful destiny. The Morai were confused with the Erinyes, as well as the death-goddesses, the Keres.
In earlier times, they were pictured as only a few, or perhaps only 1, individual goddess Homer’s Illiad speaks generally of the Moira, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth. She’s Moria Krataia, “powerful Moira,” or there are several Moirai.
In the Odyssey, there’s a reference to the Klothes, or spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth & Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite was called Aphrodite Urania, the “eldest of the Fates.”
In the older myths, they’re daughters of primeval beings like Nyx (“night”) in Theogony, or Ananke in Orphic cosmogony.
The Moirai could be placated as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair, & women swore by them. They may have originated as a birth goddesses & only later their reputation as the agents of destiny. The Moirai were also credited to be the inventors of 7 Greek letters – A, B, H, I, T, & Y.
The Fates had at least 3 known temples: Ancient Corinth, Sparta, & Thebes. The temple in Sparta was situated next to the grave/tomb of Orestes.
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Starting from next month eligible nursing, midwifery, teaching, and social work students will be able to apply for the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP), designed to help with the everyday expenses associated with undertaking unpaid placements. If this is you, see the link below to put your application in.
https://www.education.gov.au/commonwealth-prac-payment-cpp
#FlindersUni
https://students.flinders.edu.au/finances-and-admin/commonwealth-prac-payment#AdelaideUni
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Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life https://theconversation.com/images-of-gazas-starving-babies-have-gone-round-the-world-this-is-what-malnutrition-does-in-the-first-1-000-days-of-life-257462 #palestine #warcrimes #genocide #health #midwifery #science #STEM
