Our MVP (Maternity Voices Partnership) is still going strong, with the next meeting coming up on Wednesday 1st May 2019 at Stirchley Baths. The MVP is a team of people who meet to discuss issues...
The latest meeting of the Birmingham and Solihull Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) took place on Thursday last week. Members of the public met up with midwives and other maternity professionals to...
Last week a subgroup of the Birmingham and Solihull Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) went to Birmingham Women's Hospital to do the Fifteen Steps Challenge, and today they're feeding back their...
Do you have recent experience of maternity services in Birmingham or Solihull? We are putting together Birmingham and Solihull’s Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP): a team of people who provide...
Since Gateway began in 2006, our tag line has been "Changing Lives, Changing Services". To change services, we have to play an influencing and sometimes challenging role, sharing evidence of the...
Next week is World Breastfeeding Week, so for this week's Friday Story we thought we'd ask our Pregnancy Outreach Workers (POWs) for their expert advice on breastfeeding. All of our POWs are trained...
This week, with the news that teenage pregnancy rates have once again hit a record low, we thought we'd focus on the teenagers our POWs (Pregnancy Outreach Workers) work with. We've seen a slight...
You are probably aware of our Health Trainers service, but did you know that it includes a Maternal Health Trainers service, providing tailored support for pregnant women? Most women who have a...
One thing we rarely talk about is what happens when a pregnancy has a negative outcome; that is, when a baby is stillborn or dies neonatally (within 28 days). The original aim of the Pregnancy...
