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...
Listening to Maternity Voices
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Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnerships Articles
Taking the Fifteen Steps For Maternity challenge
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...
Help us to shape local maternity services
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...
Making voices heard: the Maternity Voices Partnership
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...
Why breast is best – some tips from our breastfeeding experts!
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...
Teenage pregnancies: working with young people
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...
Maternal Health Trainers: tailored support for pregnant women
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...
Not always a happy ending
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...
Pregnancies and care proceedings: breaking the cycle
If you are affected by the issues in this story, please click here to see a list of links and phone numbers that might help. This week, the BBC wrote about new research showing that thousands...