DON'T FORGET! If you're buying the bestselling Positive Birth Book there is a BRAND NEW edition available! It's fully revised and completely updated, and has a brand new cover design. Don't buy the old one buy the new one! ❤️
amazon.co.uk/dp/1780667655

Would this be a good day to say that The Positive Birth Book was Mumsnet Best Overall Pregnancy Book 2023 and that if you're quick, you can still get a copy for the pregnant woman in your life in time for Xmas? Simply wrap in brown paper and your safety from arrest is guaranteed.

This time 11 years ago I was using social media to launch a grassroots movement to improve birth. At the time it was crystal clear that this was a movement for women. Yet now the language leaps out. You just wouldn't see a post like this in the maternity world now.

On doctors mocking birth plans...

1/ Our paper on the importance of sexed language in maternity argued that desexing language regarding inherently sexed states risks misunderstanding and other deleterious outcomes. We had only reason, anecdote and fundamental research underpinning. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

the NHS should be cautious about commissioning training run by organisations that represent one very small group, and about making changes without an assessment of impacts on diverse and varied cohorts of maternity service users.

magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12…

“This article below shows why the NHS shouldn’t make changes to care or language for one small group of people. Evidence suggests that personalised care is beneficial to all maternity service users, so it may be the case that improving personalised care overall could improve experiences for trans and non-binary service users.”

The ITEMS study is methodologically flawed. The claimed findings are not consistent with the data. Recommendations made are not supported by the findings. Despite these issues, the report was used as the basis for expensive planned intervention in the NHS

magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.129…

Here is issue number 2 of The Word is Woman, my weekly newsletter documenting the erasure of women from language and life. I hope you enjoy, please share! millihill.substack.com/p/the-word-is-…

I think I must be on the twitter naughty step as I'm getting hardly any engagement these days. I'm actually writing a newsletter that I think many of you would LOVE but I bet not many of you have seen my tweets about it, have you? Link is in my bio! X

Are you AUSTRALIAN & have experienced a traumatic birth? Please submit your story to the NSW parliamentary enquiry into birth trauma before August 11th. Anyone from anywhere in Aus can contribute and help make women's voices heard. @BirthTimeWorld

parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/lis…?

Er...this is not a 'new' trend! It's featured in my Positive Birth Book published 2017, and I'm pretty sure I wrote about it a year or two before that in my column for @BestMagOfficial! Nice to see it getting coverage though! Women love this option!
dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

This is your regular reminder that if you want a book for preteen girls about periods and puberty that is grounded in sex based reality, please grab a copy of My Period, or buy one for your local primary school! amazon.co.uk/My-Period-Find…

And if you or someone you know is pregnant and wants to discover more about how to have a positive birth, I have just the book recommendation!
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"Research shows that a positive birth experience is dependent on two things: the birthing mother’s ability to make informed choices and those choices being respected and supported by her care provider."
Fantastic piece with clear sex based language.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The subheads in the print edition of my Mail article today are spot on. 💥 dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…

Great to see that, following some issues earlier this year, the new edition of The Positive Birth Book is now back in stock on Amazon and in all other bookshops!
amazon.co.uk/dp/1780667655#

I'm really sorry that the Positive Birth Book is again unavailable from Amazon. This is to do with ongoing issues with the publisher over which I have no control. It's extremely frustrating. You should be able to get one from any other bookshop and hopefully back on Amazon soon.

"This could put more pressure on women to make compromises and sacrifices at an individual level, when we know that there are many more impactful ways in which both the NHS and the government could address climate change at a national and global level."
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Just came across this list of Positive Birth Movement groups active in Jan 2019. Quite incredible. @birthpositive