I loved chatting with Thando Zwane - 'Oxytocin Agents', Love and Courage You can listen here! www.spreaker.com/episode/in-c... @all4maternity.bsky.social

Are you a midwife who has significant experience of using interpreters to discuss mental health with women? How do you do that effectively? 🤔. Would you be willing to share those experiences and help help shape future good practice recommendations? 🤔 Contact me 4 more info…

Enabling Access to Enhanced Care Models for Vulnerable Women can transform outcomes for childbearing women but only if barriers to access are removed. Read Research Unwrapped in the latest issue #TPM https://www.all4maternity.com/enabling-access-to-enhanced-care-models-for-vulnerable-women/#TPM

A lost piece of midwifery history - I need your help please.. open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...

How times have changed: breastfeeding support in the 1970s… Here I am, breastfeeding our CEO! @all4maternity.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...

The reduction in midwife-led options for childbirth and the rise in medical interventions. We are hosting the first seminar for the Midwifery and Maternity Birth Collective TOMORROW evening, with Soo Downe, Andrew Weeks, Claire Feeley and Anna Horn. hub.all4maternity.com/product/mam-...

I was sorry to miss the official launch of this important book - what a joy it was to contribute to the content, with my daughter Anna. #MidwiferyLove www.routledge.com/Love-and-Mid...

What a huge privilege. Thank you @internationalmidwives.org ❤️ for the opportunity.

Look who I met up with, by chance, in San Sebastián, Spain, yesterday! Soo Downe, for those of you who don’t know her, she’s a professor of midwifery. And my buddy and advocate. Soo is cycling with her partner, and happened to be close by. Incredible. We had two hours of non-stop chatter.

What a beautiful account from a retired midwife, now in a care home, remembering special times. “It was such a wonderful job.” Patricia Walcott-Lee reflects on her journey from Jamaica to South London, delivering joy & babies along the way. www.all4maternity.com/patricia-rem...

I keep forgetting to post here. Yet I hear this is the place to be - Blue Sky. Tonight I wrote a post on my Substack account in response to a shocking but not uncommon message from a student midwife on a Facebook group. All is revealed here sheenabyrom.substack.com/p/a-clique-n...

This is Collioure - France. A wee trip in our camper!

In my @all4maternity.bsky.social hoodie in France - feeling joyous after hearing good news from our son. He has a new job! Sharing happiness this evening ❤️

‘We have a national crisis. Some call it a perfect storm. If midwifery-led services are scaled back, more women will be referred to obstetric-led units unnecessarily’. open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...

Wearing my gifted #BeMoreLaura hoodie reminded me of the evening I met Laura’s parents and listened to their journey of love and loss - and courage. What a family ❤️ www.bemorelaura.com

I’ve been sharing this on many platforms - a podcast episode about the important maternity review of NI, lead by a remarkable Prof of Midwifery @maryrenfrew.bsky.social 🙏🏽

Our eldest granddaughter is 19 today - and we are proud! Happy Birthday Minnie!

🎥 Join us & the Birth Wars filmmaking team for a screening & discussion of power struggles shaping birth in Mexico—and the bridges that could save lives. 🗓 April 23 & 24 | Free for members ➡️ Register now→ www.qmnc.org/about-qmnc/calabash-cafe/ ➡️ Join QMNC→ www.qmnc.org #BirthWars #QMNC #Calabash

A meeting on X (Twitter) how can that be magic? It was, a certain kind of ‘it was meant to be’ magic. And a real friendship formed from one like and share. #BeMoreLaura open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...

Thank you for all your #kindness & all you do! 🧡 #nurses #midwives #healthcare #paramedics #doctors @kathevans2.bsky.social @sheenabyrom.bsky.social @fwmaternity.bsky.social @karenellab.bsky.social @racheln76.bsky.social @midwifekookie.bsky.social @nurseninapa.bsky.social 🧡

Will always be one of the most rewarding experiences of my career - supporting midwives in Bulgaria 💕 open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...

“Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.” Brené Brown Just checking in to see how you are…Sending positive ripples your way today. Because sometimes, the smallest check-in can mean the most.🧡 #kindness #positivity #connection Picture by Art of Brilliance

Gosh I’ve not been keeping up with posting here - too many platforms! Is there not a poll function here, so I can ask questions?

Always a treat! #Spring

The women in this photo are my older sisters. We were five girls. I never experienced gender inequality - I wasn’t even aware of it. I now know something different but because of them I’m totally able to be who I want to be, without prejudice, most of the time. This is my sister’s wedding. I am 10

My wish for International Women’s Day - for birth trauma to be a thing of the past. That I cease to receive messages from women saying ‘never again’ and midwives saying ‘I want out of this, I don’t want to be part of it’. I’ll keep doing my bit - my life’s work.

📢 WHOHOO! 🍃March issue of our TPM journal is here, and look who’s on the front cover – our very own Editor-in-Chief, Alys Einion! Alys is our ‘Midwife of the Moment’, part of this year’s focus on real midwives around the 🌍making a difference. 💜 Check out these EXCELLENT articles!

No more words needed. These are my youngsters ❤️

Stopped me in my tracks - just the sheer expanse of colour in the sky as I made my way home. #redskyatnight

✨ New Podcast Episode Alert! 🎧 🌿 Join midwifery leader Sam Todd and student midwife Kurt Lee as they explore the realities of maternity care and midwifery practice, being a male midwife and engineering HOPE with midwife Sheena Byrom. It's fab! www.spreaker.com/episode/epis...

Great paper. I urge consideration of the immediate postnatal experience too. Home birth avoids the appallingly disruptive process of mum & baby shovelled from labour room to postnatal ward to often-anxious trip home within 24 hours while the level of attention paid by caregivers ‘falls off a cliff’.

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama Be kind, just because. 🧡 #kindness #KindnessMatters Artwork by Nicholas Megalis

Loved chatting to Megan!

🌿 The role of the hospice midwife is emerging as a vital source of comfort and care for families facing perinatal loss. Combining midwifery expertise with palliative care, these professionals provide compassionate support during the most difficult moments. www.nursingtimes.net/end-of-life-...

Yes! We are here if you need us! #Midwives @sheenabyrom.bsky.social and Anna ❤️🌸

It’s one of those photos taken in a photo booth called a Photomaton. 1971 & I’m meeting my French penpal for the second time - we are both 15. Genevieve is still my dear friend & her family and ours are forever entwined! I am so grateful that we chose each other a lifetime ago! Quelle chance 🌟

Midwifery Practice Supervisors & Lecturers—what do you love most about working with students? Here's what others have said💜Tell us anonymously via a voice note (it takes less than 10 mins!). #Midwifery #PositiveMidwiferyProject app.voiceform.com/to/xpjAjo35g....

In London for the @midwiferyforum.bsky.social tomorrow…we walked a few miles in the rain - sometimes arriving in places we didn’t expect. It was fab! Oh the joys of being a midwife 👏🏽🌟💕

@sheenabyrom.bsky.social shared a conversation with Martha Agbornyenty, a midwife from Cameroon on a mission! 👶🏾💙 Founder of the Mom and Baby Foundation, Martha is dedicated to maternal and child health. A change-maker & leader! www.spreaker.com/episode/33-m...

It’s my sister Anne’s 80th birthday next week and on Tuesday I spent the day with her and gave her a foot and leg massage. Better than a material gift. My other sister Eileen cooked delicious food for us all. Being together is the most important thing - as time passes we cherish each moment. ♥️

When you’re invited to a 60s birthday party and the theme is ‘old age’ - and you’re old already- it’s a challenge. But I think we managed?

💦 Waterbirth: Evolutions in Evidence and Practice 💦 In the latest TPM issue, Diane Garland wrote the Article of the Month where she shares knowledge of the waves of change across waterbirth, experienced during her 42 years as a midwife. www.all4maternity.com/waterbirth-e...

🎉 IT’S HERE – THE BIG REVEAL! Australian midwife Bonnie Hughes, the brilliant mind behind the Making a Midwife podcast has gifted all episodes to us! 💛✨ Listen here or on your favourite platform (search for All4Maternity)🎧 www.all4maternity.com/sharing/maki... @hannahdahlen.bsky.social

We loved welcoming you @hannahdahlen.bsky.social can you spot your photo?

Looking for a midwife / ethnographer to work part time on an exciting NIHR-funded study at KCL with a great team! Will involve travel to study sites in north of England. Pls share and DM if interested for more info. www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cor... @phdmidwives.bsky.social

The Real Midwives of Poplar! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

theconversation.com/caesareans-a... important article around increased caesarean sections from Soo Downe and Carol Kingdon @uclan.ac.uk

Hi, my first Bluesky post as part of positive action in 2025. Have joined and joined in. Great to find old friends and colleagues, and new ones. Looking for #maternity #research and #publicinvolvement contacts and information, as well as shifting gear into current personal interests and concerns.

Thank you for all your #kindness & all you do! 🧡 #nurses #midwives #healthcare #paramedics @kathevans2.bsky.social @sheenabyrom.bsky.social @fwmaternity.bsky.social @karenellab.bsky.social @racheln76.bsky.social @midwifekookie.bsky.social @nurseninapa.bsky.social (Image by Beth Evans)