I loved chatting with Thando Zwane - 'Oxytocin Agents', Love and Courage You can listen here! www.spreaker.com/episode/in-c... @all4maternity.bsky.social
Sheena Byrom
@sheenabyrom.bsky.social
Vintage midwife, mother, grandmother with compassion in mind!
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/
A lost piece of midwifery history - I need your help please.. open.substack.com/pub/sheenaby...
A lost piece of midwifery history - I need your help please..
Last month I visited our local library to ask the history department if they had any information about a midwife who practised in our town during the 1940s and 50s.
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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.
All4Maternity@all4maternity.bsky.social · last yr.All4Maternity Midwife Leaders Anna and Sheena Byrom are delighted and honoured to be selected as Executive Sponsors for the ICM Midwife Leaders Programme ❤️ www.all4maternity.com/all4maternit... @internationalmidwives.org
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...
A Clique, not a Click
An age old dilemma
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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 🙏🏽
All4Maternity@all4maternity.bsky.social · last yr.🎙️ New Podcast Episode Alert! Prof @maryrenfrew.bsky.social discussing the Independent Maternity Review in Northern Ireland with Sheena & Anna Byrom. 🔗 Tune in now and join the conversation about creating safe, compassionate and high-quality care for all. www.spreaker.com/episode/40-i...
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...
Social Media Magic
Is not something I say often....
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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?
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!
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...
