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Today is and 2020's theme focuses on highlighting the tireless efforts of nurses and midwives across the globe, particularly right now. Below are some incredible facts about these healthcare superheroes provided by .

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2020-04-07

Today is World Health Day, let's celebrate contributions from nurses and midwives.
Their contribution is essential in the response. THANK YOU.

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2020-04-07

One of the spots for the lovely newest issue: Through the Looking Glass. These tarot cards explore some guidelines from the Article of the Month, with a little Wonderland Whimsy!

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2020-04-03

So i start assisting at homebirths again in a month. If you have the means please donate for NYC Midwives to get N-95 mask and PPE https://t.co/W88ikNFlUs

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2020-03-27

Some cover closeups of the In Action issue of The Practising Midwife, looking at how midwives support mums and each other through delivery, their work, and sometimes trauma.

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2020-03-09

im buttercup, afroindigenous turtle islander, i work as a freelance illustrator & am the author/artist on a blk magical girl/super sentai comic abt a group of gender-nonconforming spirit-world midwives that can be read at https://t.co/r42IdwV9HS

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2020-02-24

👋🏼 im buttercup 🌼 // they/them // freelance sequential artist & illustrator // working on personal project abt a bunch of blk gnc magical midwives // https://t.co/SCOkusHfAX

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2020-02-21

Out now is the Looking Forward edition! This issue also looks at the personalisation of birth, and midwives getting to know their patients on their journey through childbirth.

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2020-02-05

There will be an performance of 'Midwives' at George Street Playhouse on February 8 (2pm):
https://t.co/HVxPnkerh3

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2020-02-04

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🎼Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
🎵Op.8 no.6 (Concerto à quattro in forma di Pastorale, per il Santo Natale)
📖https://t.co/FMAX8cycYT
🎨Janet McKenzie (Mary with the midwives)
📝https://t.co/zGRiDf2DOz

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2019-12-17

A commission of Isha the bard and her newborn, with her drow friends and midwives, Cyan and Naenia! For Valentina CB.

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2019-07-25

Leto gave birth to the children of Zeus on Delos which, unattached to the ocean floor, was neither ocean nor land. Artemis was born first, and then helped her mother give birth to her brother, Apollo, whereupon she became the goddess of childbirth & midwives.

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2019-06-20

On International Day of the Midwife here is a handy guide - James Wolveridge's C17th midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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2019-05-05

👩‍⚕️🥼The achievements of early-modern midwives such as Jane Sharp are all the more impressive considering that women were excluded from formal medical education. Sharp’s handbook is among the most influential 17th c. texts on midwifery.

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2019-03-09

Find out more about the training of midwives in Victorian Manchester in our fascinating Collection Encounter on 26 February. It's a great opportunity to learn about the sort of research being carried out on our Special Collections: https://t.co/UR3pzkqNnG

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2019-02-04


Crones, hags & witches vilified & stereotyped as cruel, evil & wicked in most folklore & fairy tales, were in fact once the spiritual leaders, healers & midwives of their communities. Highly respected & esteemed as imparters of lived knowledge
🎨Brian Froud

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2019-01-10

Forceps delivery from George Spatt’s Obstetric tables 1833. looks at the flapbook, teaching aid for male https://t.co/beC440t89C

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2018-10-05

*The Man-Midwife* a cartoon from the 1790s, courtesy of Our new exhibition shows how midwives tried to defend their profession from the unwanted interference of men. Catch it from 19 Sept. More @ https://t.co/kjEbj1ltul

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2018-09-07