With Woman

With Woman posts…

  • March with Midwives – Inclusion and Exclusion

    Anna is a midwife and part of the With Woman collective. She writes about the challenges facing midwifery in the UK; the grassroots movement March with Midwives; and their exclusion of women who hold and express feminist beliefs. This article was first published on Womans Place UK on 28th November 2021 March with Midwives Last Sunday,…

  • ‘Men, non-binary, or something else’….No, AIMS. Sorry. They’re all ‘women’. 

    When it comes to knowing your choices during pregnancy, birth and afterwards, if you’re in the UK, you need AIMS,  the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services.  For over 60 years, they’ve pioneered a woman-centred approach to maternity care.  AIMS has always recognised this work as political. Of course it is – if you…

  • Open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team

    Please sign our letter to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) This is an open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team in support of their recent strategy document, in which they explain why they feel it is important to retain the word ‘woman’ when delivering services and championing rights in…

  • Families do not breastfeed, mothers do…and we need to say so

    Madeleine Munzer Sydney, Australia This article was first published in World Nutrition https://worldnutritionjournal.org/ind…/wn/article/view/825 It seems obvious that support for mothers is central to global breastfeeding advocacy. The Global Breastfeeding Collective, WHO and UNICEF all emphasise the importance of supporting mothers to breastfeed their infants (World Health Organization, 2018b; Global Breastfeeding Collective et al., 2020; UNICEF,…

  • Mothers. They matter – however they identify. Here’s why.

    Earlier this month, an Open Letter (read the full text of it here) from a collective of UK LGBTQ+ perinatal workers was published, as a ‘means to have a voice’ for inclusion. This is our response.  We too are a collective. We are feminist perinatal workers, mainly in the UK, with several international members. We view…