Edinburgh University Pregnancy Research Team

28/11/2025

A blog on healthcare professionals and conversations about physical exercise in pregnancy:

https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2025/11/28/how-should-healthcare-professionals-talk-to-pregnant-women-about-physical-activity/.

Authors: Chloë Williamson, Graham Baker, Marlize De Vivo, Hayley Mills, Linda Bauld, Rebecca M. Reynolds, Anna Boath, and Paul Kelly. A new scoping review aimed to understand what is known about how healthcare professionals communicate about physical activity during pregnancy in the UK. Despite wel...

06/11/2025

We have a new study looking at the impact of weight loss drugs on pregnancy.

If you have had a positive pregnancy test within 6 months of taking a weight loss drug such as Mounjaro, Ozempic or Wegovy please consider taking our anonymous survey.

👉Survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/weight-loss-medication-and-pregnancy-survey

📲 Please share this post to help us reach more people

07/05/2025

Sending thanks and good wishes to all midwives around the world for this year's International Day of the Midwife 🥰

🌍💙 Today on International Day of the Midwife, we celebrate the incredible dedication, care and compassion of our midwives across NHS Lothian.

Thank you for everything you do!

07/05/2025

We are seeking voluntary help from our NICU graduate parents whose babies were born at

21/04/2025

Are you looking for a new challenge? Wanting to learn more about pregnancy research and help us deliver our research projects?

Edinburgh Pregnancy Research Team is looking for 2 research midwives and 2 lab technicians to join our team at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.

Research Midwives --> https://shorturl.at/nShx9

Lab Technicians --> https://shorturl.at/63tDM and https://shorturl.at/t8vEb

We look forward to hearing from you!

20/02/2025

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A wee reminder... from 10th June, 2024, until further notice: All newly pregnant individuals in NHS Lothian are being **automatically included** in the 'Born in Scotland' pregnancy research study.

The 'Born in Scotland' study hopes to find out how health in pregnancy and early childhood shapes our lives.

Help our team of researchers try to answer questions like:
~ Why are some babies born too early or ill?
~ How does our time in the womb shape our health throughout our lives?

** You don't have to take part if you don't want to! **

To withdraw please click here: https://tinyurl.com/BorninScotlandwithdraw
Call 0131 242 2480
Or speak to your Community Midwife

To provide further additional consent for the research team:
~ DNA analysis consent: https://cardiovascular-science.ed.ac.uk/.../dna-consent
~ Consent to be contacted about related studies: https://cardiovascular-science.ed.ac.uk/.../consent-contact

Thank you - from the 'Born in Scotland' study team

Having A Baby In Lothian

19/02/2025

An important opportunity coming up surrounding advocacy in maternity care.

Five X More Having A Baby In Lothian KWISA -African Women In Scotland Association

01/02/2025

Congrats to the St John’s team for this!
Having A Baby In Lothian

15/01/2025

Sharing a local related event for info and Parents Centre in

"The Albany Midwifery Practice was a groundbreaking, gold standard model of midwifery care, based on the principle of relational continuity of carer. The Practice ran successfully in London for twelve and a half years before its untimely closure on grounds of ‘safety’. Becky Reed was a founder member of the Practice. Now a retired midwife, she remains determined to spread the message that the AMP model is a safe, successful and practical way of working for the future. Becky now has 13 grandchildren, and has written 2 books: 'Birth in Focus' (2016), and 'Closure' with Nadine Edwards, which was published last year and tells the story of how the AMP was 'demonised and dismantled."

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/continuity-of-midwifery-carer-the-benefits-of-relational-care-tickets-1113645586929?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawHo6f5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYwhKdJEj3OaFukb-3ociLzkJwA2qnN4-hBl4B-nUtercdcl8Fnutq3NXA_aem_A8h8d8IHaA5SKjVvk8s7pA

Having A Baby In Lothian

From her wealth of experience, Becky Reed details the benefits of relationship-based maternity care, for both families and midwives.

22/12/2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A wee reminder... from 10th June, 2024, until further notice: All newly pregnant individuals in NHS Lothian are being **automatically included** in the 'Born in Scotland' pregnancy research study.

The 'Born in Scotland' study hopes to find out how health in pregnancy and early childhood shapes our lives.

Help our team of researchers try to answer questions like:
~ Why are some babies born too early or ill?
~ How does our time in the womb shape our health throughout our lives?

** You don't have to take part if you don't want to! **

To withdraw please click here: https://tinyurl.com/BorninScotlandwithdraw
Call 0131 242 2480
Or speak to your Community Midwife

To provide further additional consent for the research team:
~ DNA analysis consent: https://cardiovascular-science.ed.ac.uk/.../dna-consent
~ Consent to be contacted about related studies: https://cardiovascular-science.ed.ac.uk/.../consent-contact

Thank you - from the 'Born in Scotland' study team