Maternal Matters

17/04/2026

14/04/2026

📣Yesterday’s interview📣

Supporting ⬇️⬇️⬇️



📣The figures are referring to (Newly qualified midwives) Band 5 jobs
📣Band 6 midwife jobs are available because there is a shortage of experienced midwives
📣So we are already at a deficit of midwives Uk wide
📣But without the continuous recruitment the situation worsens! The maths don’t add up 🤔
📣By no means FIXES the systemic issues but it’s another addition to the maternity crisis!

🙏Huge THANKS to everyone that supported them ⚡️✨💫





Midwives from across the country gathered at St.Peter’s square to raise awareness for the crisis in maternity and specifically the student midwives who are being asked to do unpaid work with no guarantee of a job at the end of their studies - when there was one in the past.

It’s a concerning trend for the NHS with doctors strikes just finished and midwives telling us that poor working conditions are leading to unsafe treatment of women.

To hear more from Abigail, Charlotte & Kira, you can find the full video on our YouTube

14/04/2026

📣Why I speak up📣

📣People ask why do I bother? Why do I risk “getting in trouble”
📣Swipe ➡️to see these amazing student midwives publicly demonstrating despite critics! A shining example of fighting against what they believe is right ⬇️



BECAUSE ⬇️

It shouldn’t take tragedy for voices to be heard. 💔

When it comes to maternity care, silence protects systems — not families. Every single one of us has a responsibility to speak up about failures, trauma poor care, coercion, and the experiences that too often get dismissed or ignored. Families have a responsibility too, not to accept treatment as substandard because of the known crisis.

Because behind every story is a mother, a baby, a family forever changed. 🤍

We need honesty. We need accountability. We need change.

If you’ve experienced it — your voice matters.
If you’ve witnessed it — say something.
If you care — don’t stay silent.

Together, we can push for change, CHANGE doesn’t come easy….but we all deserve safer, more compassionate care for everyone. ✊✨

BirthRights EndTheSilence

12/04/2026

Get Repost App • NHS midwife Abigail, sharing empowering content and education 📣Student midwife protest 📣

No jobs for NQMs no future midwifery work force

📣Save the date Monday 13/04/26 2pm

📍St Peter’s square

Bring your placards banners, friends, family babies, children 🥁🥁🥁
Family friendly ✨🥁📣⚡️🙌

Supporting⬇️⬇️⬇️




❤️Like, tag, share let’s show out support

📣🙌Hands up who’s coming?

Drop me a ❤️if you are coming to Manchester 🐝the greatest city in the uk 🙌 I’ll be there ⚡️⚡️⚡️

12/04/2026

📣Marching for student midwives 📣

📣Tmrw 13.04.26 2pm

📍St Peter’s square Manchester

📣Lets go ⚡️⚡️⚡️🙌🙌🙌

📣Let’s make some noise !
📣Bring your friends & family, babies & children
📣Please like, tag, share!
📣See you there ⚡️🙌💫✨

Supporting ⬇️

11/04/2026

📣March with midwives 2021📣

📣Over 300 came to support us
📣My girl Maria aged 6 with pregnant Tori ✨read out a ⬇️

💌💌💌

📣STUDENT midwives supported us🙌✨⚡️
📣Let’s show our support on Monday for ⬇️



📍13:04:26 2pm St. Peter’s square ✨💫🙌

📣I’ll be there let me know if your coming!
📣 and I will be there 🙌🥰
📣Family friendly bring your babies and kids, 🥁 drums and banners.
📣Please like, tag, share ✨
Abigail 🤍🙏✨

09/04/2026

If I was pregnant right now—as a midwife—what would I actually do to navigate the NHS maternity system in this crisis? 🤰🏽

I get asked this ALL the time… so here it is 👇🏽

💡 I’d get informed early
Not just the basics—your birth rights, your options, and what true informed consent looks like. Knowledge isn’t extra—it’s protection, invest in a unbiased education course (I’ll list my faves in comments) ⚡️

👩🏽‍⚕️ I’d try choose my care team carefully
Continuity matters. I’d ask questions, trust my instincts, and switch providers if something didn’t feel right. You deserve to feel safe, seen, and heard.

📋 I’d write a flexible birth plan
Not a rigid script—but clear preferences. What matters to you? What are your boundaries? Put it in writing.

🗣️ I’d practice advocacy (or bring someone who can)
Birth is vulnerable. I’d make sure someone in the room can speak up if I can’t— I would HIRE A DOULA like Hannah Campbell | Doula & Coach for Powerful Women ✨💫🙌

🏡 I’d explore all settings
Hospital, birth centre, home birth—what’s actually available to YOU locally? Don’t assume—ask.
Individualizing myself every time I make a decision !

🧠 I’d protect my mental space & prepare by body
Less fear-based stories, more grounded education. Your mindset going in matters more than people realise. I’d choose a pregnancy yoga course like Yoga Manchester | Creative Calm🌿

❌I would decline routine timeline offers like Sweeps, inductions, growth scans if that was right for me in that moment.

📞 I’d prepare for “what ifs”
Induction, interventions, delays—know your options BEFORE you’re in the moment.

🤍 And most importantly…
I’d trust my body—but I’d also trust myself to question the system when needed. I’d dig DEEPER into my maternal intuition because I know how powerful it is ✨

You deserve better care—and it starts with knowing you have choices 💛

Save this for later & tag share with someone who needs this! What else would you add?
Abigail ✨
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06/04/2026

💛The mighty colostrum💛

Aka 💛Liquid gold💛

Re share

Colostrum: the first nutrition 💛

Packed with antibodies, growth factors, and gut-loving nutrients, colostrum helps support immunity, digestion, and birth recovery 💛

💛Think of it as nature’s original superfood — small but incredibly powerful.

Your gut, immune system, and overall wellness all start here 💛

💛Have you tried breast milk? How would you describe the taste?

YOU try it? 👀 🤱🏼

05/04/2026

No one talks about this part enough… 🤍

TABOO 😵This subject has come up several times this week!

😢Pregnancy isn’t always enjoyable, some people just have to get through it, ie some dislike the babies movements, some are so unwell every day is a struggle. But you must act grateful right?

👶🏽The part where you love your child deeply… but still grieve the life you had before.
The quiet moments where you think, “Did I make a mistake?” 😞
The flashes of resentment, exhaustion, or even wishing for space… and then the guilt that crashes in right after 🌊
As a community midwife and mother I often open up this conversation, and then people share 💫

💫Motherhood / parenthood isn’t just love and magic ✨
It’s loss. It’s identity shifts. It’s missing who you used to be while trying to embrace who you are now. Your life has changed forever!

You are not a bad parent for having these thoughts.
You are human💛

Two things can exist at once:
You can adore your child… and still mourn your old life.
You can be grateful… and still struggle.

Let’s stop pretending it’s all bliss and start holding space for the messy middle 🤍

If you’ve ever felt this way, you’re not alone. You’re seen. You’re understood. 🤝

Did you have/had these feelings? I know I did Tell me ⬇️⬇️⬇️

RealMomLife BreakingTheSilence

03/04/2026

💫Why I’m leaving 💫

⚡️➡️ SWIPE➡️⚡️

Are you surprised?

The next chapter 💫✨🙏

🤍Abigail

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01/04/2026

🤍Midwives matter too. 🤍

🫠working inside a relentless broken NHS system.

🃏I can take satire humor towards midwives, in fact I’m a huge fan of but the jokes are turning NASTY ☄️I’m not personally offended however ⬇️

🙏We have been begging for help for years, but show up everyday on understaffed wards, managing unsafe workloads, whilst still delivering skilled, compassionate care—despite a system that is stretched beyond its limits. WITHOUT little praise from management ⚡️

🫣Ofc there are BAD 🥚 eggs, midwives have caused harm NO DOUBT 💯but aggressive polarized views are not helpful. You don’t have to respect our profession, but creating divides primarily between women, supports the patriarchy and diverts the attention away from us all being DONE over by the government!

💯i absolutely ENCOURAGE parents to prepare well to birth in the NHS & QUESTION everything! Hire a doula, but insinuating parents cannot trust midwives is going too far, not helpful at all, I mean We are mostly women too also giving birth in the NHS we are not immune to birth trauma consider that! 🤜✨

🔥We need midwives - A book by the late Michel odent 🤍✨🙏Without us the system would worsen, services collapse, inequalities widen, and outcomes get worse. It’s that simple.

So let’s be clear 👇

Villainising midwives will not fix maternity care.

It won’t solve chronic understaffing.
It won’t fix underfunding.
It won’t address systemic failures that have been ignored for years.

Midwives are not the problem—the system is.

If the NHS wants safer maternity services, it must invest in staffing, support, and retention. Until then, midwives will keep being asked to do the impossible.

Support midwives, to pressure the government and people with power to make changes. 🩺✊

Would love to know your views
Please be respectful 🙏