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07/11/2025

Please join us in wishing our lovely student midwife ✨JAGODA✨ a huge well done for reaching the important milestone of supporting 40 babies into the world! The number needed to qualify as a midwife! She’s had a particularly busy couple of weeks with us building her own caseload and seeing them at antenatal appointments and then for their births! This is Jagoda’s last placement of her degree and we’ve loved having her, we’ve been lucky to see her develop and strengthen her midwifery skills. It’s always nice to have students come out on placement to us more than once! 🩷

07/11/2025

JUNE STATS

Did you have a June baby with us!? Share photos, stories and thanks in the comments!

07/11/2025

Our stats are back! 🎉 We switched to a new digital system in May so had a delay in retrieving our stats. There are some small gaps in data (water birth!) unfortunately but hopefully going forward we will be able to include them again!

Did you have a MAY baby with us!? Please tell us all about it in the comments/share your photos and thanks!

04/11/2025

Midwives work in teams as the main healthcare provider for women & babies during:

🤰🏻 pregnancy
🤱🏻 childbirth
👩‍👧‍👦 the postnatal period

We thank ALL midwives for the vital lifesaving care they provide to mums & babies around the world—each step of the way.

25/10/2025

We love receiving little Thank you’s from our families 🥰
We love being part of the journey….. ☺️

23/10/2025

👶 Skin-to-skin contact involves placing the naked newborn on the mother’s uncovered chest immediately after birth. This simple practice helps babies adapt to life outside the womb, keeping them warm, reducing stress and crying, and supporting vital functions such as breathing and heart rate.

New Cochrane evidence confirms what many already practice: immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers gives babies a better start in life.

Babies held skin-to-skin within the first hour after birth are more likely to:

🩵 Breastfeed exclusively
🩵 Maintain healthy body temperature and blood sugar
🩵 Breathe and adapt better outside the womb

Importantly, the evidence is now so strong that researchers argue it’s no longer ethical to conduct studies that separate mothers and babies after birth.

“Withholding skin-to-skin contact would now be considered unethical, as there is enough evidence to show that the practice improves newborn health and survival,” says Karin Cadwell, senior author and Executive Director and Lead Faculty of
Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding.

Read more on our website: https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/strong-evidence-supports-skin-skin-contact-after-birth-standard-care

22/10/2025

📣The Community Midwives Shared Decision Making Council want to hear from you - staff and patients!

How could your community experience and wellbeing be improved? Do you have a suggestion? Think antenatal appointments with your midwife, postnatal visits at home etc.

Suggestions for all Lincolnshire teams welcome!
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https://forms.office.com/e/T0gUmUQZig

15/10/2025

10/10/2025

Tonight Di and Catherine attended the trust awards night after Di was nominated for an award by a patient✨

We’d like to say congratulations & well done to our colleague Louise Dixon, Community Midwife from the Lincoln Team on your award this evening! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘