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26/12/2025

🎄Christmas can be a joyful time - but it can also feel long and exhausting, especially with a young baby.

Before you pick them up, pause and check the 3 Cs:

Calm – are you calm?
Careful – can you be careful?
Caring – will you be caring?

Find out more at https://iconcope.org/3Cs

Wishing you a safe, happy Christmas and New Year.

25/12/2025

Mandy and Karen are out and about visiting some of Sleaford’s new Mums and babies today ❤️ 3 day old baby Ellie here is enjoying her very first Christmas 🎅🏼

25/12/2025

From all of us to all of you…. 🎄🧑‍🎄🤶👶
Merry Christmas and wishing you all a very happy and healthy 2026! Lots of love from us all! 😘

20/12/2025

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Did you know? A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of midwifery continuity of care found significant impacts on labor, birth, and maternal/infant outcomes. Birthing parents were more likely to birth vaginally and after 37 weeks gestation, and less likely to have a cesarean, episiotomy, or induction of labor.

Consider what continuity of care looks like in your community, alongside access to midwifery care. How might you support clients in your community in advocating for greater continuity where it’s an option for them?

You can learn more about the review here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105300

20/12/2025

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Holly’s life ended in the most brutal way at the hands of her abuser. She was just 26 years old. In her memory, we are sharing red flag behaviours of perpetrators of domestic abuse and information on the help and support available.

This is another Christmas that family face without Holly, pictured here as they would like her to be remembered – a loving, happy girl who should have had her life ahead of her.

Red flag behaviour:
🚩 Jealousy, suspicion, rage, control – this is not the behaviour of a loving partner.
🚩 Love bombing you one minute, only to give you the silent treatment the next.
🚩 Asking you repeatedly where you are going or where you are.
🚩 Following you, monitoring your phone, or checking on you relentlessly.
🚩 Isolating you from your friends and family.
🚩 Harming, or threatening to harm your pets.
🚩 Threatening to hurt themselves if you leave.

Help and support:
➡️ The Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Specialist Service (LDASS) offer information, advice and where eligible, specialist intervention support.
➡️ If you have concerns that a partner or ex is abusive, you can ask us under Clare’s Law (for yourself or someone else) if there is information that we hold that indicates they may be a risk.
➡️ You can use 'safe spaces', available in pharmacies, where you can find out about your options and the support available.
➡️ The National Domestic Abuse Helpline is always open (including Christmas Day): 0808 2000 247
➡️ We are always open: call us on 101 or 999 if it’s an emergency.

16/12/2025

🧀 Lovers take note over the festive period! 😍

12/12/2025

This week we say a final goodbye to student midwives Jagoda and Zofia! They are right at the end of their degree, soon to be qualified midwives! Today was Jagoda’s last day with us and Sunday is Zofia’s although you might spot her on the labour ward over the next few weeks!

We have enjoyed having them with us on several occasions and have been lucky enough to see them learn and grow. We wish them lots of luck 🍀 and we’re sure you’ll join us in doing the same.

11/12/2025

08/12/2025

When Izzy and Laura’s son, Alo, was seven weeks old, they noticed something wasn’t right.

“As Alo was breathing, he had sucking in of the ribs. I had The Lullaby Trust’s Baby Check app downloaded on my phone, so I opened it.”

Izzy had used the Baby Check app a few times before, so was familiar with it. She answered the questions that the app asked her.

“I went through the questions and the simple checks, which helped me stay calm when I was panicking. I think it was because I knew if something was wrong, the app would tell me.”

“After I completed the checks, the Baby Check app told me to see a health professional. I called 111 and found out exactly what to do. We went to A&E. Alo got the medication he needed and thankfully, since we caught it early, Alo was absolutely fine and we could come straight home.”

The Baby Check app has been downloaded over 375,000 times. That’s 375,000 families who have been able to turn to the app for support when they are worried about their baby’s health.

This week only, all donations to The Lullaby Trust’s Big Give appeal are being doubled while matching funds last, at no extra cost to you. Our vital services like the Baby Check app save lives, but only with your support. You can protect little lives like Alo’s by donating today, where your £10 becomes £20, at no extra cost to you. 🪙

Donate 👉 https://bit.ly/49zZYcE

05/12/2025

04/12/2025

We had a lovely Active Birth Workshop this evening run by Mary and Mandy with help from 3rd year student midwives Jagoda and Zofia. We had a lovely little group and covered lots of information. Keep an eye out for our next one in Feb!