Your summer midwifery update is here!

Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a difference for working parents #WBFW2023

The theme of this year's World Breastfeeding Week is "Enabling breastfeeding: Making a difference for working parents.”

This week presents an excellent opportunity not only to recall the benefits of breastfeeding for the child and the mother, but also to demonstrate the positive impact it has on the family, the workplace and the whole community when all the necessary steps are taken to ensure that the mother can breastfeed her child with no difficulties, even after maternity leave.

Join the Midwifery Educator Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series

Calling all midwifery educators, regulators, and stakeholders!

We are excited to announce the Midwifery Educator Knowledge Exchange, a series of webinars designed for midwifery educators, regulators, and key stakeholders. Hosted by partners from the Alliance to Improve Midwifery Education (AIME), this series aims to facilitate cross-country learning and exchange of best practices in strengthening midwifery education.

Mark your calendars with the next session on August 15th!

Did you miss the first session? The recording of the first webinar session is already available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

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Young Midwife Leader (YML) from Cameroon represents ICM at the Women Deliver 2023 Conference in Kigali, Rwanda

Ashu Martha is doing remarkable work in her country with her YML project, which aims to reduce the drop-out rate of midwives in her community. So, it was with great enthusiasm that she agreed to take part as a plenary speaker at the Women Deliver Conference, which was titled “A strong Health Workforce for Women: Accountability for Commitments.” Ashu Martha seized the opportunity to talk in great depth about her project, describe the daily situation of midwives in Cameroon, and propose various solutions to address the problems.

In case you missed it: conversations on intersex bodily autonomy in midwifery care

For the Pride Month edition of our Pass the Mic series, we uplifted the experiences of the “I” in LGBTQIA+: the intersex community. We sat down with three intersex advocates from across the world to discuss the crucial role midwives can play in ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of intersex people.?

Our speakers—Obioma Chukwuike (they/them), an intersex activist and Founder and Executive Director of Intersex Nigeria; Sean Saifa Wall (he/him), a Black queer intersex activist, rising scholar, and co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project; and Mani Bruce Mitchell (they/them), an intersex educator, mental health professional, and change agent in New Zealand—illuminated the ways in which midwives can support the bodily autonomy of intersex people.

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Congress recordings are available now!

Congress recordings are available now on the Congress platform. For those who attended the event, you can watch the recordings of ICM Congress 2023. The virtual content will be available until 15 October 2023. The Congress platform is accessible also from the website homepage.

Access to the Congress platform (on-demand sessions) is for registered delegates only.

Delegates are not authorised to share the platform access details with other persons.

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