Consultant Midwife and clinical midwifery research led Emma Mills will give a short talk about her career and her books ‘Your Birth: stories from midwifery led areas’ and ‘Your Birth: stories from Consultant led areas’ (jointly written with colleague Louise Taylor). This will be followed by a practical session with pointers on writing your own birth story and the benefits of doing so. Attendees will leave with ideas and inspiration to continue their story.
Emma Mills is an experienced midwife with a passion for promoting and protecting physiological birth. She writes for Welsh government publications and has had numerous articles published in a variety of professional journals. Emma is a founding trustee for the charity/non-profit organisation ‘Midwives @Ethiopia’ and has been delivering skills, training and research in Ethiopia for the last twelve years. She is on many advisory panels and steering groups and has won a multitude of awards for her contribution to midwifery. Emma has recently presented her published research all over the UK, Poland, Canada, and is due to present a symposium in Bali in 2020.
‘Your Birth’ is a collection of birth stories written by women, about women, for women. A positive birth environment, kind and compassionate support, and access to balanced evidence based information enables women to take control of their births. The intention of the book is to redress the balance of negative media around birth and give women the confidence to believe in their bodies, to feel positive as they approach birth and to consider a midwifery led setting as an option. All stories are written in women’s own words.