Danielle Jacob

Great work from the NIHR stillbirth and neonatal death units CEI leads - creating a poster on what is dissemination #IWD2025 @DameTina1 @LamrnStillbirth @NIHRresearch

Great talk on midwives' experience of providing bereavement care by fellow collegue @DanielleJacob91 Really interesting discussion around the challenges midwives face in low income countries. #midwives #WalesandSW2024

2 days to go until the Wales and South West England Festival 🥳 Come along to get up to speed and refresh your skills through our exciting and topical mix of policy and research presentations and clinical workshops.

Unfortunately unqualified people who give bad advice can’t be held accountable when things go wrong. Rise of the doula: a helping hand or a danger to mothers? thetimes.com/article/b16bda…

Successful meeting with the International Advisory Board this week! It was a great opportunity to share findings of ongoing projects including #CoreOutcomeset study, #Bereavement and #PANDA trials! Lot's of learning from the IAB! @NIHRglobal @DameTina1 @Yanarichens @LSTMnews

Listen To Mums; Addressing the Global Imperative for Maternity Healthcare Reform During the recent @MilkenInstitute Philanthropic Investors Forum held in Beverly Hills, I was requested to share my personal experience of childbirth in 1991, and its effect on missioning the @WellbeingAfrica's approach to knowledge acquisition, learning, and development in challenging, overcoming and rising from the adversity of birth trauma. As the week encompassed the annual celebrations of #InternationalDayOfTheMidwife and #NursesDay, I also met with the Baby Blues: The Early Days of the Motherhood Journey Roundtable Conversation at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2024 USA Focus Group, to deliberate how the beginning of motherhood is often painted with the expectations of rosy hues, but in reality, and increasingly recorded around globally, the antenatal, perinatal and postpartum period can involve significant identity transformation, physical and emotional difficulties, and even birth injuries, that persist far into the first year and 1000 days. Having collaborated with global efforts such as the #MHTF, Every Women Every Child #EWEC, #ENAP and #PMNCH for over 20 years towards safe motherhood, I am particularly alarmed and appalled by the rising data which finds that Black women in the USA and UK are five times, and Asian women two times, more likely to die in the perinatal period than white women. Heartfully, I endorse the All Party Parliamentary Group #APPG call for a full maternity care overhaul and reform, as based on the UK Birth Trauma Report released today. This includes the expansion of resources such as midwifery and nursing personnel, as according to the @UNFPA State of the World’s Midwifery Report, midwives can meet about 90% of the need for essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health interventions. We must continue to recruit, remunerate, regulate, replenish and resource midwifery and nursing services, which is a universal requirement in improving and increasing the availability and quality of maternity care, counsel and birth equity support. Read my full thoughts using the link below: toyinsaraki.org/blog/addressin… #MaternalMonday #WellbeingForAll

Day 2 @ the RCM coference🥰🥰🥰 Energising excellence #rcmconf24

That was all about #rcmconf24 TOGETHER we celebrated success of the work of all midwives.. And it was a Proud moment for me to be a student of @DameTina1 who is really a true leader and inspiration for all midwives across the world! Great to have a cheerful mentor @Yanarichens !

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @MidwivesRCM members gather for Day 1 RCM conference #rcmconf24

Sustainable Midwifery: Caring for Tomorrow’s World On the 32nd International Day of the Midwife, I am truly honoured to join highly esteemed Professor @DunkleyBent, @IbuRobin Lim, and Ginger Garcia, in delivering keynote addresses to the Virtual International Day of the Midwife @VIDofM, a 24-hour Conference focusing on midwifery as a vital solution in adapting health systems to combat climate change, as midwives and their practice deliver safe and environmentally sustainable health services and are first responders when climate disasters hit. The @WellbeingAfrica Foundation #Midwives promote and advocate the standards and frameworks of the International Confederation of Midwives @World_Midwives in our mission as continuous providers of safe, quality and ecologically sound health and wellbeing services, especially in the face of the climate crisis, which carries specific threats for women and girls, as hotter temperatures can lead to pregnancy complications and worsen maternal-health issues including premature births. Midwives are instrumental in ensuring that health services are more mobile and can urgently reach women, yet a global shortage of nearly one million midwives and a lack of international commitment to invest limits their capacity, while further reinforcing the latest data that every two minutes a woman or girl dies during pregnancy, childbirth or its aftermath. By replenishing and ramping up investing in midwifery education, training and services, and scaling midwifery-delivered care, we aim to contribute to saving 4.3M women and newborns annually by 2035, and to the Global Midwifery Acceleration Roadmap, jointly developed by @UNFPA, @UNICEF, @WHO, #ICM and global partners, to be launched at the @WorldHealthSmt. Midwives are the providers of culturally sensitive health care, as leaders in their communities, and emergency responders, representing the single-most effective way to achieve safe motherhood and avoid preventable maternal deaths. Today I celebrate the courage and value of midwives globally, and wish everyone a Happy #IDM2024! #MidwivesSaveLives #MidwivesMatter #SafeMotherhood #MidwivesAndClimate #InternationalDayoftheMidwife

We thank @drtedros, DG @who, for his profound message on #IDM2024, celebrating midwives everywhere! 🌟 “Thank you all for your commitment to harnessing the power of midwives to protect the health and wellbeing of people and the planet as a vital climate solution.”

📣📣🎉 I am so excited to announce that my PhD literature review on women's perspectives of #freebirth is now available in @MidwiferyJnl A thought-provoking paper where we propose a new defintion of freebirth as a self-care practice sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fascinating discussion on maternal & newborn health at yesterday's #LSTMConversation! Hear experts like Dame @DameTina1 & @Yanarichens OBE discuss critical issues. Watch the recording now: lstm.ac/3US6SlX #MaternalHealth #NewbornHealth #IDM2024

This is our multicultural O&G department, with many IMGs making us all the richer for their personal & professional lived experiences. A fabulous evening out, with so much laughing & happiness. What an NHs family ⁦@BetsiCadwaladr⁩. Welcome to Wales - happy St David’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What an incredible few days gaining experience in Global Health in Zimbabwe. I have learnt so much, met amazing people and given a presentation! I am so grateful for this opportunity and really appreciate all the support given @DameTina1 #midwife

Had a lovely day at graduation yesterday. MSc in Global Health @LSTMnews @BCUHBBest #Midwife

Graduating with a distinction on MSc Global Health at LSTM and now this!! All the hard work was worth it!!!

241 women died in the UK during pregnancy or up to 6 weeks after the end of pregnancy in 2019-2021 from causes related to or exacerbated by pregnancy among 2,066,997 women giving birth, a maternal mortality rate of 11.7 per 100,000 buff.ly/2HR30eT