Jo Martin

miss you pops 💔

Only a mom can wake up every 2-3 hrs to feed her baby and continue her day like she got a full night of sleep

Mum of three & five-time Olympic gold cycling medallist @LauraKenny31 meets other new Mums after negative social media comments left her questioning if she should breastfeed her children. She wants there to be more support for those who choose to breastfeed. @BBCBreakfast

No cure for endometriosis. No proper management for menopause. No adequate symptomatic relief for menstrual discomfort. But let’s get handicapped sperm a wheelchair to make not so healthy babies because it would make men feel strong.

Reminding my nervous system that my baby is okay she’s just screaming at the top of her lungs because I set her down to sweep the floor and my 3 year old is just talking non-stop because she’s just a girl and that’s what they do and I am not in fact literally fighting for my life - I’m just a stay at home mom on a Tuesday.

I see “Breastfeeding is free” is doing the rounds again. It isn’t. My argument: 1) First Law of Thermodynamics 2) Marx’s Labour Theory of Value I BF all 3 of my children beyond their 1st birthday. My food, time and labour *all* have a cost. Not Free, not even close.

the anxiety and excitement of being 37 weeks pregnant, thinking your baby could come in 3 hours, 3 days or 3 weeks

While you wait weeks to see a GP, NHS doctors in England are being forced into unemployment; blocked by Government caps that stop them from furthering their training to become specialist Consultants/GPs. This year, there were around 30,000 doctors applying for 10,000 speciality training places. That means thousands of capable doctors ready to serve the public and the NHS are being turned away. Every rejected doctor is a lost opportunity to cut waiting lists, staff wards safely and bring the NHS back from crisis. And @wesstreeting’s response? Just 2,000 extra speciality training places over 3 years. That will not fix the doctor unemployment crisis in England. It will continue to leave patients waiting months for care and will push doctors out of the NHS altogether. This is one of the reasons why NHS resident doctors are going back out on strike. Doctors want to work. Patients want care. It’s the Government that’s standing in the way. #EndTrainingCrisis

Time for facts, not spin The REAL reason why resident doctors are striking: 1) Doctors are UNEMPLOYED 5000 drs applied for just 350 A&E jobs -similar with EVERY specialty Yet they are funding for nurses/physios etc without a medical degree to replace drs in the same role 🧵

Patients face long delays. Meanwhile 1000s of doctors are blocked from training & face unemployment due to Govt restrictions. In 2025, 20,000 more applied than there were posts. Govt’s fix? 1000 extra posts over 3 years. Locking doctors out while the NHS struggles is a scandal.

there’s something magical about cuddles with your toddler whilst feeling your baby wiggle away in your tummy. feeling very blessed 🥰🥹

Physician Associates are being renamed to Physician Assistants because the public was confused about their role. But here’s what’s truly confusing: A physician assistant now starts on a salary that’s nearly £10,000 more than a fully qualified doctor. Read that again. Doctors - who train for years, take on legal responsibility, make life or death decisions; are being paid less than the people assisting them. Even if doctors won full pay restoration tomorrow, they still wouldn’t be on equal footing. @wesstreeting, how on earth is that acceptable? Doctors are leaving. The NHS is haemorrhaging staff. Patients are waiting longer for their appointments because this Government refuses to fix pay and value and retain doctors. Is it any surprise doctors are striking?

it’s too hot to be pregnant

there’s literally no better feeling than those first flutters of your baby moving in your tummy 🥹

@juliaisobela nwpgmd.nhs.uk/sites/default/… Have this on your phone for on calls. Handy reference guide if you get bleeped about something and you’re not sure what to do And download the Accurx switch app!

I just paid for my provisional registration to the GMC Eeeeek only a few months ‘til I start FY1😳 Any good advice for preparing to start/good resources for FY docs? (Especially any advice for working in geris - that’s my 1st job)

@smoph_star Welcome to parenthood where at least one member of your family has some form of illness at any one time!

It’s taken nearly 170 years, but for the first time female doctors make up more than 50% of the UK’s medical register. This is a huge change that should be celebrated. However sexism is still an issue within medicine, with 9% of female doctors reporting unwelcome sexual comments or advances causing embarrassment, distress or offence, compared with 4% of men. The NHS must embrace flexible ways of working, and tackle harassment and sexism head on.

1. Vaccines do not cause autism. 2. Even if they did (THEY DO NOT), autism is not worse than dying of preventable diseases.

fed up of medical staffing thinking, because I am LTFT, that it’s ok to leave it to <6 weeks before rotation to start drafting my rota pattern. not that I have a life to plan or child care to organise or anything #medtwitter

Reports from @FT show 6k+ applicants for just 1700 training posts last year. Doctors are being left in limbo, without posts and unable to progress in their career. In an understaffed NHS this is a scandal. Government must urgently increase training posts. ft.com/content/ddb51e…

Back after time off, as I recovered from #endometriosis surgery. It’ll help but won’t remove all the pain as no one quite knows what causes endo. Sharing to raise awareness - yesterday in parliament a minister said: “women with endometriosis have been failed for far too long”.