29 May 2024
Including a fresh study from our @DeBenemene
about the #ButNotMaternity campaign highlighting harsh maternity restrictions during #lockdown
shorturl.at/0YjPo @CBASS_Research
OUT NOW 27:3 “Freelance Feminisms” co-ed Hannah Curran-Troop, Rosalind Gill @littler_jo
A special issue examining intersecting pressures between precarity, entrepreneurialism, activism and feminism
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🚨New publication by @BrunelSMCJ Dr Sara De Benedictis @DeBenemene
"#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis"
Open access link here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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In “ #ButNotMaternity” @DeBenemene (@BrunelUni) @kaitlynn_mendes (@WesternU ) analyse Instagram posts of reproductive politics during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis (9/14)
#OpenAccess
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18 Jan 2024
This was the last photo we took before I had to be induced on my own in the same way I was induced with my stillborn son.
My husband could go to the pub, but he couldn’t be with me until I was in “active” labour.
#butnotmaternity
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In "#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis", @DeBenemene and @kaitlynn_mendes argue creative campaigns are potential gathering places for resistance. #OA Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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In "#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis", @DeBenemene and @kaitlynn_mendes argue creative campaigns are potential gathering places for resistance. #OA Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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15 Apr 2023
No surprises to me ( not London based) but the inconsistencies in the rules beetween trusts heightened the sense of unfairness & grief.
Here's my story:
*Expecting More*
kathughes.co.uk/expecting-mo… @pbcanofficial
#covidpregnancy #covidbirth #expectingstory #butnotmaternity
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12 Feb 2023
Please can you you share this survey far & wide this is open to mums/birthing people. @MarkWilliamsFMH & I have put together this survey to gain an understanding of fathers/partners mental health from mum/birthing person perspective. #mentalhealth docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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15 Oct 2022
In Nov ‘21 & my partner was sent home three hours after CS. I cried & cried & was told by a nurse it was one rule for everyone no matter their situation. I couldn’t move to care for my baby. It affected me so much more than I realised at the time. #ButnotMaternity
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27 Sep 2022
Our second submission opportunity is for the Mothers whose pregnancy, birth or postpartum were impacted by the pandemic. A chance to tell your story.
#submissionsopen #independentpublisher #independentpress #indiepublishing #motherhood #lockdownbaby #butnotmaternity
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27 Aug 2022
Just look at the Covid maternity restrictions last year when England had ‘opened up’- women left alone, isolated, uncared for while everyone else allowed to gather en masse. Was I being hazed by maternity care when I was left alone on a postnatal ward in Nov 21? #ButNotMaternity
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Il be on Clare FM in the morning to talk about the new home birth restrictions!
Listen in around 9:45
#butnotmaternity
#homebirthireland
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27 Jul 2022
So much preventable trauma. Maternity care let these restrictions take hold. I had a baby in Nov ‘21- partner made to leave 3h after birth. I couldn’t walk/lift her yet I spent 12h alone overnight with her. We’d isolated & both vaxxed. #ButNotMaternity #BirthTrauma #PandemicBaby
27 Jul 2022
These are really sad stories of giving birth alone during the pandemic restrictions. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo… #birthtrauma
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3 Jul 2022
At 36 weeks pregnant I’m higher risk but not eligible for 4th booster. If I get it, I’ll need 10 days of painful blood thinner injections to prevent blood clot in placenta/ stillbirth. If my partner gets it, he’ll be allowed in the pub but not the maternity unit😡#butnotmaternity
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23 Jun 2022
Let’s take some of the #tokophobia themes identified by Slade et al (2019)-
1) fear of being abandoned/alone- a very valid fear esp during the pandemic when women were forced to be alone during some of the most challenging & traumatic #maternity experiences. 🧵 #Butnotmaternity
22 Jun 2022
‘Tokophobia is a marker for many other perinatal MH problems’ important point made by @calimarshall at todays #tokophobia_2022 event. Reiterating the importance of early identification, interventions & partnership pathways to ensure best outcomes 👏
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25 May 2022
I went through most of labour solo during lockdown and had to stay in hospital for a further 5 nights with minimal visits from my husband. And our maternity restrictions were considered relatively 'good'.
"Sorry" doesn't quite cut it....
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25 May 2022
"He's only sorry he got caught"
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says PM "didn't care when he partied during lockdown, when people couldn't see their dying loved ones"
Boris Johnson says he and staff "cared passionately" and "protected this country from Covid"
bbc.in/3wQhV1s
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25 May 2022
When @BorisJohnson says "it's time to move on" but you can't because you've been left traumatised from giving birth alone while our government were having office parties. The stories I've been gathering for this podcast say it all... #butnotmaternity
anchor.fm/lockdown-babies/ep…
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25 May 2022
It seems fitting that this podcast has come out on the same day as #SueGray publishes her report. When so many women, including me, were alone in hospital having their babies, the Government was drinking together. I feel hot with rage at the very thought of it.
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25 May 2022
I was really proud to speak to @philly_guillou about how my life was turned upside down after having G in the pandemic - and how I catapulted from music sector @ISM_music to birth sector @birthrightsorg as a result.
With a trigger warning for discussion re PTSD & traumatic birth
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23 May 2022
Not to mention the @Butnotmaternity campaign, whose 672,000 supporters campaigned relentlessly to allow partners to join them at hospital appointments and in labour.
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