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• • Smoking
  • Pregnancy
  • Midwives

Supporting

Guest blog: New tools to help you support smokefree pregnancies

By Viv Bennett, Chief Nurse and Director Maternity and Early Years, PHE on 26 June 2019 As midwives are well aware, stopping smoking is one of the best things a woman and her partner can do to protect the health of their baby through pregnancy and beyond. But you may not be aware that in recent years the percentage of women recorded ...

RCM Opinion

• • Smoking

Supporting

Smokefree

By Clare Livingstone on 31 May 2019 As midwives caring for women we have all listened to these sheepish confessions: ‘I know it’s bad… but I only smoke one or two in the evening… once the kids are in bed… it really is one of life’s few pleasures… something just for me….’.

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• • Research
  • Midwives Magazine
  • Smoking

Influencing

Secondhand smoke exposure during pregnancy in developing countries

on 23 November 2018 Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy poses serious but avoidable risk to fetal development leading to stillbirth, congenital malformations and low birthweight.

RCM Opinion

• • Smoking

Influencing

Tackling action on smoking this Stoptober

By Jane Scattergood Midwifery Adviser at Public Health England on 02 October 2018 Public Health England (PHE)’s annual Stoptober campaign is under way, providing a great opportunity for midwives to have important conversations with mothers-to-be about smoking, the risks and how they can increase their chances of quitting ...

RCM Opinion

• • Smoking

Supporting

New Public Health England resource to support conversations around smoking in pregnancy

By Professor Viv Bennett CBE, Chief Nurse, Public Health England on 27 July 2018 As midwives are well aware, stopping smoking is one of the best things a woman and her partner can do to protect the health of their baby through pregnancy and beyond. However, you may not be aware that in recent years the percentage of women recorded ...