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PRACTICAL demonstrations of the benefits of some of the latest advancements in antenatal education and neonatal care will form part of International Day of the Midwife celebrations in the regional maternity hospital this Thursday. University Maternity Hospital Limerick is issuing commemorative birth certificates to the mums of all babies born in UMHL on May 5 to mark the day which celebrates a century of continual progress in maternal and child care through quality midwifery. The day is acelebration which has the theme of ‘100 Years Of Progress’, and also encourages all members of the global community of midwives to advocate for investment in quality midwifery care around the world, improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the process. Midwives from UMHL will also be participating in the National Midwifery Conference, ‘Coming Together to Showcase and Celebrate’, which is hosted by the National Women & Infant Health Programme and Office of Nurse & Midwifery Service Directorate. The national …

The celebration of International Day of the Midwife at University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) focused on how local midwives have risen to the extraordinary challenge of Covid-19 to provide safe care to the women and infants of the Mid-West. The event—with its 2020 theme of ‘Midwives with Women: Celebrate, Demonstrate, Mobilise, Unite—Our Time Is Now’— underlined how midwives in the Mid-West along with their colleagues across the country and around the world have undergone upskilling and retraining to developed safe pathways of care in the fight to protect women and babies during the pandemic. While maternity care in the Mid-West has faced unprecedented challenges, and there will be none of the celebratory events traditionally held to mark the occasion, the International Day of the Midwife served as a prominent reminder of the importance of midwifery, and the invaluable care that midwives provide. Special birth certificates were given to the mothers of all babies born in University Maternity Hospital Limerick on …