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Caption: Why being prickly & uncomfortable can be positive 6
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Caption: Sometimes to make something good happen you have to take a risk , put yourself out there & see what happens.
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Caption: It can make you feel quite vulnerable
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Caption: But it could be just what was needed to make sparks fly 💥
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Caption: So remember yesterday's question:
What current midwifery practice will seem wrong or odd to future generations ?
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Caption: At the Kingston workshop the answer was Lithotomy ......
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Caption: For this reason I decided to do a #lithotomy challenge for #NHSChangeday
Caption: Well, it would at least make people talk & think if nothing else 😳‼️
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Caption: No one was more surprised than me by the first person to take up my challenge! Thanks to @jimgthornton for kicking off ahead of NHSChangeday 👏🏼
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Caption: My own experience became a little more public with @HelenBevan & a 📽film crew pitching up!
Caption: But I learnt a lot from it & was inspired to write a blog about my experience for Mother's Day which you can read here.....
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Caption: "Use this to click to blog
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Caption: So did it achieve anything ? Well I know people in at least 10 other NHS organisations took part that week & others have followed since.
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Caption: This is just one of the 'difficult' conversations we have tried to have this year in #MatExp.
If we go for those disagreements & have honest frank but respectful discussions then this is where we believe we will push thinking & get change that will be of most benefit.
There is little value in always agreeing and patting one another on the back.
Caption: It sparked to other countries not just UK ..., & I am still being asked about it 9 months later.....
If it changes attitudes & ignites a conversation promoting women centred thinking in each place where someone took part then the impact will have been worth it.
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Caption: In 2017 the challenge is still going strong
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Caption: Sarah fabobs followed suit & wrote about it here
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Caption: In Derby fab Katherine started a new #theatrechallenge
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Caption: You can watch a film here
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Caption: They came up with a simple idea writing our names on theatre hats making theatre a less scary environment
Caption: So could you undertake the #lithotomy challenge or ....
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Caption: What would be an equivalent idea outside your own comfort zone ? #MatExpAdvent -ures