43. #WildObs Part 2 - Christmas Special, 2022

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

As we hit the festive season, join me and my 'magic mate', Florence Wilcock, as we reflect on 2022 and have a little fun.
Florence is a consultant obstetrician, a great friend and my co-founder of #MatExp. We chat about some of our key advent-ures in 2022, building on the #WildObs podcast we recorded at the end of 2021.

Florence hosts the informative and engaging The Obs Pod podcast, talking about all things maternity from the perspective of a person-centred obstetrician. It has something for everyone.

We are looking forward to 2023, particularly working on the new digital Family Integrated Care project, helping neonatal teams understand the experience of parents with a baby on a neonatal unit. This #QExchange project builds directly on ‘Nobody’s Patient’, which Florence masterminded.

It is wonderful to have people like Florence, Lyse Edwards and Mary Salama on board who really get the Whose Shoes approach and will bring creativity and humanity to ensure that it is a really engaging facilitation tool. Watch this space.
Lemon lightbulbs 🍋🍋🍋

• Take time to reflect on what has been achieved before tackling the next challenge
• Have fun! Your childhood only expires if you let it
• Lemon lightbulbs and poetry aid coproduction
• If you want to share good stuff online, you need a single click!
• Ripples build over time – don’t get despondent if things seem slow
• The Fête du Citron in Menton is awesome! Go if you can!
• #IntentionalCoffee helps build networks
• 'End of year' spending sprees may not get the best outcomes
• Ripples continue from Rosie Murphy's innovative ‘BAME’ Whose Shoes work in Croydon
• ... and from our pan-London events around maternity triage and ‘handover’
• The ‘black maternity experience’ report MATTERS
• Miles Sibley is one to watch! 😊 –Uncorking the bottle around evidence
• Outdoors is great for maternal mental health events!
• Be creative – find a way to do something that at first seems impossible
• Support paramedics to be confident in responding to maternity and neonatal emergencies
• The power of a blank sheet of paper!
• Being present at your grandson’s birth is VERY special!
• Look out for FAB Ted NHS talks by Florence Wilcock, Yvonne Newbold and more
• We'll always remember being together in Oxford when the Queen died
• The ripples continue from our Oxford event – including mutual learning with Kingston
• Our podcasts are creating strong connections around the world
• Lots to learn about inequalities and difference by talking to passionate people in other countries
• Read Benjamin Black's book ‘Belly Woman’
• Thank you for our our Mama Academy Awards!
• You can do something quite small - and it can amplify and become huge
• To embrace innovation and collaboration, funding models must be more innovative
• Rudolf was elf-taught!

Thank you for listening throughout 2022 - see you next year!
Here’s to a fun (and, in the best possible way, disruptive) 2023.

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Chapters

1. 43. #WildObs Part 2 - Christmas Special, 2022 (00:00:00)

2. Expect the unexpected – Christmas sound effects! (00:01:02)

3. It’s good to take time to reflect (00:01:57)

4. January: celebrating the skills of Anna Geyer, our amazing, graphic artist (00:02:20)

5. We shone a lemon lightbulb on coproduction with NHS England – or was that the poetry event? The one in the tent. (00:03:12)

6. The Trevor test. Accessing, with a single click, is best. (00:04:47)

7. The #FICare ripples begin in January! And will be a key theme for 2023 (00:05:39)

8. Flo and Gill reminisce about their zesty adventures at the Fête du Citron in Menton, France (00:07:22)

9. #IntentionalCoffee - and using a bit of creativity to build extraordinary networks (00:09:48)

10. Money, money, money - it must be March! And shoe-horning ideas into funding bids (00:11:30)

11. The #QExchange Family Integrated Care project directly builds on ‘Nobody’s Patient’ (00:14:53)

12. April – and a massive shoutout to Rosie Murphy and the innovative Whose Shoes work she led in Croydon around supporting women from ‘BAME’ communities in maternity (00:15:52)

13. The ripples continue … And Flo talks about other developments and learning around supporting women from Black and ethnic minority communities (00:18:15)

14. Miles Sibley – one to watch – one of the key new contacts in 2022. Uncorking the bottle. Taking the postcode lottery out of evidence. (00:22:29)

15. May: “I regret to inform you that your childhood has expired” - a bit harsh?! 😂 (00:24:56)

16. Maternal mental health week – Flo’s podcast with Maria, Mothers for Mothers, and a wonderful garden at Chelsea Flower Show (00:25:45)

17. Leanne Howlett’s fabulous perinatal mental health, outdoor festival (00:27:26)

18. Gill runs a Whose Shoes virtual Whose Shoes session for LSBU … from a car park in Devon (00:28:37)

19. June. Flo went off on a very long walk. Gill got stuck into virtual events – firstly maternity triage (00:29:48)

20. There is a long way to go in supporting paramedics to be confident in responding to maternity and neonatal emergencies (00:32:51)

21. Sunita Sharma, our #FabObs postnatal guru. The power of a blank sheet of paper! (00:34:36)

22. And then the virtual Whose Shoes workshop exploring handover from the community midwife to the health visitor. What a can of worms! (00:36:30)

23. July: a very special month indeed. Gill’s youngest grandson is born … and she is there at the birth. The ultimate #GrannyExp!! 😍 (00:38:45)

24. August: Flo becomes a Ted NHS speaker - video being published soon, and it is certainly worth the wait! Gill was honoured to be there in person (00:40:27)

25. Our friend, Yvonne Newbold was a speaker too! With a little bit of singing (00:44:46)

26. September: We were having fun in Oxford, preparing for our maternity workshop, when the Queen died. It was all rather surreal. (00:46:11)

27. The ripples continue from the Oxford event. Florence has linked with the maternity team there to compare notes and share learning (00:50:51)

28. Sorry! (Gill upsets Poppy, Flo’s dog, with musical sound effects that apparently (if you are a dog) sound like a cat 😱) (00:51:32)

29. October: a Whose Shoes event with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT around baby loss, as part of Baby Loss Awareness week (00:52:02)

30. November: our podcasts are creating ripples around the world and connecting us with some extraordinary people. Including Yordanka, a wonderful midwife in Alice Springs (00:55:28)

31. So much to learn about inequalities and difference and different challenges by talking to passionate people in other localities and cultures (00:56:18)

32. The global gathering of kindness began in Melbourne, Australia (00:57:50)

33. Benjamin Black and his new book ‘Belly Woman’ – check out the podcast episode that Flo recorded with this extraordinary obstetrician who worked in Sierra Leone in the Ebola pandemic (00:58:58)

34. The podcasts are turning into two ways communications, with people contacting us to build the conversations and make good stuff happen (01:00:28)

35. The Family Integrated Care app we are developing is highly collaborative. Finding people who are passionate about each aspect (01:01:22)

36. December! Can you hear the Sleigh Bells? 😉 (01:02:24)

37. Our Mama Academy Awards - how special is that! Thank you! And thank you Pauline Woods for nominating us! (01:02:28)

38. A key message. You can do something quite small. But the amplification of it can be huge. And it is happening through #MatExp! (01:05:32)

39. Looking ahead to 2023. Full steam ahead for our Family Integrated Care project. Join us! (01:06:20)

40. If people are to embrace innovation, they need to be more innovative in funding models and finding ways to encourage true collaboration (01:07:22)

41. Crackers! And reminiscing on our #MatExp-adventures over the years (01:08:22)

42. It’s a RAP. Happy Christmas everyone, and here’s to a fun (and, in the best possible way, disruptive) New Year 🍋🍋🍋 (01:09:38)