It's nice to know that even now

Have they come up with a word to replace "maternity" yet?

I've seen them try.

I did a required online fetal wellbeing course recently (I'm a midwife) full of "birthing person" etc. The most egregious example was one of the options to a multiple choice question that referred to "fetal sleep or person sleep". I had to re-read it and initially had no clue what they were on about. Then I realised they had used "person sleep" as a stand-in for "maternal sleep".

I let rip about that one in the feedback section. Unbelievable that they would use such convoluted and non-sensical language when we know that communication issues are a huge factor in unsafe care and poor outcomes.

It literally conjures up the mental image of my vagina performing a function first, and my human existence second.
The focus is entirely upon the bodily process, not the woman with a name, personality and life.

That reminds me a some of my old school Nursing Tutors Barracker, who had no issues handing out major bollockings for anyone careless enough to refer to the "diabetic" in bed three.

Women. Know thy place.

Yep: digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/shielded-patient-list

'People who are pregnant'

FFS

Birthing people makes no sense at all. Much as I love the NHS, their painful capitulation to the wokerati makes me incandescent. It puts lives at risk.

What about women who are struggling to read this information in their second language. This is just going to confuse them, it’s confusing enough in English.

Are there any translations of it? What does it say in other languages?

"Birthing people" ???

ummm, don't they mean "women"

FFS

'Birthing partner' - partner who helps with the birthing.

Therefore
'Birthing people' - people who help with the birthing, ie midwives, doctors etc.

Why do they want to discharge midwives and doctors straight home from the delivery suite? It doesn't make sense.

But then not much of the trans-pandering language makes sense.

Really?

Even the bloody shielding list talks about pregnant people with congenital heart defects

Tbh I don't think it's really about transmen.

It's about connecting the words female, woman etc to female biology. And the objection to that is from another group.

What's possibly most galling about this is the surely TINY fraction of "transmen" who actually get pregnant and give birth. I don't have any figures to hand (if they even exist) but surely it's vanishingly rare. And yet language is being changed to suit them.

I have friends for whom English is a second language, and they wouldn't know what is meant by "birthing people".

Any breeding stock whose biological birthing process commences will be supported by a gestationary expulsion practitioner.

What is the government advice to potentially birthing people to follow when their biological mechanisms commence the process.

Birthing people would be shortened to birthers maybe aka breeders.

Just saw this on a local health and exercise promotion body’s website (gmmoving.co.uk/blog/ways-to-keep-moving):

“MumFit is a pre and postnatal fitness service that is moving classes online to help keep pregnant people and new parents moving.”

It drives me fecking crazy! The organisation posting this seems to have a totally female management team by the way (own worst enemy situation???).

However, the person running the actual classes for pregnant women is clearly much more sensible. On her site - www.mumfit.net/ - she writes:

“ MumFit offers a friendly, professional pre and postnatal fitness service to mums and mums to be.”

“ MumFit offers specialised personal training for new or expectant mothers on either a 1-to-1 or small group basis.”

“The female body goes through enormous changes during pregnancy and it can be both an exciting yet anxious time.”

Perhaps some of you might want to contact Mumfit and tell her that her services are being advertised for “pregnant people”?

'Birthing people?' There are any number of ways to interpret this clunky, baffling phrase. But the one thing it certainly does not suggest is pregnant women. More woke BS.

In fairness a HCP was being interviewed on the television and she referred to ‘the covids’. Made my blood boil.

What are other admissions to hospital called?

• Fracturing People
• Cancering People
• Coronarying People

Oh I just can’t
That’s barely interpretable & English is my first (Only!) language.

It's such an ugly phrase, apart from anything else.

"I am a pregnant woman"
"I am a woman in labour"
vs
"I am a birthing person"

It literally conjures up the mental image of my vagina performing a function first, and my human existence second.
The focus is entirely upon the bodily process, not the woman with a name, personality and life.

It's the polar opposite to 'woman centred care'

It's functional vagina and uterus attached to a nondescript human animal care.

Given that some people (with a penis and without), say that ‘we are pregnant’, is it not possible that some people will assume that ‘birthing people’ means the couple rather than the mother?

Have they come up with a word to replace "maternity" yet?

Very remiss of them. They clearly don't know their Latin roots.

"Birthing People Voices" should do the trick...by making it fully incomprehensible to everybody.

I would have definitely assumed “birthing people” were the gang involved in the delivery - midwives/doctors/sundry other medical professionals.
They’ve managed to release a set of childbirth guidance without mentioning the word mother??!

I thought it meant partners as well. What is a birthing people.

Is that women ?

Why the shite. Just write the word women. It’s not a disgraceful word

Thing is birth as a word directly refers to a female body thing so how long before that goes.

I had to read it several times for it to make sense. When I read birthing people my brain filled in birthing partners. Yep, great for health information literacy.

Have they come up with a word to replace "maternity" yet?