womens health — Drawn to Medicine

Selection of illustrations exploring the concept of motherhood:

Maternal Journal is an award-winning global community movement that uses creative journaling to boost wellbeing in pregnancy, birth and parenthood. Their free journaling resources and guided exercises introduce different creative styles and techniques to help you get started.

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The Breech Birth Network is an international network of health professionals (midwives and doctors) who are sharing skills and experience to advance the practice of modern breech birth. I was hired to attend training days for midwives, and draw a number of manoeuvres and mechanisms relevant to the presentation and birth of vaginal breech babies. Copyright of illustrations: Breech Birth Network

Merlin worked in conjunction with The Royal College of Midwives on numerous projects over the last 5 years, ranging from illustrating training documents for front-line midwives and obstetricians, to designing innovative interactive patient pathways and posters.

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Selection of illustration work taken from Royal College of Midwives publication, 'Can continuity work for us?' A resource for Midwives. Copyright: RCM

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Series of illustrations created to support the training of UK Student Midwives. Visuals to feed into revision cards that are portable and fit inside scrub pockets.

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Illustrations created for ITF (International Transport Federation) exploring occupational segregation, gender based violence and issues around access to toilet facilities for transport workers internationally, under the international project 'Our Right To Flush'.

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Selection of illustrations that fed into whiteboard animation for ITF Womens’ Department on occupational segregation and gender based violence in the Transport industry.