Tag: antenatal care

Anti-D information: getting started

Many people visit this website looking for Anti-D information. Anti-D is the name of a medicine made from blood that is offered to rhesus negative women who may have been exposed to rhesus positive blood. It’s known as RhoGAM® in…

Fixed point due dates and wider windows

If Doctor Who turned up in front of you right now and offered you the chance to go elsewhere in time to change, remove or amend one tenet of modern maternity care, what would you choose? Even though I understand…

How are you sleeping?

In your midwifery practice, do you routinely ask women how they’re sleeping?  And if you do, what do you do with that information?

Questioning screening: food for thought

Are you aware that the vast majority of the things that midwives do during antenatal and postnatal checks and when looking after women in labour are actually screening tests? No matter whether we are checking a woman’s blood pressure, urine…