A study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica might be helpful to women who are frustrated by the discrepancy between their own due date (as calculated by the date of their last period) and that calculated through ultrasound scanning.…
Cassie, who has given me permission to tell her story and who chose her own pseudonym, became pregnant via IVF. She was thus one of those women who know the exact date when they conceived, and she and her midwife…
It’s happened again! My reading pile has got so big that I’ll never catch up if I try to share everything that has caught my eye in individual blog posts, so I’m having a clear out and sharing a bumper…
Would you like to increase your knowledge AND build your confidence in discussing the evidence around post-term pregnancy? Because I am really happy to announce that my post-term pregnancy online course has been tested and was found by my…
Here’s an interesting article and some food for thought. An Australian study – which was published in BMC Pregancy and Childbirth and is thus freely available if you’d like to read it in full for yourself – explored midwives’ experiences…
A few weeks ago, a study was published in the British Medical Journal. It looked at overdetection in cancer screening; asking people whether they find overdetection acceptable and to what degree. Taking their findings into account, the authors concluded that,…
The UK press has again jumped on the findings of a research study and translated it into a headline without taking full account of the detail or considering the wider picture for women, and this time the subject is the…
On my facebook page, Didi asked: Hi Sara do you have any evidence around when women can start Yoga in pregnancy if they haven’t practiced before pregnancy? The only information I can find is on the RCOG and RCM sites…
Researchers have looked at women’s experiences of two different self-assessment methods for monitoring fetal movements in full-term pregnancy and, although the study was relatively small, it would appear that more of the Swedish women who participated, having tried both methods,…
Is a ‘stretch and sweep’ a useful low-tech intervention which might prevent the need for induction of labour, or an unnecessary interference in pregnancy? A “marvellously effective way of preventing the need for medical induction of labour for post-dates ……