Tag: pregnancy

Knowing the way…

“Today a pregnant womyn who wants a loving presence, no interventions, and a sense of excitement and joy for the upcoming mystery has to birth against a modern current of pressure bigger than a tsunami: a force that finds its…

Babies born to women who have diabetes are known to have a higher chance of experiencing hypoglycaemia (or low blood sugar). They are more likely to be admitted to a special care baby unit and there is a lower chance…

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…