Sara Wickham discusses how our languages focuses more on complication and risk than normality.
The language of the complicated
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Vitamin K: the stories behind the evidence
A quote from Sara Wickham about the ‘stories behind the evidence’ relating to vitamin K.
Bring back the bed bath?
Further thoughts on the third stage
Sara Wickham raises questions about how we measure blood loss during and after the birth of the placenta.
What’s true, pussycat?
What’s in a name?
The Rhombus of Michaelis
The risk-managed birth ball
This is one of my favourite articles that I have written, and I realised this week that it is now 15 years old. I am sharing it again in the hope that others will enjoy it too 🙂 Last month…
Standardisation of Care: a contradiction in terms
Ten things I wish every woman knew about induction of labour: the article
In modern Western culture, most women know about induction of labour before they even become pregnant. They know that it is suggested when it is felt that it would be safer for the baby to be born than to stay…