Sara Wickham considers women who decline to accept the “high-risk” label.
Category: Articles
The value of leaving the umbilical cord intact
A summary of the advantages of leaving the umbilical cord intact for longer after birth.
The language of the complicated
Sara Wickham discusses how our languages focuses more on complication and risk than normality.
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…