Sara Wickham offers some words of support and advice for the student midwife – aspiring, new or experienced – to take on their journey.
Eight things I’d like to share with midwifery students who care…
Category: Original articles
Eight ways of promoting active birth through bedlessness…
Sara Wickham offers practice suggestions of ways of promoting active birth by moving away from the delivery bed as a place on which to give birth.
How to train your obstetrician – part 2
Sara Wickham continues her article on helping technocratic colleagues to see the value of a woman-centred approach to pregnancy and birth.
How to train your obstetrician – part 1
Sara Wickham looks at the difference between the technocratic and holistic approaches, and how we can help colleagues to be more woman-centred.
The most interesting placenta I’ve seen all year…
Three things I wish every woman knew about pregnancy and birth knowledge
Ask any midwife, doctor or birth worker what three things they wish they could tell all women, and you’ll probably get three statements that tell you as much about the writer’s passion and beliefs as about birth. My list is…
What do you think about Chlorhexidine?
Sara Wickham looks at the issues relating to chlorhexidine and GBS, considering some of the risks of this but also the context in which women turn to it.
Ten things you can do before clamping the umbilical cord…
Inspired by conversations I’ve had with people on my facebook page and elsewhere about research showing that there is no difference in blood gases measured in blood taken before and after clamping the umbilical cord, and in the spirit of…
Cochrane’s aphorism applied to birth and midwifery
What is cervical recoil?
What is cervical recoil, and why is it important? Sara Wickham explains why it can be normal for cervical dilation to go backwards in labour.