Can balloon catheters cause cord prolapse? Sara Wickham looks at a study which investigated this.
Can balloon catheters cause cord prolapse?
Category: Research Updates
Home birth also safer for ‘higher risk’ women
What’s the evidence on so-called high risk home birth? Sara Wickham looks at more evidence which can help answer this question.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing
Now available! Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care.
NZ COMCORD data adds yet more evidence of home birth safety
Sara Wickham shares more research on NZ home birth safety. Evidence shows home and primary unit settings a safe option for birthing women and their babies
Fathers describe home birth as magical
What do fathers think of home birth? Sara Wickham looks at a research study which set out to answer that question.
Evidence for the knee-jerk effect in maternity care
Sara Wickham looks at the knee-jerk effect in maternity care. When one or two adverse outcomes lead to sweeping policy changes, often with no evidence.
Birth Centres work in Australia too!
Women who plan to birth at Australian birth centres significantly more likely to have spontaneous vaginal birth and less likely to have a caesarean.
Trying to identify small babies during pregnancy may do more harm than good…
The authors of a research study carried out in France have echoed existing concerns that trying to identify small babies during pregnancy may do more harm than good. In a freely available paper published in the BJOG, Monier et al…
Putting paradigms into perspective…
Women’s experiences of monitoring fetal movements…
Research exploring the mindfetalness approach to monitoring a baby’s movements, and women’s experiences of using this approch.