Researchers in the UK have taken the next step towards the introduction of a test which could help identify the rhesus negative pregnant women who are carrying a rhesus negative baby. These women would then not even need to consider…
Sara Wickham looks at another research paper which has questioned the value of fetal monitoring in labour.
Women who booked their care at the Barkantine Birth Centre had better outcomes and rated their care more highly than women who booked at the hospital.
Sara Wickham looks at two new research studies on the subject of fetal monitoring in labour, both of which raise questions about current practice.
Sara Wickham looks at research exploring the importance of immediate or early skin-to-skin after caesarean.
Sara Wickham considers the latest review on Group B Strep in pregnancy and raises questions about the continuing gulf between evidence and practice.
Sara Wickham discusses research showing that only 9-12% of RCOG Green-Top guidelines are based on best quality evidence.
Sara Wickham looks at research which further confirms the value of skin-to-skin care (SSC) and argues that this should be “aggressively promoted”.
Could maternal body slope be key to protecting babies? Sara Wickham shares research and thinking from biological nurturing expert Suzanne Colson.
Do we really need to hold newborn babies at the level of the placenta so that gravity can assist transfusion? No, according to new research.