Sara Wickham looks at research showing that the sense of smell may be more important at birth than we previously thought…
The importance of BO…
Category: Research Updates
Women’s LMP dates are just as accurate as scans…
Sara Wickham looks at research showing that women’s last menstrual period dates are just as accurate as the date calculated by a ‘dating scan’.
Yay for the M@NGO Trial…
Hooray for the M@NGO Trial! …because it demonstrates that caseload midwifery care can lower caesarean section rates …because it demonstrates this in women of ALL risk (not just low risk) …and because we have never been in more need of…
Rethinking the obesity risk
Research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology shows that women with a high BMI who have previously had at least one baby are less likely to experience obstetric complications during labour and birth than has been…
Most women should be offered midwife-led continuity models of care
A recently updated Cochrane review showed that women who receive continuity of care led by a midwife were less likely to experience regional analgesia less likely to have an episiotomy less likely to have an instrumental birth more likely to…
Pregnancy length varies even more than we thought…
Sara Wickham looks at research showing that pregnancy length varies even more than we thought it did.
More evidence on positive benefits of home birth
Just a quick heads up for anyone who might have missed these two recent studies providing more evidence of the positive benefits of home birth… Firstly, and kindly made freely available by the folks at the British Medical Journal, we…