A recent paper published in Obstetrics and Gynecology (whose abstract is featured below) has analysed the cost effectiveness of noninvasive RhD typing with cell-free fetal DNA and concluded that this does not offer any significant cost benefit. In other words,…
Category: Research Updates
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…
Research published in Human Reproduction this week has added further insight around so-called post-term pregnancy by showing that variability around pregnancy length is even greater than has previously been thought. The findings also add weight to the idea that, on…
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…