A Cochrane review has confirmed that some research results are more likely to get published than others, which is one reason why evidence may not be as reliable as some people think.
Research shows that midwifery care in pregnancy reduces the chance of small and low birthweight babies as well as of preterm birth.
Sara Wickham highlights a research study showing the transformative benefits of physiological birth.
Sara Wickham looks at research showing the gap between what women need and want and the reality of what they experience when undergoing induction of labour.
A systematic review has concluded that induction prior to post-term is associated with few beneficial outcomes and several adverse outcomes.
A senior midwife has shared her thoughts on a study looking into the work, health and emotional lives of midwives in the UK which does not appear to have been publicised by the organisation that commissioned it, the Royal College of Midwives.
It was so good to see a paper in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology this month calling for better definitions of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Borovac-Pinheiro et al (2018) write that, “The current definition of [postpartum haemorrhage] is inadequate…
A review of trials comparing induction of labour with expectant management has concluded that evidence is lacking for the recommendation to induce labour at 41 weeks instead of 42 weeks for the improvement of perinatal outcome.
Sara Wickham writes about an important study published in Birth which further illustrates the disrespectful care and abuse that some women experience during childbirth.
