Sara Wickham explains why advice given by the emergency services to use shoelaces to tie the cord at birth is incorrect and dangerous
Unexpected home birth: let’s keep our shoelaces on…
Tag: birthillogics
Birthillogics # 4 – water and scar pain
The illogical policy that I’d like to share today isn’t necessarily widespread, but I’ve now heard this one three times, from three different areas of the world, so in my book that means it warrants discussion. Midwives and birth folk…
Birthillogics #2 – cutting the oxygen line when it’s needed most…
Sara Wickham asks why it is that, when a newborn needs help, the first thing we do is to cut their existing oxygen supply by clamping and cutting the cord?
Birthillogics #1 – induction for advanced maternal age
Sara Wickham notes the rather illogical nature of the recommendations made for induction of labour in older women, citing the lack of good evidence on this.