Sara Wickham offers resources to illuminate and further thinking about risk and birth and how the notion of risk is discussed in pregnancy and birth.
Risk and birth
Tag: home birth
How midwives make a difference when there’s an emergency at home…
How midwives make a difference when there’s an emergency at home. Sara Wickham shares evidence and experience.
Home birth also safer for ‘higher risk’ women
What’s the evidence on so-called high risk home birth? Sara Wickham looks at more evidence which can help answer this question.
NZ COMCORD data adds yet more evidence of home birth safety
Sara Wickham shares more research on NZ home birth safety. Evidence shows home and primary unit settings a safe option for birthing women and their babies
Fathers describe home birth as magical
What do fathers think of home birth? Sara Wickham looks at a research study which set out to answer that question.
And that was that!
Sara Wickham shares an article that she co-authored with her grandmother, sharing her grandmother’s birth stories. And that was that.
Another riff on the latest home birth research…
It doesn’t matter how many insults are thrown at those who choose and support homebirth; research study after research study continues to show that this is a safe and reasonable option. This week, the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health…