Sara Wickham looks at research showing that the use of water in labour can help increase the chance of physiological birth.
Want to promote normality? Try adding water!
Tag: midwife-led care
Midwives make a difference
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…
Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for a Physiologic Approach
This book, the successor to Henci Goer’s Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities but this time co-authored with Amy Romano, is possibly the most well thought out and planned book that I have read for a long time, and I can…
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…