Sara Wickham discusses research showing that modifiable factors such as use of forceps and oxytocin may affect the severity of symptoms after obstetric anal sphincter injury.
Does oxytocin use affect the severity of OASI symptoms?
Tag: oxytocin
Oxytocin-related resources
Less is more … Oxytocin
Let there be mood lighting…
There can’t be many midwives or birth supporters who don’t already know about the advantages of low lighting for labour and birth. While we are still learning about whether and how darkness and light relate to the release of oxytocin…
Eight studies on my ‘normal birth’ reading pile (part 2)
This is the second part of my latest ‘research decluttering’ exercises, where I give up on the idea of writing you a separate blog post about every study in my ‘to read’ pile, and instead share the contents of the…
The ten most interesting articles on my reading pile (Spring 2015: part 2)
As I described in the first part of this post, being on the road in recent weeks has led to my finding a larger-than-usual number of interesting articles that I’d like to share, so I have created these posts as…
Home-made birth hearts recipe…
I’ve written a lot of research-focused posts recently; here’s a crafty one to balance that out… I’m still planning to write something more general about the way I use craft in birth and midwifery education, so if that is of…
Age, obesity and uterine contractility…
During the last week, two important papers from the Birthplace team have been published. The impact of maternal obesity on intrapartum outcomes in otherwise low risk women: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study, which has been available…
Five things we learned in Winter 2013…
Just in case you missed some of these as we slowed down for the holidays, I am offering a quick trip through five papers from towards the end of 2013 whose contents, for one reason or another, might be worthy…