Tag: research updates

Our Birthing the Placenta online course starts tomorrow!

Last chance to secure a place on Sara Wickham’s “Birthing the Placenta” online course AND receive a free book!

We’ve checked the videos and podcasts, gathered oodles of interesting stuff to ponder, and the time has finally come to launch the penultimate run of our newest online course, Gathering in the Knowledge 2018. So tomorrow we will be welcoming…

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.

A recent editorial looks at some of the issues relating to home birth.

We need a better way of defining postpartum haemorrhage…

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.

More evidence on how to keep birth normal.

The results of a large trial on Carbetocin have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

An important paper has been published in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care this month, in which expert maternity care researchers from around the world have come together to call for a new approach to research. In ‘Asking different questions: A…