Tag: research updates

Positive benefits of physiological birth

Sara Wickham highlights a research study showing the transformative benefits of physiological birth.

Sara Wickham looks at research showing the gap between gap between what women need and want and the reality of what they experience when undergoing induction of labour.

A systematic review has concluded that induction prior to post-term is associated with few beneficial outcomes and several adverse outcomes.

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.