Articles and resources relating to vitamin K for newborn babies. By Sara Wickham, a midwife, researcher and author who has written extensively on this.
Vitamin K Resources
Tag: revisiting
Further thoughts on the third stage
Sara Wickham’s article in which she shares experience relating to the birth of the placenta, and suggests that things may not be what they seem!
What’s in a name?
Sara Wickham ponders the names that midwives have around the world, along with their meanings.
Revisiting the world wide wonder
Re-sharing a 2002 article by Sara Wickham about the way in which medical information is spread and shared on the internet.
Number Crunching
Sara Wickham discusses number crunching, statistics and the way that our cultural obsession with these things impacts health and maternity care.
We’ve always done it that way
To feel, or not to feel?
Sara Wickham discusses the practice of feeling for the nuchal cord at birth. How do women feel about this? Should this ever be routine?
Assessing cervical dilatation without VEs: Watching the purple line
Unassisted birth: listening and learning from the minority
Sara Wickham discusses freebirth and women who, for one reason or another, decide to give birth without professional assistance.
Holistic Tensions: is west really best?
Sharing an article that Sara Wickham wrote a few years ago about holistic healing modalities. Is the western approach to research really best?