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Archive for October 2024

Dawes Redman system

A student in my Fetal Monitoring for Maternity Professionals course asked me about this recently – and I realised I had never written about it, despite having promised to do so a few times! This is for Natalie, with gratitude. What is the Dawes Redman system? As an Australia maternity care provider, I have never encountered the Dawes Redman system in clinical practice. Its use seems to be widespread in […]

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Water birth and the perineum: Part 4

The POOL study (more information is here if you haven’t been following along with this series) is simply the latest in a long series of studies examining aspects of safety relating to the use, or not, of water immersion at birth. Where does the POOL study evidence fit with what was already known from earlier research? Does it provide something new and controversial, or does it reinforce where the evidence […]

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