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What was your experience? Was your decision about which type of fetal monitoring method you wanted respected? So many maternity professionals simply repeat mistruths, misunderstandings, assumptions, beliefs, and sometimes some outright lies about different types of fetal monitoring. Without trustworthy information about what research actually shows - it is impossible to make informed decisions. You can know take control of your knowledge - because the evidence is all set out in Monitoring Your Baby In Labour. 100% completely nonsense free! It's my opinion that one of the most important factors that will predict whether your birth is AMAZING or traumatic is the type of Fetal Monitoring used in labour and who was in charge of making the decisions about what to use. It's hard to find reliable information about your options. Many maternity professionals repeat the same tired myths and don't know what the evidence really says. If you are planning a VBAC - here are my three book recommendations to help you be well prepared to have a better birth this time! Are you pregnant and planning your next birth after a caesarean section? If the plan is for a vaginal birth, the decisions you make about fetal monitoring can make a big difference to your experience of your labour and the chance of another caesarean section. Dr Sara Wickham's @sarawickham.com book What's Right For Me? has a proud place on my bookshelf among my favourite books for women using maternity care. If you found it helpful, then you are probably going to find Monitoring Your Baby in Labour really useful too. It has all the information you need to decide what approach to fetal monitoring is right for you. Postpartum bleeding poses significant health risks. The WOMAN-2 trial found higher postpartum haemorrhage rates with episiotomy. CTG use could be driving up the rate of heavy bleeding - but what does the research say? Thank you to the people who have been waiting for my book to be restocked! Your orders went in the post today. If you like using evidence to help with your birth decisions, my freshly published book Monitoring Your Baby In Labour is exactly what you need. The decision to use intermittent auscultation, CTG monitoring, or neither has a big impact on your birth - but most women leave it to someone else to tell them what to use. You can make this decision yourself and you'll find practical advice about how to do that in chapter seven.
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