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Antenatal CTGs in the Netherlands: the impact on midwifery continuity of care

While last week’s post questioned whether we should be doing antenatal CTGs at all, this week’s post explores the positive impact of a shift from referring women into obstetric care for antenatal CTG monitoring to providing this in primary midwife-led care. Maternity care in the Netherlands The Netherlands offers a very different approach to maternity care than most other high income countries. Midwifery care is very much accepted and supported […]

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Antenatal CTG monitoring: Does it work?

As I have been refreshing older blog posts, I realised I never did get around to writing about antenatal CTG use. Today’s post solves that gap! What is antenatal CTG monitoring and when is it used? Mostly I write about the use of CTG monitoring during labour. But this is not the only time CTGs are used in maternity care. Maternity professionals also use CTGs during pregnancy in an attempt […]

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