What is the risk of a baby dying during labour?
New research helps us to see what and where the risks are.
CTG
Cardiotocograph monitoring
To stab or to tickle: It’s a great question!
There are so many unanswered questions relating to CTG monitoring. I get really excited when I see that someone has plans to answer one of them! Here are details about #FIRSTT
CTG monitoring in the Netherlands
This is what CTG monitoring practice looks like in the Netherlands. How does this compare to where you are?
Exploring risk: making the argument for intrapartum CTG monitoring
Does our risk assessment process around CTG monitoring make sense?
What are the gaps in our knowledge?
My wish list for new research about fetal monitoring in labour. @ProfJennyGamble
Ready for some new insights?
I am speaking at the State of Birth online symposium on 16th October on Myths of cardiotocography and invite you to join us. The line up is fabulous and I’m looking forward to hearing the other speakers. Dr Rachel Reed of Midwife Thinking blog and the Midwives Cauldron podcast will be talking on the 15th and there is an interesting range of birth professionals involved from different perspectives. The event runs over […]
Why might midwives not support women’s choices?
The problem with guidelines is not that they exist nor that they play a role in structuring good practice. The problem is when guidelines over-reach their purpose.
Who makes decisions about fetal heart rate monitoring and how does it happen?
Myself and my co-authors have a new paper, freshly published with Women and Birth (available here). One of the questions I asked while generating data from my doctoral research was – who made the decision about the approach to fetal heart rate monitoring that any individual woman would use during her labour? At first glance, the answer seemed to be that no one was actively making decisions. I didn’t interview […]
It seems we can’t agree on this one….
Whose fault is it when we can’t agree on the CTG? #EFM #CTG #CTGInterpretation #CentralFetalMonitoring
What we don’t know about lactate might be harmful
We really have no idea what we are doing when it comes to fetal blood sampling during labour. Maybe we should stop doing it.
Birth Small Talk 