CTG monitoring is NOT mandatory: A request to writers
This is my regular reminder that CTG monitoring is a choice. Write like you believe this is true.
Feminism
Why might midwives not support choice of fetal monitoring method?
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.
Writing about ideas
Sometimes I like to write about ideas rather than research. Here is a collection of musings that might give you ideas too.
What is a medical indication?
Medical indications exist somewhere on a spectrum between being written on tablets of stone, handed down to new doctors by a supreme being on a mountain top – to being completely made up on a whim. What happens when they are misused?
Language matters
I write about the importance of language from time to time. Here’s a collection of all these thoughts in the one place.
Central fetal monitoring and the work of maternity clinicians
My doctoral thesis is now out from embargo and freely available. Reading a doctoral thesis is hardly everyone’s idea of a great way to spend an evening (or several), but if you do decide to read it let me know what you think!
Book review: What does it feel like being born?
A book about the power of saying yes. #MaternityActivism @HERevolution @Birthchoices
Birth Small Talk 