Three things to stop saying about fetal monitoring
Terms like “happy,” “tired,” and “distressed”have no place in fetal monitoring discussions. Let’s use accurate language to describe fetal health, instead of emotional interpretations.
Language
Are we monitoring or not? Language matters.
When is fetal monitoring not fetal monitoring? #EFM #CTG #LanguageMatters
Myth Busting #3: Fetal monitoring is essential
The third part of a series critiquing common myths about fetal heart rate monitoring. It emphasises that fetal monitoring is not essential for good outcomes, and intermittent auscultation IS fetal monitoring.
Words have power
Words have power. I know this – the approach I used for my doctoral research requires you to look closely at how language shapes the social world. If you have hung around the birth world for a bit, you have probably made some conscious choices about whether you use the words “patient” and “delivery”. I spend most of my working week choosing which words work best to get the job […]
High risk obstetrics and high risk women: a wee rant about language
“High risk” is a term that gets tossed around a lot in maternity services. Have you ever stopped to think about what is being hidden under the surface when it is used?
Let’s just pop you on a trace. A reflection on language.
Is it OK to manipulate the information we share with birthing women about fetal monitoring so they do what we want?
Reviewing the evidence for Intermittent Auscultation
I was excited to see a new paper, setting out the evidence for intermittent auscultation in labour (Anderson, et al., 2023). It was published in a journal for US based nurse-midwives, so it relates to the context of care in that country. Let’s see how they did in terms of getting the facts right. Is their evidence accurate? They wrote that: All this is correct, except that one of the […]
Found it! The fascinating history of the discovery and rediscovery of the clitoris
The #clitoris has been “discovered” many times during the #history of #anatomy. Will it disappear again?
What does a ChatBot have to say about CTG monitoring?
Has a #ChatBot taken over my blog? Would you notice if it did?
Birth Small Talk 