What does a ChatBot have to say about CTG monitoring?
Has a #ChatBot taken over my blog? Would you notice if it did?
Language
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.
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.
Are we monitoring or not? Language matters.
When is fetal monitoring not fetal monitoring? #EFM #CTG #LanguageMatters
A poem: A midwife thinking
I played with a number of analytical techniques when conducting my data analysis. One interesting approach I experimented with was the use of what are known as I poems. (I became aware of them when reading a chapter by Reid, 2017). To construct an I poem you select phrases in the data that start with “I”, collect them together and explore what they say about what people are doing. While […]
What is perinatal asphyxia? An analysis of how we construct meaning.
What do we mean when we say perinatal asphyxia?
The invisible trauma in our perinatal data
What do official records reveal about our beliefs around birthing bodies and trauma? #BirthTraumaAwarenessWeek
What do dead white men have to do with it?
Someone took a little rant of mine and turned it into something wonderful!
Birth Small Talk 