Maternal stress and the fetal heart rate
What is the relationship between maternal stress and fetal heart rate patterns? And what does this mean for maternity care?
New research
How do CTG guidelines impact doctors’ decisions?
All aspects of maternity care arise as consequences of the decisions that imperfect humans make, often structured by imperfect guidelines, derived from an imperfect or absent research base.
The relationship between maternal anaemia and fetal heart rate patterns
Maternal #anaemia reduces the incidence of abnormal #CTG patterns. That’s a surprise!
Keeping up with physiology research
If we don’t understand physiology, we don’t know what we are doing when we are monitoring the fetus. What’s the latest on physiological control of the fetal heart rate?
Brain changes and accelerations
Can #CTG changes predict the degree of severity of brain injury seen on #MRI? Yes. And is this information useful in practice? Not yet…. #HIE
Who gets to decide?
Most women want to be involved in decisions about their maternity care. Do many actually get what they want?
Noninvasive fetal ECG – how does it compare with standard CTG?
Might it be feasible to do prolonged periods of #CTG monitoring at home? This new research helps to take another step to answering that question. #EFM #Antenatal #FetalMonitoring #NifECG
Women’s experiences with new monitoring technology
A new approach to CTG monitoring improves comfort and mobility during labour.
Assessing the safety of hospital birth
Asking whether hospital birth is safe is very different to asking whether home birth is safe. What does the latest Cochrane review say?
Cool new technology
It’s tiny, it’s cool, and it does something that #CTG sensors can’t do. What is it?
Birth Small Talk 