The My Baby’s Movements app – did it help?
There’s an app for that – does it help?
New research
Up is good, down is not
New evidence about the relationship between decelerations, accelerations, and hypoxic brain injury.
The CTG as medicolegal protection
“You’ll get sued if you don’t put a CTG on”. Is it true? @louiseroth
What is the risk of a baby dying during labour?
New research helps us to see what and where the risks are.
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?
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 