In 1910, suffragist Helen Todd highlighted the importance of women’s voting rights for improving working conditions, coining the phrase “Bread for all, and Roses too.” While maternity services focus on physical health (Bread), there is a pressing need to enhance women’s emotional and experiential birth outcomes (Roses), fostering joy and meaning in the process.
Prevalence-induced concept change is a psychological phenomenon where the meaning of a concept shifts due to declining frequency of related events. Over time, the definition of “high risk” in maternity care has expanded despite reduced perinatal mortality, leading to shifts in CTG usage.
I’ve only just recently been to see the Barbie movie. It was fun, pink, sparkly, with a beautifully realised portrayal of Barbie Land, and excellent music. My daughter and I watched it in a middle of the day, middle of the week sitting and had the luxury of having the entire cinema to ourselves with the exception of one other woman. Very handy when you might end up singing along! […]
I’m not saying the goal of shared decision making is inherently wrong – it’s simply too little and too late.
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?
Measuring outcomes in fetal monitoring research: there’s more to it than at first glance.
I once wrote a post about Dr Who and alternative universes, highlighting the way that people make meaning of their individual experiences. It is important for health professionals to reflect on the way we make meaning because it is easy to slip into what are known as cognitive biases. We can’t always avoid these, but it does help to have examples of these biases to increase the chance that we […]
What do we mean when we say perinatal asphyxia?
Is it time to rethink the concept of “fetal distress”?
Birth Small Talk 