Taking up space
A rant about being a woman taking up space in our world.
Reflections
My thoughts and ideas
A year of Birth Small Talk
It’s been a year since BirthSmallTalk was born. What was your favourite post? @birthsmalltalk
Just try harder, then it will work! An allegorical tale.
A tall tale about Chris and his attempts to make his daily commute safer. (But it’s actually about CTG monitoring….)
The pause
I always experience this time of the year as a pause – a stepping stone between past and future where there is the space to be momentarily very much present in the here and now. I’m not a huge fan of the large public celebrations that sit just before and just after this week. But they do produce this wonderful suspension of “business as usual” that I enjoy so much. […]
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 […]
Are doctors still improving childbirth?
Is more medical care always better? Reflections on the law of diminishing returns. @susan_bewley @eternal1098 #toomuchtoosoon
Birth technology as self-fulfilling prophecy
There is a logic trap that justifies ineffective birth technology. #CTG #EFM @TransformingMCC
What is perinatal asphyxia? An analysis of how we construct meaning.
What do we mean when we say perinatal asphyxia?
“Fetal Distress”: An Epic Tale
Is it time to rethink the concept of “fetal distress”?
