High risk obstetrics and high risk women: a wee rant about language
“High risk” is a term that gets tossed around a lot in maternity services. Have you ever stopped to think about what is being hidden under the surface when it is used?
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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 […]
Unintended consequences in maternity care
“Being K2ed”: an unintended consequence of central fetal monitoring.
Midwives must, obstetricians may: Learning new ways to read guidelines
When you put people back into clinical guidelines you can see previously invisible assumptions.
Three strikes and you are out!
Three strikes and you are out! How a guideline meant to make maternity care safer undermined good communication.
Birth Small Talk 