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What happens to women after they leave the birth room?

One of the problems I see with the evidence base relating to fetal heart rate monitoring during labour, is the focus predominantly on the immediate outcomes of birth. This is really obvious when you look at outcomes for the woman. The studies included in the Alfirevic et al., 2017 Cochrane review report on how women gave birth (caesarean section, instrumental birth, or spontaneous vaginal birth), whether they made use of […]

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