What does it take to make CTG monitoring happen?
One third of intrapartum care is taken up by fiddling about with the CTG
Tag Archive for ‘midwife’
Being with woman, not with machine
CTGs draw attention from the woman to the technology. Can different technology solve the problem?
Midwives must, obstetricians may: Learning new ways to read guidelines
When you put people back into clinical guidelines you can see previously invisible assumptions.
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 […]
Birth Small Talk 