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I'm taking an intermission break. I'll be back in May. 😊 💜Another snippet from last month's Collective lesson on big babies: A Cochrane review (Boulvain & Thornton 2023) found that "a policy of labour induction reduced the average birthweight of babies by 178g". That is less than the weight of an iPhone Max Pro."Turning the tide of birth culture will require us to heal our individual and collective wounds and take the risk of exercising our power."❗️Nuance Note: I am referring to physiological birth❗️Antenatal preparation should focus on nurturing a woman's self-trust rather than encouraging her to blindly 'trust birth'.In this month's newsletter, I give in and write about PAPP-A and low dose aspirin so you can stop messaging me about it 🤣 (arriving in inboxes on the 7th of April). Subscribe to my Mailing List for a monthly newsletter featuring evidence-based discussion, musings, rants and discounts on offers. The link is in my bio, or visit my website www.rachelreed.websiteTop Posts
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Judging Birth
This post is a little different to my usual posts (I apologise to those wanting some physiology and links to research). Instead, I have written about something that keeps cropping up in my conversations with mothers and birth workers. I … Continue reading