Tag Archives: birth
Understanding and Assessing Labour Progress
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Posted in birth, midwifery practice
Tagged birth, contractions, labour pattern, oxytocin, pushing
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Pre-labour Rupture of Membranes: impatience and risk
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Posted in baby, birth, intervention, midwifery practice, pregnancy
Tagged amniotic fluid, amniotic sac, augmentation, baby, birth, contractions, induction, nuchal cord, oxytocin, prelabour rupture of membrances, risk, syntocinon, waterbirth
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The Anterior Cervical Lip: how to ruin a perfectly good birth
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Tagged birth, cervical lip, cervix, occipito-posterior, OP, pushing
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In Celebration of the OP Baby
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Tagged birth, blame, cervix, intervention, labour pattern, occipito-posterior, OP, optimal fetal positioning, positions
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The Placenta: essential resuscitation equipment
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Tagged ARM, baby, birth, heart rate, intervention, nuchal cord, placenta, resuscitation, syntocinon, umbilical cord
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Perineal Protectors?
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Tagged birth, episiotomy, perineum, positions, pushing, water
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In Defence of the Amniotic Sac
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Tagged amniotic fluid, amniotic sac, ARM, birth, caul, contractions, heart rate, induction, intervention, syntocinon, waterbirth
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Supporting women’s instinctive pushing behaviour during birth
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Tagged birth, pushing
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Shoulder Dystocia: the real story
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Tagged birth, complication, intervention, positions, risk, shoulder dystocia
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Nuchal Cords: the perfect scapegoat
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Tagged baby, birth, nuchal cord, umbilical cord
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