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Link to blog page in bio and full blog post: https://midwifethinking.com/2016/01/13/perineal-protectors/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'.Top Posts
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Cord Blood Collection: confessions of a vampire-midwife
Updated: February 2022 When I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed student midwife, I was awarded with a certificate and a box of chocolates. My achievement was collecting the most ‘cord’ blood in the hospital. At that time, the Local Health … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, cord blood, ethics, information giving, law, placenta, stem cells
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