Dr Rachel Reed
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- No woman's land - a student midwife's call (guest post)
- Amniotic Fluid Volume: too much, too little, or who knows?
- Guest post: when birth is trauma
- The Anterior Cervical Lip: how to ruin a perfectly good birth
- Nuchal Cords: the perfect scapegoat
- Induction: a step by step guide
- Induction of Labour: balancing risks
- In Celebration of the OP Baby
- Cord Blood Collection: confessions of a vampire-midwife
- Shoulder Dystocia: the real story
Tag Archives: judgement
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
