Dr Rachel Reed
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Top Posts
- 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: shoulder dystocia
Shoulder Dystocia: the real story
Updated: April 2019 The media have been reporting on shoulder dystocia. Apparently doctors are having to attend special classes to learn how to break babies’ bones because mothers make their babies too big. At least that’s the story – women … Continue reading
Posted in birth, intervention, midwifery practice
Tagged birth, complication, intervention, positions, risk, shoulder dystocia
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