The Undercover Midwife

Intermittent auscultation: the practice of listening to the baby's heartbeat at intervals either by a handheld ultrasonographic device ...

A Swedish study has looked at the risk of CS in low risk PAROUS women who are induced (women who have had a baby before).  The Caesarean sec...

Update 26.9.13 Good old Jane Martinson in The Guardian, she does seem to "get it"!  http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-...

I read a truly awful account in the AIMS Journal (Vol 25, No 1, 2013) about a free-birthing couple who were horribly bullied by the health s...

To have or not have intrapartum antibiotic  prophylaxis (IAP)  if you have been found to have Group B Streptococcus (GBS)? A recent Cochra...

Excellent demonstration outside parliament today, and meeting with MP for Shipley. Midwives, doulas, mothers, fathers, babies, siblings, hyp...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22300611 The authors interviewed women (in Australia) who had free-birthed or had homebirths despite b...

A review of 273,872 births by a team at the University of Southampton has shown that the rate of PPH is lower for women having homebirths, a...

For those who do not want a lotus birth (more of that on a later post maybe), what to do with the cord?  A plastic clamp?  A sterilised pie...

Welcome to my blog which is primarily for women making radical and difficult choices in the face of the demise of independent midwifery, the...