Research and Guidelines
For Mumma-baby centred care and informed choices
Labour and Birth
Big Babies
Cochrane Collaboration (2016): Induction of Labour at or near term for suspected macrocosmia [big baby].
Cochrane Collaboration (2016): Regimens of fetal surveillance of suspected large-for-gestational-age fetuses for improving health outcomes.
Evidence Based Birth (2016): Evidence on: Induction or C-section for a big baby.
Induction
Midwife Thinking (2017): Induction of labour – Balancing risks.
Sarah Wickam (2016): Ten things I wish every woman knew about induction.
Sarah Wickam (2016): More evidence that and why induction leads to more caesareans.
Estimating Dilation Externally
Science & Sensibility (2012): The Red-Purple Line: An Alternate method for assessing cervical dilation using visual cues.
Birth Without Fear (2013): Alternative Methods of Checking Dilation – The Purple Line and More
Maternally Led Pushing
Midwife Thinking (2015): Supporting women’s instinctive behaviours during birth
Supporting & Protecting the Perineum
Cochrane Collaboration (2011): Perineal techniques during second stage labour for reducing perineal trauma.
Royal College of Midwives (2012) Evidence Based Guidelines for Midwifery Led Care in Labour – Care for the Perineum
After Birth
Optimal Cord Clamping
Cord Clamping Evidence Based Research Summary
World Health Organisation (WHO) Guidelines (2012): Optimal timing of cord clamping for the prevention of iron deficiency anaemia in infants
Cochrane Collaboration (2103): Timing Umbilical Cord Clamping Term Infants – Mother and Baby Outcomes
Science & Sensibility (2016): New Cochrane Review: Delaed cord clamping likely beneficial for healthy term newborns
Science & Sensibility (2016): Common Objections to Cord Clamping – What’s the evidence say?
Skin to Skin
Cochrane Collaboration (2012): Early skin to skin for skin to skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants
Sara Wickham Research Updates (2014): Skin-to-skin should be agressively promoted
Sara Wickham Research Updates(2014): The importance of skin-to-skin immediately after c-section
Raeylene Phillips (2013): Uninterupted skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth
The Critical Hour after Birth
World Health Organisation (2016): Early initiation of breast feeding
Michel Odent (2002): The First Hour Following Birth- Don’t Wake the Mother
Lara Sanders (2014): A Timeline of a baby’s first hour
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