Tag: midwife-led care

• The Size of the Dog

  In the hazy light of retrospect I can still see her lying there on the hospital bed scowling at me. She was clutching her baby as if she’d won it in a game in which she’d cheated. In fact, I suppose she had… But I’m getting ahead of myself. Way ahead. I’d first met Mary […]

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  December 17, 2014

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  augmentation of labour, Caesarian section, different names for labour, dress rehearsal, estimated fetal weight, labour after a Caesarian section, litigious, midwife-led care, oxytocin, precipitous labour, trial of labour, ultrasounds in pregnancy, vaginal birth

• Midwifery… Deja vu all over again?

  Well, I see that midwifery is back in the news again, so I thought I’d revisit the issue -my last look at it  was in November, 2012. Its not that I’ve changed my opinions -I haven’t; nor that I have since discovered something new and compelling about the role of midwives in pregnancy -I continue […]

  gozzter

  August 23, 2013

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  birth experience, doctors as midwives, interventions in labour and delivery, midwife-led care, Midwifery, women’s health, women’s issues