Date: 26/06/2009
Induction of labour
Dr Sara Wickham
'Within Western society, 20 per cent of women now have their labours artificially induced. Consequently, induction of labour has become a huge issue within modern maternity care. ...
Date: 25/06/2009
A simple guide to critiquing research articl...
Colin Rees
Midwifery practice should be influenced by the best information available. However, when this takes the form of research articles, it can be difficult to know if the work is sound, and fit for purpose...
Date: 25/06/2009
Cup feeding revisited
Sharon Trotter
Following the successful podcast ‘Skin deep: neonatal skin/cord care’, we were pleased to invite Sharon Trotter, midwife, mother and author, back to present her work on cup feeding. Whilst researchin...
Date: 25/06/2009
Division of tongue tie
Rachel Hillan
Rachel Hillan's podcast focuses on the condition of tongue tie, also known as ankyloglossia, and its problems in relation to breastfeeding. ...
Date: 25/06/2009
Facing issues in practice that are controver...
Dr Sara Wickham
This podcast explores some of the issues behind prophylaxis in general and antenatal anti-D in particular. It explores the nature of prophylaxis, the different standpoints that exist in relation to th...
Date: 25/06/2009
Is midwives' use of complementary therapies ...
Denise Tiran
Denise Tiran is an internationally-renowned authority on maternity-related complementary therapies and is particularly interested in the safety of different therapies during pregnancy and childbirth, ...
Date: 25/06/2009
Knowledge for practice
Sally Price
In this podcast, Sally Price shares with you her own experiences of being a student midwife, offers tips on the educational resources and strategies that she found most helpful to her studies, and tal...
Date: 25/06/2009
Normal birth
Dr Denis Walsh
The normal childbirth agenda is alive and well in the UK and examples of innovative models are growing. An evidence paradigm is supportive of normal birth in the main; however, preference in evidence ...
Date: 25/06/2009
Normal neonatal behaviour and the psychology...
Dr Joanna Hawthorne-Amick
This podcast is presented by Research Psychologist, Dr Joanna Hawthorne-Amick, who talks about understanding how babies communicate and how we, as midwives, can help parents read their babies signals ...