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Is it time to overhaul the WHO antenatal care model?
We usually post the lead news story from Essentially MIDIRS on the website, but here’s an extra one for you. It’s a story that we found we couldn’t quite squeeze into June’s jam-packed edition! The WHO antenatal care model has been reassessed… The past decade has seen significant changes in the pattern... -
Vitamin D
The following news story appeared in Essentially MIDIRS, vol 4, no 5, May 2013, p24. Some interesting results have emerged over the years from the long-term health research project, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s. The latest research to be published... -
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‘I think it was forgotten that I am deaf!’
By Sharon Touhey, Student Midwife. As a student midwife in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, one of the first things we were taught was what it means to be a ‘midwife’. Given the word ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’, the importance of building a relationship with women... -
A Good Start in Life award for Agnes Gereb
Supporters of Agnes Gereb, the Hungarian midwife and obstetrician currently being kept under house arrest for her home birth practice, have announced that she has been awarded a prize by a Danish organisation, A Good Start in Life. They report that the award is for professionals who help and support... -
‘Midwifery is about communication, communication, communication…’
This month, MIDIRS stops to chat to Dr Andrew Yelland, who works for the University of the West of England as a midwifery lecturer. Andy is a newly-appointed midwifery lecturer in the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences at the University of the West of England in Bristol (UWE). He... -
Essentially MIDIRS, vol 4, no 5, May 2013
May’s edition of Essentially MIDIRS is, as usual, packed full of interesting articles to inform your practice and make you think. Australian midwife Anne Barnes’ article is certainly thought-provoking. She carefully considers research on cord clamping, ways in which it may be possible to increase the amount of blood the... -
The Female Pelvis
In your role as a midwife, you will need to have a sound knowledge and understanding of the anatomy of the female pelvis in order to be able to competently assess a woman’s progress in labour. This involves you being able to identify the relationship between the position and descent... -
The Francis inquiry
The following news story appeared in Essentially MIDIRS, vol 4, no 4, April 2013, p24. The final report into failures of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which contributed to an unacceptably high rate of deaths at Stafford Hospital over a number of years, was published recently. The inquiry... -
Midwives key to relaunched charity’s life-saving ambitions
For over 40 years, the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) has been supporting parents who have experienced the tragedy of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), more commonly known as ‘cot death.’ This is the term given to apparently healthy babies who die without warning, but even after...
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