20 December 2020
For years, requests have popped up on social media, on posters in antenatal waiting rooms and via the Knitting Networks. “Volunteers needed to knit baby hats for newborns in the maternity unit”...
7 September 2020
There is a failing in our school system, and it is that despite all of the sex education and reproductive biology that we may have all had to giggle through, there is nothing – and I mean nothing – on birth itself, beyond the fact that the baby comes out
6 August 2020
The Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries (OASI) Bundle is a group of interventions which aims to reduce the number of injuries up to and into the anal sphincter which can happen during a vaginal birth.
12 June 2020
Many UK hospitals have focused on prioritising support for homebirth during Covid-19, recognising that keeping as many birthing women and people away from the hospital as possible during a pandemic is the best way to keep midwives and families safe from the coronavirus.
25 March 2020
The answer is pre-caution. What is already known is that pregnancy can alter how the body handles viral infections and in a small percentage of women it alters how the body manages severe viral infections significantly.
24 February 2020
27 January 2020
20 December 2019
MBRRACE is a report which is led by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, at the University of Oxford, this report is an analysis and investigation into the cause of maternal death, stillbirths and infant death.
8 August 2019
