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Birth Rights, Interventions & Navigating The System
Useful resources and links to research to help support what you already know about
understanding how the maternity system currently functions and your autonomy within it..
Websites:
www.birthrights.org.uk - RIghts
www.nice.org.uk - NHS Guidance
Articles:
How language can obscure choice - Dr sara Wickham
When is consent not consent? - Dr Sara Wickham
The trouble with birth and Maternity guidlines - Dr Sara Wickham
The madness of modern measurement - Dr Sara Wickham
Fixed point due dates and wider windows - Dr Sara Wickham
Paracetamol in Pregnancy & Birth - Dr Sara Wickham
Why Your estimated Due Date Might need a rethink - Dr Sara Wickham
Is Home Birth Safe? - Dr Sara Wickham
Optimal cord Clamping - What's the Evidence? - Dr Sara Wickham
Birth in The Media, What's the Problem? - Dr Sara Wickham
3 things I wish I knew about pregnancy and birth knowledge - Dr Sara Wickham
Vitamin K resources - Dr Sara Wickham
Vitamin K, persuasion tactics and tips
9 things you might not know about Anti D
What's right for you? Resources for birth decisions - Dr Sara Wickham
The Importance of Consent - Dr Sara Wickham
"Shared" decision Making- Dr Sara Wickham
The Cochrane review on approaches to the birth of the placenta - Dr Sara Wickham
Deciding to decline, or deciding to wait and see - Dr Sara Wickham
5 things you should know if you choose to decline Vitamin K - Dr Sara Wickham
Interventions:
Can i say no to Vaginal Examinations? - Dr Sara Wickham
What is a stretch and sweep? - Dr Sara Wickham
Questions to ask if you're offered induction - Dr Sara Wickham
Are there good reasons to Induce Labour? - Dr Sara Wickham
Induction increases Cesarean - Dr Sara Wickham
Induction of labour at, or before 42 weeks, evidence - Dr Sara Wickham
Let's be clear: Labour Onset is either Spontaneous or Induced! - Dr Sara Wickham
Induction of Labour, What do women think? - Dr Sara Wickham
Women's experiences of cervical ripening - Dr Sara Wickham
Women's experience of augmentation of labour - Dr Sara Wickham
The Arrive Trial - Dr Sara Wickham
Which first time mums are most at risk of Cesareans? - Dr Sara Wickham
The Big Baby trial - Dr Sara Wickham
How to cancel a labour induction - Dr Sara Wickham
Routine Induction for healthy women is not supported by evidence - Dr Sara Wickham
Explaining the Induction postcode lottery - Dr Sara Wickham
Fetal monitoring research resources
Books:
Informed is best: How to spot fake news about your pregnancy, birth and baby - Prof Amy Brown
The AIMS Guide to Your Rights in Pregnancy and Birth (The AIMS Guides) - Emma Ashworth
Inducing Labour - Dr Sara Wickham
What's Right For Me?: Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth - Dr Sara Wickham
Birthing Your Placenta - Dr Sara Wickham
Vitamin K and The newborn - Dr Sara Wickham
Anti D Explained - Dr Sara Wickham
Podcast Episodes:
Induction of Labour: Part 1 - The Great Birth Rebellion
Induction of Labour: Part 2 - The Great Birth Rebellion
The 5 big induction studies - The Great Birth Rebellion
Increase your chance of vaginal birth in hospital - The Great Birth Rebellion
Why do they put their fingers n your vagina - The Great Birth Rebellion
What to do when you are "Over due" - The Great Birth Rebellion
Declining Medical Recommendations - The Great Birth Rebellion
Big Babies, Small Babies - The Great Birth Rebellion
The risks of Induction: Part 1 - The Great Birth Rebellion
The risks of Induction: Part 2 - The Great Birth Rebellion
The medicalisation spectrum - The Great Birth Rebellion
Is CTG use in pregnancy ever beneficial? - The Great Birth Rebellion
Is CTG ever beneficial? - The Great Birth Rebellion
CTG use in labour and birth - The Great Birth Rebellion
Vaginal Examinations - The Midwives Cauldron
Listening to babies during labour - The Midwives Cauldron
Assessing labour progress: An interview with Dr Clare Davison - The Midwives Cauldron
How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop - The Midwives Cauldron
Through the lens of an obstetrician - The Midwives Cauldron
Anti D - The Midwives Cauldron
Induction of labour from the baby's perspective - The Midwives Cauldron
The herstory of modern birth practices - The Midwives Cauldron
Vaginal Examinations: With Emma Ashworth - Birth Ed
Birth Rights: With Emma Ashworth - Better Birth
Your Right to Record: With Emma Ashworth - Better Birth