He ain’t stopped cryin’ After a forceps delivery (fairly normal following an induction which often leads to a ‘cascade of intervention’ where one intervention leads to the next and the next) Julia’s baby cried and cried. As Dean succinctly put it “He ain’t stopped cryin’”. Such deliveries are often distressing for the baby who is ...
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One Born Every Minute: The contagion of fear
Fear is the enemy of birth Channel 4 continues to educate and scare in equal measure; examples of how not to do it continue in every birth in the latest episode of One Born Every Minute. Fear is contagious. Without being able to see anything, Tendayi sat in her hospital bed listening to a woman screaming ...
Induction of Labour
Induction: help or hindrance? Like most medical tools, inductions have a valuable role to play when there is a medical need. Like most medical tools they are used too often, too quickly and with minimal regard for the complications they pose to mother and child. The NICE guidelines, on which this post is based, state in the ...