Archive for the 'evidence-based research' Category

Group Beta Strep

Lisa Barrett has a great post about GBS (Group Beta Strep).  Enjoy!

truebirth.com

If you haven’t been to this website, you might want to check it out.
It’s pretty comprehensive on timely birth issues.

Risk Calculus of VBAC and ERCS

Rixa has a great post written on her blog based on a recent (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Green Journal article entitled Cost-Effectiveness of Elective Repeast Cesarean Delivery After One Prior Low Transverse Cesarean.
Thanks to a ♥ special client ♥ that initially forwarded the journal abstract to me.

what if…

we stopped doing things to mothers and babies at birth and immediately postpartum that are not helpful or beneficial to the health of both? Certainly the medical model and even the midwifery model of care uses various rituals in childbirth that are not necessary - but does it take an evidence-based article to stop […]