What's new in midwifery - 16th August 2018

A day late, but some recent things you might need to know about.  

Genetic testing

Genetics Home Reference: What is noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and what disorders can it screen for?  (American website, so check that what is discussed applies here).

Research

Labor Induction versus Expectant Management in Low-RiskNulliparous Women (NEJM)

Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia versusintramuscular pethidine for pain relief in labour (RESPITE): an open-label,multicentre, randomised controlled trial (Lancet)

Reported in the Guardian and the BMJ.

In the news (all in the Guardian)

Postnatal depression: fathers can suffer similar issues to women, say experts (research presented at an American Psychological Association meeting)

Report on the work of a Dublin company making a milk monitoring system that measures how much the baby has consumed

Adele shares story of friend's postpartum psychosis to help new mothers

and something to make non midwives aware of, perhaps:  

Bump in the road: how to deliver a baby in an emergency 

Grateful thanks to:  NLM Announces; NEJM and BMJ tables of contents; as well as time spent reading the Guardian