What's new in midwifery - 25th September 2019

Just a few recent things this time...

NHS news

Wakefield - survey finds parents want choice over place of birth

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System - feedback wanted on information website for pregnant women (and other groups)

News

Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin

What's new in midwifery - 18th September 2019

Some recent things...

NICE guidance

BMJ discussion of updated NICE guidance about hypertension in pregnancy

Audit

National Maternity and Perinatal Audit: Clinical Report 2019

Statistics

Women's smoking status at time of delivery, quarter 1, 2019-20 (NHS Digital)

Mental health

Mental health and the journey to parenthood (Healthwatch)
Mental health experiences before, during and after pregnancy

News

New specialist FGM support clinics
Guardian
NHS England

Air pollution particles found on foetal side of placentas - study

Research is here (if you are University of Leicester and cannot get access, contact the Library).

UK maternity services: audit finds wide variation in birth complications (BMJ)

Discusses findings of National Maternity and Perinatal Audit: Clinical Report 2019

Postnatal checks for new mothers need to be properly funded, charity tells government (BMJ)

Opinion

Repeat after me: Vagina is not a dirty word (Guardian)
About the terminology used in health care consultations, among other things.


Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin

What's new in midwifery - 11th September 2019

Some recent things...

NICE Guidance

Twin and triplet pregnancy (NICE guideline, NG137)

Multiple pregnancy: twin and triplet pregnancy (Quality standard, QS46)

Caesarean section (Clinical guideline, CG132)

Safeguarding
NHS safeguarding accountability and assurance framework - revised 3rd September

Sepsis

Clinical Knowledge Summaries - evidence based, information on how to recognise and manage it - new.

Statistics

Unexplained deaths in infancy, 2017 (National Statistics)

In the news

Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’

End NHS maternity charges for vulnerable migrants, say midwives

GPs are ignoring new mothers' mental health, says parenting charity

NICE consultations

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Neonatal parenteral nutrition



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin

What's new in midwifery - 4th September 2019

Some things you might like to know about.

Statistics

Maternity statistics
April 2019
May 2019 

Quarterly conceptions to women aged under 18 years (England)
April to June 2018

Public Health England

Generation genome and the opportunities for screening programmes
Includes opportunities in screening for fetal anomalies, sickle cell and thalassemia, infectiosu diseases in pregnancy, and newborn blood spot screening and newborn hearing screening.

News

Lots this time...

The man who gave birth (Guardian podcast)
Freddy McConnell is a trans man who decided to begin the process of conceiving and delivering his own child.   The film Seahorse is about this, and the podcast is an interview with Freddy.
There is also a video, If all men got pregnant, it'd be taken more seriously: behind the scenes of Seahorse. 

Doctors can perform C-section if woman loses mental capacity, judge rules

Not the Booker: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin review – an angry story of pain
Review of a book about the author's experience of endometriosis.

Woman who gave birth alone in Denver jail cell sues city authorities



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin