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