What's new in midwifery - 31st October 2019

Some recent things, a day late.

Statistics

Newborn hearing screening: standards data report for April 2017 - March 2018

Global health

USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program
This comes to an end this year and there is a webinar to look at its achievements.
Book a ticket.

Research news

Post-term pregnancy research cancelled after six babies die (Guardian)



Grateful acknowledgement to the Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin

What's new in midwifery - 23rd October 2019

Some recent things you might want to be aware of.

Baby Loss Awareness Week

This was 9-15 October, but the Babyloss Awareness Week website is still present and has stories and more information.  The awareness week involves several organisations working in the areas of pregnancy and baby loss. 

NICE consultations

Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm: quality standard consultation

News

'My teeth moved so much I needed braces' – readers on how childbirth changed them
Short accounts, in the Guardian.



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, the London Evening Standard

What's new in midwifery - 17th October 2019

Some recent things, a day late.

Audit

National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit 2018

Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report 2019
5th MBRRACE-UK report

Perinatal Mortality Review Tool- First annual report

Statistics

Sex ratios at birth: Great Britain: 2013 to 2017

NICE consultations

Episcissors-60 for guided mediolateral episiotomy

Royal College of Physicians and Society for Acute Medicine

Ensuring pregnant women get the right hospital treatment for urgent medical problems: acute care toolkit

News

Baby Friendly Initiative - University of Leicester Midwifery courses receive Certificate of Commitment for its Infant Feeding Cafes

Alcohol industry 'puts pregnant women at risk', researchers say


Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, King's Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

What's new in midwifery - 9th October 2019

Some recent things...

Research

Being ‘A Google Mom’ or Securely Monitored at Home: Perceptions of Remote Monitoring in Maternity Care
Journal of Advanced Nursing, a study from Finland

Multicultural coping experiences of parents following perinatal loss: A meta‐ethnographic synthesis
Journal of Advanced Nursing, a study from Spain

NICE

NICEimpact: maternity and neonatal care
A report on the impact of NICE guidance on maternity and neonatal care.

NICE are consulting on prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus - fetoscopic repair  and open repair . 

Mental health

Centre for Mental Health
An economic evaluation of specialist counselling after baby loss

In the news

Kaz Cooke (author of Up the Duff): women were in the dark about their pregnancies. Now there’s too much advice

Vaginal fluid transplants could cure bacterial vaginosis [a condition that can have complications for pregnant women]

Baby dies in UK prison after inmate 'gives birth alone in cell'

and on the same story

Multiple inquiries ordered into death of baby in UK prison

Experience: my wife lost her memory while giving birth [as a result of eclampsia]


Acknowledgements: King's Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert, Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin.

What's new in midwifery - 2nd October 2019

Some recent things...

University of Leicester members are welcome to contact me for advice on accessing full text of the research cited below.    Other readers should contact their librarian!

Research

Enhanced communication and staff training could improve the experience of maternity services for asylum-seeking women (NIHR Signals)
Summary of research reported in Midwifery.

Treatment for liver disorder in pregnancy ineffective, finds study
News item about the PITCHES trial of ursodeoxycholic acid for intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.  The trial was published in the Lancet.

Planned delivery reduces impact of potentially fatal pregnancy complication, trial finds
Report of the PHOENIX trial of management for preterm pre-eclampsia.  The trial was published in the Lancet.

In the news

Babies exposed to air pollution have greater risk of death - study
Study being presented at the European Respiratory Society annual meeting.

Historic find suggests bottle-feeding not a modern phenomenon

Transgender man loses court battle to be registered as father

How a pioneering study of child health has influenced a generation of parents (about the Children of the 90s study)



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin