Wednesday, December 11, 2019

What's new in midwifery - 11th December 2019

Quite a lot of recent things, this week, that you might find useful to know about...

Research and practice

Intrusive thoughts in perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (BMJ)

Elective and nonelective cesarean section and obesity among young adult male offspring: A Swedish population–based cohort study (PLOS Medicine)
Discussed in the Guardian, No link between caesarean delivery and obesity, research finds

Global health

Harare's heroine: how Esther Zinyoro made her home a maternity ward

Statistics

Birth characteristics in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics)
For 2018 - annual live births by sex, ethnicity, month, maternities by place of birth, multiple births, stillbirths, age of parents

Births by parents' characteristics, England and Wales, 2018 (government)
Annual live births age of mother and father, type of registration, median interval between births, number of previous live-born children and National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC).

Discussion relating to one of these at least in the Guardian, Record number of over-45s giving birth in England

NICE

Surveillance report NICE guideline (NG126)
Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management
This guideline will be updated: read this page to find out why.

In the news

Singing the blues: how music can help ease postnatal depression
Melodies for Mums, an iniative that is part of a study being funded by the Wellcome.

Maternity care failings in Shropshire (BMJ)

Opinion

BMJ editorial
Screening for cytomegalovirus in pregnancy

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