What's new in midwifery - mostly COVID related

The last collection of things you may want to know about.  

Firstly, COVID related:

A systematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, published in Pediatric Research.

Another, of the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, published in BJOG.

Then, a population based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - two separate groups, using health records from Scotland, published in Nature Communications.

And a sequential prospective meta-analysis of clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes among women with COVID-19 in the pregnancy and postpartum period, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

And then non COVID related:

A report of the EXPECT trial of insulin degludec or insulin detemir, both in combination with insulin aspart, in the treatment of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes (the link is to the PubMed record).

A Cochrane review of fetal scalp stimulation for assessing fetal wellbeing during labour.

And three articles from the Journal of Advanced Nursing:

One a systematic review of qualitative research on parental perceptions and experiences of infant crying.

The eye of this older librarian was caught by a qualitative descriptive study of managers' perception of older nurses and midwives and their contribution to the workplace.

And finally, a qualitative reflexive thematic analysis study of midwives' perspectives of intravenous fluid management and fluid balance documentation in labour.

I have caught up.  I am indebted to McMaster's Evidence Alerts, health alerts from colleagues at the Rotherham Hospital Library and Knowledge Service, and the King's Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert for much of the material in those last four updates.