Labouring to better effect: services for women in early labour.

The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme (SDO) has published this research summary presenting an overview of the range of services maternity care providers have introduced to provide advice to women in early labour, focusing on what midwives and women think of them.

Read it here...



http://www.sdo.lshtm.ac.uk/files/adh...ch-summary.pdf

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Thanks for posting that TallPoppy.

I have saved it, brilliant!

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That's great TallPoppy,

Thanks for sharing that, I too have saved it.

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Me too, ty J

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mm early labour is a biggy isn't it?? Such a difficult stage for a lot of women, particularly primps (1st time mums) it can go on for quite some time, and I do not like the dismissive attitude you sometimes encounter, "your only ... cms etc.. get yourself home, you'll be hours yet etcetc Once again, it all comes back to educating women to recognise their own bodies, feel the rhythms of labour, and methods of coping, strategies etc. Bring nack the breathing (old fashioned yes, effective yes!!)
Shall we open a maternity unit, like Caroline Flints in London?? I would love to work there, what an opportunity.

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I would love to spend some time in a birth centre, see what normality is actually like.

I not saying that complications can't arise there, they can and do, but I would love the experience and to see the differences between there and a hospital environment.

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