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Background
Routine use of medical interventions during labor has been identified as a clinical area for concern, since such routinized practice is not consistent with an evidence‐based approach to care and continues to increase despite efforts to encourage normal childbirth. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore maternity health professionals’ use of interventions during the second stage...
Background
Increasing numbers of childbearing women with a history of female genital mutilation (FGM) are accessing maternity services in high‐income countries across the world. For many of these women, their first contact with the health services in their host country is when they are pregnant. While the clinical consequences of certain categories of FGM are well documented, how high‐risk maternity...
Background
The safety of vaginal breech birth depends on the expertise of birth attendants, yet the meaning of “expertise” remains unclear and subjectively defined. The objective of this study was to define expertise and the roles experts may play in expanding access to this service.
Methods
We performed an integrative analysis of two strands of data concerning expertise in physiological breech...
Background
The safety of vaginal breech birth depends on the skill of the attendant. The objective of this review was to identify, synthesize, and report the findings of evaluated breech birth training strategies.
Methods
A systematic search of the following on‐line databases: Medline, CINAHL Plus, PsychINFO, EBM Reviews/Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Maternity and Infant Care, and Pubmed, using a structured...
Midwifery activity in the labour room coalesces around routine surveillance practices. When engaging in such practice, midwives have to cope with attempting to instil a sense of confidence in the mother’s embodied ability to give birth to her baby spontaneously while concurrently attending to an array of risk‐focused tests and measurements. Midwives are vigilant about the potential harm that may come...
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