Some must-reads:
- Does breech delivery in an upright position instead of on the back improve outcomes and avoid caesareans? Louwen, Daviss, Reitter and Johnson, 2017, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Informed consent and refusal in obstetrics: A practical ethical guide Kotaska, 2017, Birth Issues in Perinatal Care
- Approaches to Limit Intervention During Labor and Birth ACOG, 2017
- The Daughters of Time: On the Paths to Midwifery Barbara Katz Rothman, 1998, Midwifery Today
- Fish Can’t See Water – the need to humanize birth Marsden Wagner, 2001, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Out of the Laboratory: Back to the Darkened Room Anderson, T. 2002
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care. Buckley, S. 2015
- Women and babies need protection from the dangers of normal birth ideology. Against. Support for normal birth is crucial to safe high-quality maternity carePage, L. (2017), BJOG: Int J Obstet Gy, 124: 1385. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.14668
- Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world. Brownlee, Shannon et al. The Lancet , Volume 390 , Issue 10090 , 156 – 168
Brocklehurst 2017 Computerised interpretation of fetal heart rate during labour (INFANT): a randomised controlled trial The INFANT Collaborative Group† Volume 389, No. 10080, p1719–1729, 29 April 2017
Brocklehurst P. et al, ‘Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study’ BMJ 2011;343:bmj.d7400
Downe, S. Normal Childbirth. Elseiver. London. 2008
Downe S. Engaging with the concept of unique normality in childbirth. 354 BRITISH JOURNAL OF MIDWIFERY, JUNE 2006, VOL 14, NO
Downe S, Finlayson K, Tuncalp Ӧ, Metin Gulmezoglu A. What matters to women: a systematic scoping review to identify the processes and outcomes of antenatal care provision that are important to healthy pregnant women. BJOG 2015; DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.13819.
Dahlen H et al. Is society being reshaped on a microbiological and epigenetic level by the way women give birth? Midwifery 2014 30(12): 1149-1151.
Hyde M et al. The health implications of birth by caesarean section. Biol. Rev2012 ;87(1):229-43.10.
The Birthplace national prospective cohort study: perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth. Birthplace in England research programme. Final report part 4: Hollowell J, Puddicombe D, Rowe R, Linsell L, Hardy P, Stewart M, et al.
Beyond too little, too late and too much, too soon: a pathway towards evidence-based, respectful maternity care worldwide. Miller et al (2016) Lancet 2016 Volume 388, No. 10056, p2176–2192, 29 October 2016
Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for childbearing women. Sandall J, Soltani H, Gates S, Shennan A, Devane D. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD004667. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004667.pub5
Nil nocere: doing no harm as an important guiding principle within maternity care. Wickham and Robinson (2010) MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 20:4 2010
Making Normal Birth a Reality: Consensus Statement from the maternity care working party NCT/RCM/RCOG November 2007:
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