Vivienne Hill - Midwife

25/09/2024

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30/08/2024

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14/08/2024

https://www.sarawickham.com/research-updates/is_home_birth_safe/

Our home birth information hub - the latest research on the safety of home birth and links to Dr Sara Wickham's articles on this.

03/08/2024

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15/07/2024

I'm guessing it works via suction by pressing it into the breast then gently pulling it out once it's sucked onto the breast.

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14/07/2024

This is the best demo I've seen of how to make muka! My efforts aren't nearly as good.

14/07/2024

What are your favourite maternity podcasts? The Midwives' Cauldron, where Katie James interviews Dr Rachel Reed https://open.spotify.com/episode/53oXTnvy1yLUSzrAJAkNIo?si=kacfXw8XRKqQkUUiP5oR_Q&nd=1&dlsi=49f610462f96416f is one of my favourites. Also see Rachel's blog: which is a fantastic resource: https://midwifethinking.com/

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14/07/2024

Discussion on recent research about coffee in pregnancy. https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/dont-steal-our-coffee/ I love Sara and Amy's witty conflict disclosure comments at the end of the blog.

Amy Brown and Sara Wickham look at research on coffee and stillbirth and come up with a rather different - and less scary - conclusion.

29/06/2024

I read about this a few years ago, and on the one opportunity I subsequesntly had to practice face-first air exposure, it was brilliant.

Many US practitioners are unaware that we do waterbirth differently than our European colleagues who developed it. Many of these European doctors and midwives are upset at that difference and would like US midwives to change the way we do waterbirths. There are two crucial differences in the way wat...