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Read midwifery news from Midwives, the bi-monthly magazine of the Royal College of Midwives. Find features on the role of the midwife; comment on the Midwives blog. Read in-depth research in Evidence Based Midwifery.

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The fog of childbirth(15.10, 24 February 2010) The way childbirth is depicted in TV programmes can be irritating – I sigh as I watch yet another actress doing the clichéd dash to the hospital, with crumpled partner in tow...

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Treating babies born before 22 weeksA woman who claims that medical staff left her premature baby to die because he was born at less that 22 weeks has attracted a number of headlines in the media. Sarah Capewell is campaigning for every baby, whatever their age, to be treated by doctors and for parents to be given information to make their own informed choice about whether the child should be treated in a neonatal intensive care unit. At the moment the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the British Association of Perinatal Medicine have guidelines saying that babies born below 22 weeks' gestation should not be resuscitated. Do you think these guidelines need to be revised, particularly in light of continuing advances in treating premature babies? 19/02/2010

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Why did this happen?With just over three-quarters of stillbirths ‘unexplained’, University of Manchester’s clinical lecturer Dr Alexander Heazell and medical student Mary-Jo McLaughlin emphasise the importance of clinical investigations into these deaths.
Bridging the gap?The RCM’s professional policy advisor Janet Fyle describes government initiatives to eradicate child poverty, including tax credits and the Child Trust Fund.
There will be bloodThis is the first in a series of three articles by Liz Hay, Saint Mary’s Hospital’s haematology specialist midwife in Manchester, which aim to give an overview of the most common bleeding disorders, their management in pregnancy and around delivery. This issue is von Willebrand’s disease.

Latest midwifery news

Concerns over unlawful cord blood collectionConcerns that umbilical cord blood is not being collected properly have been raised by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) 10 March 2010
An alternative gift for Mother’s DayThe charity Child In Need in India (CINI) is offering people the chance to buy a Mother’s Day gift of sponsoring a mother in India. 09 March 2010
Marking International Women’s DayToday on International Women’s Day marks the official launch of a week-long series of events that highlight the need to improve maternal and child health worldwide. 08 March 2010

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