Birth Essential References
General resources
Sara Wickham (2018) What's Right For Me?: Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth (Paperback)
NICE (2017) (Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies)
AIMS (2014) Am I Allowed? (paperback)
Sara Wickham (2018) Inducing Labour (paperback) (lots of scenarios covered from ‘older age’, prolonged rupture of membranes, maternal BMI and fetal growth etc)
WHO (2018) (WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience)
Due dates
Sara Wickham (2018) Inducing Labour (paperback)
AIMS (2020)
Marroun et al (2020) Association of Gestational Age at Birth With Brain Morphometryhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2770535
Group B Strep
Sara Wickham (2019) Group B Strep Explained (paperback) Sara Wickham online: (2018)
GBSS (UK charity)
Vaginal Examinations
Midwife Thinking (2016) The Anterior Cervical Lip: how to ruin a perfectly good birthhttps://midwifethinking.com/2016/06/15/the-anterior-cervical-lip-how-to-ruin-a-perfectlygoodbirth/#:~:text=Spontaneous%20pushing%20before%20full%20dilatation,to%20move%20beyond%20 the%20cervix.
Induction of Labour
NICE guidance (2019) (2015) (previous caesarean births) Sara Wickham (2018)
Inducing Labour (paperback) Sara Wickham (2018)
Covid-19 NHS / RCM / RCOG (2020)
Framework to assist NHS trusts to reintroduce access for partners, visitors and other supporters of pregnant women in English maternity services
Sara Wickham (2020)
RCOG (2020)
Coronavirusinfection and pregnancy Preterm labour NICE (2015)
Triplets and Twins NICE (2019) Twins Trust
Caesarean Birth and VBAC
NICE (2019) AIMS (2015) VBAC in birth centres
RCOG (2016) Birth options after previous caesarean section 2
Women with Existing Medical Conditions NICE (2020) Blood pressure NICE (2019)
Diabetes
NICE (2019) Sara Wickham (2020)
Vitamin K
Sara Wickham (2017) Vitamin K and the Newborn (Paperback)