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  • Plus Size Pregnancy
    Sara Wickham
    Have you been told that your pregnancy is high risk simply because you have a higher BMI? Have you been advised that you need extra tests and interventions, or that you have no choice about where you give birth? Do you feel pressured or scared into following this advice? Are you wondering whether higher BMI actually makes a difference and whether guidelines about higher BMI and...
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    20,45 €

  • What’s Right For Me?
    Sara Wickham
    The decisions that we make about pregnancy and childbirth can shape our experiences, health and lives for years to come, as well as those of our children and families. But many of those decisions are complex, confusing and made harder by the fact that we live in a world which is filled with options and opinions that can feel overwhelming.What’s Right for Me? is an invaluable bo...
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    19,64 €

  • In Your Own Time
    Sara Wickham
    Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more 'at risk' categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overd...
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    18,14 €

  • Anti-D Explained
    Sara Wickham
    Fifty years ago, we learned that giving a medicine called Anti-D to childbearing women with rhesus negative blood could help protect their future babies from an age-old disease. But the same research which showed this also raised some tantalising questions, to which we still don’t know all the answers. Today, rhesus negative women are offered Anti-D at several points during the...
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    17,63 €

  • Group B Strep Explained
    Sara Wickham
    Group B strep (or GBS) is a common and usually harmless type of bacteria, but it can very occasionally cause serious disease in newborn babies. Many pregnant women are offered screening and prevention for GBS, but there are pros and cons to this, as the main preventative (or prophylactic) measure involves women having antibiotics given to them by intravenous drip in labour. In ...
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    17,74 €

  • Birthing Your Placenta
    Nadine Edwards / Sara Wickham
    Have you ever thought about how the placenta is born? Did you know that there are actually three different approaches to the birth of the placenta within maternity care? Are you aware that research has shown significant advantages to the baby in taking a slower approach, however the placenta is born. Or that there is plenty of evidence to support a more natural approach for hea...
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    17,90 €

  • Inducing Labour
    Sara Wickham
    When is it better to induce labour than to let a woman’s body or baby decide the best time for birth? What are the pros and cons of waiting and of being induced? What about after the due date? When the baby is thought to be bigger than average? When the woman is older? If she had IVF? Or when her waters have broken earlier than usual?Induction of labour is an increasingly commo...
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    17,78 €

  • Vitamin K and the Newborn
    Sara Wickham
    What is Vitamin K? Why is it offered to all newborn babies? Does my baby need it? Should we agree to an injection, oral supplements or decide to do neither? Are there alternatives? Can we postpone the decision? Are some babies more at risk, and why?Vitamin K has been routinely recommended for newborn babies for several decades, and many parents are happy for their child to be g...
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    18,03 €