midwifery knowledge

Welcome to a tiny part of the web of midwifery knowledge! This page will take you to a number of sources of midwifery and birth-related knowledge on our site and on the web generally, and to books you might want to look at. If you travel to another page on our site and want to come back here, just click the 'midwifery knowledge' button in the left hand bar. If you've come from another site and want to see this page in our frames, click here and then on 'midwifery knowledge'. The links to other sites will all open in separate windows, so you can click back to this one on your taskbar if you want to return. Happy surfing!

sites with midwifery articles

if you can't find it here, try
netting the evidence
for lots more links!

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midwifery knowledge

Welcome to a tiny part of the web of midwifery knowledge! This page will take you to a number of sources of midwifery and birth-related knowledge on our site and on the web generally, and to books you might want to look at. If you travel to another page on our site and want to come back here, just click the 'midwifery knowledge' button in the left hand bar. If you've come from another site and want to see this page in our frames, click here and then on 'midwifery knowledge'. The links to other sites will all open in separate windows, so you can click back to this one on your taskbar if you want to return. Happy surfing!

sites with midwifery articles ARM midwifery today birthspirit robbie davis-floyd lots more on our links page!		aperitifs... A few of our rants and articles... evidence-informed midwifery critiquing research withwoman articles

The Farmer and the Obstetrician	a few useful stats and documents... Michel Odent's Primal Health Databank Maternity Statistics from Birthchoice UK WHOLIS: WHO Library Database	Heart and Hands

intuition "Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge" loads of articles on intuition awareness and intuition		arts and crafts our birth art pages placenta prints pregnancy art birth diaries placenta prints free knitting patterns for baby clothes!
	if you can't find it here, try netting the evidence for lots more links!
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reviews / meta-analyses Cochrane Collaboration Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Reviews NICE	GET PUBLISHED!	literature searching on the web Medline Science Direct MedWeb Scholarly Google

is there anything missing? feel free to email us with additional suggestions or links!	free online medical journals (some of these you'll need to sign up for, some are free 6 months after publication and a couple have ceased publishing but let you see old articles). British Medical Journal The Lancet Canadian Medical Association Journal New England Journal of Medicine Archives of Family Medicine Journal of Medical Internet Research Science Biomed Central Free Text Journals More free medical journals online... searchable medical journals (free contents listings ~ articles accessible with an ATHENS password) ACOG Clinical Review BJOG (now BJOG: An International Journal...) BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Obstetrics and Gynecology

quantitative research info quantitative research design more on research design and another		qualitative research info bobbi's place the qualitative report loads more qualitative research links
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	health information from a biomedical perspective Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists National Institute of Clinical Excellence The Department of Health RANZCOG

Midwifery Links informed choice leaflets evidence-based midwifery network Jane Munro's article on developing midwifery guidelines

quick links to key research... the papers linked to in this section are research trials or commentaries which support gentle, non-interventive approaches or trusting the body's physiology. some are on sites which ask you to register first ~ you can use the links elsewhere on this page to do that and come back to the links here when you have a password. you might like to print some out and carry them around! anaemia maternal haemoglobin needs to fall during pregnancy and routine administration of iron is unnecessary (1995 research, BMJ) breech breech birth beyond the term breech trial (Maggie Banks, discussion article) cesarean section maternity centre booklet on cesarean section (pdf) home birth homebirth uk has a listing of several research studies misoprostil (cytotec) misoprostil is not a safe option for induction (Marsden Wagner, review article) post-term pregnancy routine induction of labour at 41 weeks ... nonsensus consensus (2002: BJOG) vitamin k why we need a clinical trial for vitamin k (1994: BMJ editorial) ultrasound routine ultrasound does not improve perinatal outcome (1993: NEJM) ultrasound may do more harm than good (Marsden Wagner, review article) we hope this final section will grow as the people who use this page email us when they find articles and studies which could be added here...

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