Yay for Midwives!

October 14, 2008 at 12:42 am | In Birth | 1 Comment
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A systematic review has just been published by the Cochrane Collaboration (highest level of evidence for those not in the know!) on midwifery-led models of care. It showed women who had midwifery-led care were LESS likely to experience:

  • antenatal hospitalisation
  • use of regional anaesthesia
  • episiotomy
  • instrumental delivery

And MORE likely to experience:

  • no analagesia/anaesthesia during labour
  • spontaneous vaginal birth
  • to feel in control of labour and birth
  • be attended in birth by a known midwife
  • initiate breastfeeding

Women randomised to receive midwifery-led care were also less likely to experience fetal loss before 24 weeks and their babies were more likely to have a shorter hospital stay.

Well we knew all that! But now it has passed the inquisition :)

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  1. Hi Heather! Thanks for linking to Birth Ecology blog in your sidebar! I also linked to your blog today. Thanks for all the work you do for mamas and babies! Blessings, Kara

    Comment by Kara — October 29, 2008 #

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