Category Archives: Research

Premature Rupture of Membranes at Term

By The Midwife | Published: March 3, 2007

I’ve been meaning to post this post for ages, but was never able to finish it during the school year last year. All of this comes from the research project that I worked on last year for 2 semesters as part of my research class, and even though I had to radically alter the goal [...]

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Newsworthy

By The Midwife | Published: February 26, 2007

So, I’ve been a bit incommunicado thanks to the intensity of my clinical schedule, and the fact that last week was our first exam, and I was busy spending every spare minute studying for it (I’m very pleased to report that I did well on my exam, despite my deepest concerns regarding my sincere lack [...]

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Didelphic triumphs

By The Midwife | Published: December 22, 2006

On vacation, just popping in briefly (the beloved boy just looked over my shoulder at what I’m doing and said “I can’t believe you’re posting while on holiday”). Uh, yeah. So, anyway, the semester is over. It was pretty intense at the end, with three hefty exams one right after the other: our neonatology final, [...]

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Selected Bibliography on Birth Centers

By The Midwife | Published: December 8, 2006

This is in follow-up to last week’s post about ACOG’s recent new policy on out-of-hospital birth. The American Association of Birth Centers wrote a detailed and very well researched response, and included a 2 page selected bibliography on the safety and efficacy of birth centers at the end of the letter. I thought I’d just [...]

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C-sections: Not so benign after all, eh?

By The Midwife | Published: September 10, 2006

Two studies have recently come out which highlight the risks of cesarean birth for both mothers and babies, particularly primary cesareans with no medical indication. A recent study printed in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care found that neonatal mortality rates were higher in babies born by cesarean, even after the statistics had been adjusted for [...]

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Reassuring women with abnormal paps

By The Midwife | Published: May 2, 2006

My friend and I spent a fair chunk of time this morning going over the management of abnormal pap smears. How ironic, then, to come home and turn on my computer and find this story on the BBC website about the high levels of anxiety women feel when they’re told they have an abnormal pap [...]

Also posted in Gynecology, Primary Care, Women's Health | 1 Comment

Research blues

By The Midwife | Published: September 16, 2005

I realized yesterday, while attending my first research class, that I have done my first homework assignment for that class completely wrong. I thought we were supposed to come up with a topic that we wanted to research, i.e. do a literature review of all of the relevant articles out there, and see what’s currently [...]

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Birth as An American Rite of Passage

By The Midwife | Published: August 27, 2005

Davis-Floyd, Robbie. 2003. Birth As An American Rite of Passage (2nd Edition). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. So, I’ve been reading this book pretty much non-stop for the past few weeks, and I have been completely blown away. C o m p l e t e l y. This is the book [...]

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Exciting new homebirth study

By The Midwife | Published: July 8, 2005

Johnson, K.C. and Daviss, B.A. (2005) Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 330: 1416. This study was published in June and is a welcome addition to the homebirth v. hospitals debate which has been raging in this country for years. Some of [...]

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Summer Reading

By The Midwife | Published: May 24, 2005

So, my birthday is just around the corner, and I spent part of today updating my wishlist on Amazon, just in case anyone wanted to check it out (you never know, after all). While there, I noticed that just about every book on my list was a pregnancy or childbirth book. Funny, that. I love [...]

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