Giving Birth and meeting your baby

Categories:Resources
by DoulaD |
on September 21, 2020

Making informed decisions

PBM – Um, how the hec do I make ‘evidence based birth choices’?!
AIMS – Am I allowed?
Maternity Action – Know your rights
Birthrights – Informed Consent in Childbirth: Making Rights into Reality
Rethinking consent and power in the birth room
Understanding and improving the communication of risk relating to pregnancy

Place of birth – your choices

The Birthplace cohort study
AIMS – Choosing your Place of Birth
Where should you have your baby?

Birth plans and preferences

Home Birth Plans
The Positive Birth Book Visual Birth Plan (free download)
NHS Choices – digital birth plan
NHS Improving me – digital Birth Plan
A Family – Centered Cesarean Birth Plan
Which? Birth Plan

Birth – in all its forms

Vaginal Birth
Caesarean Birth
Breech Birth
Induction of labour
Meeting your baby and options for the third stage of labour

National guidelines for maternity care

All NICE info on pregnancy
NIHR Management of labour evidence collection
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – Patient information

Pain management for labour and birth

General overviews
TENs
Water
Movement and position
Gas and Air (Entenox)
Aromatherapy
Breathing
Epidural and Spinal block
Touch and Massage
Hypnobirthing
Rebozo
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