Midwife4You

24/11/2025

Honest reflection of the climate midwives are working in and the impact it can have on them, this compounds the impact on patients :-(

11/05/2024

10/05/2024

NEW✨⭐️🌟
Midwife Led Antenatal Classes
Croydon and Caterham
Weds and Thurs 6:30pm-8:30pm
4 week course
Affordable, informative and Relaxed…

👶🏿🤰🏼🤱👶🏽🤰🏽🤱🏽👶🏻🤰🏻🤱🏽
Including everything late pregnancy
Birth Choices
Biomechanics for birth
Infant feeding
Caring for your Newborn
Plus much more…

Contact Lisa for more details
Midwife4You@outlook.com

01/01/2023

Happy New Year
Sending lots of luck and love for 2023 X

03/08/2022

Some new research out yesterday by Stoliar et al 2022 called ‘a national survey of Australian midwives’ birth choices and outcomes’ (its open access so anyone can read it for free) shows that 25% of midwives (1 in 4) want to have a homebirth and that 11.2% actually did. Which is significantly higher than the national average of women who were able to access homebirth services which is 0.4%.

What else did this research find:
- 16.8% of midwives had Caesarean, compared to the national average of 37%
- 45% of midwives accessed continuity of midwifery care compared to the national access to midwifery continuity of care at 17.1%
- 95.8% of midwives had a preference for normal vaginal birth and 66% achieved this

Of the midwives who chose to give birth at home, their reasons for doing so included:
- being able to choose their care provider
- access to continuity of midwifery care
- to limit birth intervention
- they wanted to avoid time pressures, Induction of labour, coercion and the risk agenda of the hospital

98% of these midwives stated that they ‘think there is a higher chance of obstetric emergencies occurring within a hospital setting’

The researchers commented that insider knowledge influenced midwives choices…

*National average stats taken from Australian mothers and babies report

01/08/2022

Due to the unexpected loss of my mum this week, I am taking some time out from birth care.
From September I will be offering antenatal and postnatal support.
Please email if I can help in any way ###

10/06/2022

Posted • WOW 🤩🤩 Simply *INCREDIBLE* water birth footage, captured by ✨

"It’s that smile at the end for me ❤️

Born without unnecessary interventions. This mama knew exactly what she needed to do to bring her rainbow baby earth side."

Try this positive affirmation...
Giving birth is the most wonderful and empowering experience 🌟

Say it out loud and let it sink in. You CAN do this 💖

[Video description: A woman giving birth in a birth pool, which is lit by LED lights.]

08/06/2022

Anytime I post about vitamin K being offered to newborn babies, it’s almost guaranteed that it will generate some responses on the extreme ends of the opinion spectrum.

I don’t know why that happens more with vitamin K than some other topics, but it does.

There are people who believe that any parent who questions or declines vitamin K for their newborn baby is irresponsible, under-informed or worse.

I don’t agree with them.

I support healthy questioning of any drug, treatment or intervention. It’s important to be able to weigh up pros and cons and decide if something is right for us or our babies. Many of my books are based on helping parents understand the evidence so they can do that.

Then there are people who believe that vitamin K (or the other substances that some preparations of vitamin K may contain) is a terribly dangerous substance and should never be given to a baby.

I don’t agree with them either.

All medications and interventions have risks and downsides as well as benefits. But in some situations, for some people, the benefits outweigh the possible downsides.

That’s up to them to decide.

And, as I wrote in my book ‘Vitamin K and the Newborn,’ there often aren’t clear-cut, black-and-white, all-or-nothing answers.

Often, it’s more complicated than that. The answer lies in between the extremes. It’s nuanced, and sometimes it depends.

I realise there’s an irony in my posting this on social media, but sometimes we need to get away from the extreme-focused viewpoints that often exist on social media, so we can understand issues that deserve more than a shouty sentence or two.

If you’d like to find out more about vitamin K, I have an information hub of free resources and a book on this topic. You can find links to both at www.sarawickham.com/vk

Yes, you can share/repost as long as you keep the original pic, text and credit intact. Please do not put Sara’s work/words into your own branding.

03/06/2022

⭐️👶🏼⭐️👶🏾⭐️👶🏿⭐️👶🏼⭐️👶🏾⭐️ D E L A Y E D C O R D C L A M P I N G

Great to see new evidence to support waiting at least 6 minutes when using oxytocin.

Thanks Amanda burleigh] Dr Sara Wickham]

Posted • Amanda burleigh] Posted • Dr Sara Wickham]

These were the key findings:

Research shows that it is safe to wait six minutes before clamping the cord.

(It may be safe to wait longer, and many women choose to do so. But a study can only report what it researched, and six minutes was the average time in this study.)

Waiting longer doesn't increase the chance of phototherapy being needed (for jaundice).

It doesn't matter whether oxytocin is given before or after cord clamping.

Winkler et al (2022). Cord clamping beyond 3 minutes: Neonatal short-term outcomes and maternal postpartum hemorrhage. Birth https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12645

28/05/2022

⭐️B I R T H P O S I T I O N S ⭐️

Just another fab post confirming UPRIGHT positions
have great benefits for you and your baby!

Keep moving mamas! 💕🥰❤️

Thanks

Posted • It’s all in the evidence

Gupta, J. K., Sood, A., Hofmeyr, G. J., et al. (2017). “Position in the second stage of labour for women without epidural anaesthesia.” Cochrane Database Syst Rev 5: