COVID and maternity care
Curtin study explores impact of COVID on people involved in maternity care: Doctors, midwives and midwifery students were more concerned…
Reproductive Health
COVID-19 infection in pregnancy not linked with still birth or baby death
COVID-19 infection in pregnancy is not associated with stillbirth or early neonatal death, according to a new study. However the…
Maternal nurse home visits improve mothers’ mental health
New research has shown disadvantaged mothers’ mental health and wellbeing improved after regular maternal and child health nurse home visits…
Covid IVF delay in has biggest impact on women over 40
Delay to IVF treatment brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic could reduce the amount of live births in women over…
Pregnancy: New national guidance on drinking
As thousands of people are committing to giving up alcohol during Dry January, research from a midwifery lecturer at Northumbria…
Wireless temperature monitoring in labour
New study concludes continuous wireless monitoring of a mother’s temperature during labour promises to be more effective than manual measurements…
My midwifery trip to Africa
My midwifery trip to Africa: elephants, lions and delivering six babies: Trip to Tanzania was privilege, says midwifery graduate Aneeqa…
CAP-COVID study: pandemic pregnancy
UCL announces 2nd phase of CAP-COVID study: How has the pandemic impacted pregnant women in their 1st Trimester? The CAP-COVID…
New drug improves fertility in women with reproductive health problems
A drug that acts via the natural ‘kisspeptin’ hormone system in the body has the potential to treat reproductive health…
Caesarean-born babies at increased risk of hospitalisation
Caesarean-born babies are at increased risk during early childhood of being hospitalised due to an infection, according to a new…