Unexpected Home Birth

Sometimes babies arrive more quickly than expected; even first babies occasionally do this although it is more usually a second or third baby. It is something we are often asked about in our antenatal courses: “What do we do if it’s too late to go to the hospital and...

Informed Decision Making – Does research help us?

 At Christmas, the British Medical Journal offers us a satirical, and often very funny, mock up research study. These are always beautifully written, so that at first glance one almost believes them to be real. Last Christmas the study was entitled:  “Parachute use to...