Curtin study explores impact of COVID on people involved in maternity care: Doctors, midwives and midwifery students were more concerned about their exposure to COVID-19 while at work than the women receiving maternity care in the same settings, while the partners of those women reported feeling isolated because of changes to the way care was […]
COVID-19 infection in pregnancy is not associated with stillbirth or early neonatal death, according to a new study. However the research, from over 4000 pregnant women with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, also found women who had a positive test were more likely to have a premature birth. The research, led by scientists from Imperial College […]
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New research has shown disadvantaged mothers’ mental health and wellbeing improved after regular maternal and child health nurse home visits during pregnancy, continuing up until the child turned two. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Pediatrics, found the benefits from maternal and child health nurse visits to new mothers were still evident […]
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Delay to IVF treatment brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic could reduce the amount of live births in women over 40 by almost a quarter. COVID 19 triggered a worldwide suspension of fertility treatments and in the UK between March and May and a reduced capacity from June onwards. A new study from the University […]
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As thousands of people are committing to giving up alcohol during Dry January, research from a midwifery lecturer at Northumbria University has been included in new national guidance on the harms of consuming alcohol both before and during pregnancy. In the past, national guidelines had suggested that pregnant women should avoid alcohol, but that if […]
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New study concludes continuous wireless monitoring of a mother’s temperature during labour promises to be more effective than manual measurements for indicating the risk of early onset sepsis in newborn babies. A new study has concluded that the use of a continuous wireless patient monitoring platform which monitors a mother’s temperature during labour could aid […]
My midwifery trip to Africa: elephants, lions and delivering six babies: Trip to Tanzania was privilege, says midwifery graduate Aneeqa Hussain has worked hard to get where she is today, at one point going back to college for a year to secure the grades she needed in order to continue her university studies. She graduates […]
UCL announces 2nd phase of CAP-COVID study: How has the pandemic impacted pregnant women in their 1st Trimester? The CAP-COVID study, designed by healthcare professionals at University College London (UCL), launched on 25 May 2020. Since then over 5,000 women across the U.K. have taken part in the online survey, sharing their experiences during the […]
A drug that acts via the natural ‘kisspeptin’ hormone system in the body has the potential to treat reproductive health problems in women, according to a new study. Twenty-four women were injected with a drug called MVT-602 which targets the kisspeptin system to stimulate reproductive hormones that affect fertility, sexual development and menstruation. The naturally occurring […]
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Caesarean-born babies are at increased risk during early childhood of being hospitalised due to an infection, according to a new study of over seven million births from four countries. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Aarhus University and published in PLOS Medicine, found a small but consistent increase in the absolute risk of infection-related hospitalisation […]
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