Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
This podcast aims to discuss and muse a different birth topic every month, with our hosts, who collectively have over 80 years of midwifery experience. For some episodes we will be inviting special guests to contribute towards our conversation.
We do not intend any of our discussions to act as medical advice, and all of our considerations are merely our own thoughts and feelings on that particular subject, utilising our collective experience and knowledge. Our aim is to bring together the wider community of birth, combining clinical experience with the felt experience in a hope to demystify pregnancy and birth, and share information and evidence.
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Title music by Rojj from Fugue
Supported by The University of Hull
Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
Episode 5: Induction of Labour
This episode of Tea & Toast: Talking Birth looks at one of the most common interventions in modern maternity care - induction of labour. We consider how and why labour might be induced and consider the experiences of Leanne, who had her first labour induced, and Sarah, a third year student midwife, and how she has found offering and undertaking inductions.
References
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https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/item/beware-the-dead-baby-card
de Vaan, M.D.T., ten Eikelder, M.L.G., Jozwiak, M., Palmer, K.R., Davies‐Tuck, M., Bloemenkamp, K.W.M., Mol, B.W.J.& Boulvain, M. Mechanical methods for induction of labour. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019, Issue 10. Art. No.: CD001233. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001233.pub3. Available online: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001233.pub3/full
Hall, W.A., Tomkinson, J. & Tomkinson, M.C.K. (2011) Canadian Care Providers' and Pregnant Women's Approaches to Managing Birth: Minimizing Risk While Maximizing Integrity Qualitative Health Research DOI: 10.1177/1049732311424292 Published online 22 September 2011
Middleton, P., Shepherd, E., Morris, J., Crowther, C.A. & Gomersall, J.C. Induction of labour at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD004945. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004945.pub5.Available online: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004945.pub5/full
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2008, updated 2017) Clinical guideline CG70: Inducing Labour. London: NICE. Available online: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg70
Wickham, S. (2019) Induction and synchronised swimming: Mary Cronk words of wisdom [Blog post] Available online: https://www.sarawickham.com/quotes-and-shares/induction-and-synchronised-swimming/