Web Journey: Normal birth

BirthChoiceUK

http://www.birthchoiceuk.com/Professionals/index.html

Which: Birth Environments 

http://www.which.co.uk/birth-choice/environments

Which: Water Birth

http://www.which.co.uk/birth-choice/articles/using-water-in-labour#video

RCM:

https://www.rcm.org.uk/achieving-normality-0

http://www.rcmnormalbirth.org.uk/home/

http://www.rcmnormalbirth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Normaalbrthsdata.png

RCM: Consensus Statement

https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/NormalBirthConsensusStatement.pdf

RCM: Midwives thinking on home births

https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/UPLOADSurveyofMidwives'th~homebirth%20221111%20JM2_0.pdf

RCM: Survey of positions for labour and birth

https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/Birth%20position%20Report%20FINAL%20Aug2011_0.pdf

RCM: Report of a survey exploring the position of midwives’ hands during the birth of the baby’s head

https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/Perineal%20Audit%20Report%202014_0.pdf

RCM: Why Normal Birth is Important

https://www.rcm.org.uk/why-normal-births-and-normalisation-of-the-process-is-so-important

NICE Guidance:

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg190/chapter/1-recommendations

NHS: Promoting Normal Birth (case studies)

http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/mr-high-impact-promoting-normal-birth-2010.pdf

NHS: Statistical Release Breastfeeding Initiation & Breastfeeding Prevalence

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/Breastfeeding-1415Q3.pdf

Breast Feeding:

http://www.biologicalnurturing.com

Properties of Colour:

http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours

Epigenetics: What Makes Us Who We Are? - Begin Before Birth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AfBsTAQ8zs

An investigation of the relationship between the caseload model of midwifery for socially disadvantaged women and childbirth outcomes using routine data – A retrospective, observational study: Hannah Rayment-Jones, RM, MSc

http://www.midwiferyjournal.com/article/S0266-6138(15)00024-8/pdf

Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services:

http://www.aims.org.uk

What shall I eat and drink in labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_DE67gzKc

Ketosis during labour

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004230/PREG_interventions-for-ketosis-during-labour

UK doulas 

http://doula.org.uk

British Doulas 

http://www.britishdoulas.co.uk

Are women with a fear of childbirth being supported? 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20348463

Victims of abuse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3gyy

60 second doulas

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0EWUTxE7zoqaRVBGv8cDzA

Birth Trauma Association

http://www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/weblinks.htm

Dignity in Childbirth

http://www.birthrights.org.uk/campaigns/dignity-in-childbirth/dignity-survey/

http://www.birthrights.org.uk/advice/factsheets/

Fear

http://midwifethinking.com/2013/03/27/feel-the-fear-and-birth-anyway/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WeGuzqpxM

Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing

http://childbirthconnection.org/pdfs/CC.NPWF.HPoC.Report.2015.pdf

Review of: Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing

http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/sarah-buckley-educators/

Birthplace in England research programme

https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/birthplace/reports

http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7400

The Essential Ingredient. Doula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u792CxDT7cE

What is it like to be a birth Partner?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxiaRfxXsQ

Supporting and Involving Women’s Birth Companions

https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/Supporting%20and%20Involving%20Women's%20Birth%20Companions.pdf

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

http://www.kathleenkendall-tackett.com/portfolio.html

http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/author/kathleen-kendall-tackett/

Placenta Position

http://www.placentajournal.org/article/S0143-4004(14)00918-7/fulltext

Waterbirth Lectures/Study days & Professional Midwifery Advice

http://www.midwifeexpert.co.uk/

Cord Clamping

http://activebirthcentre.com/breastfeeding/dont-clamp-the-cord/

VEs

http://midwifethinking.com/2015/05/02/vaginal-examinations-a-symptom-of-a-cervix-centric-birth-culture/

How Babies Participate

http://www.birth-institute.com/birth-videos/team-effort-how-babies-participate-in-the-birth-process

Working to Harmonize Biomedical and Traditional Approaches to Care

http://www.birth-institute.com/student-spotlight/working-to-harmonize-biomedical-and-traditional-approaches

Trends in Midwifery & Obstetrics over the past 30 years

http://www.oneworldbirth.net/videos/trends-in-midwifery-obstetrics-over-the-past-30-years/

Acknowledgments:

Anglia Ruskin University. Advanced Midwifery Practice Module. Promoting Normality. Claire Hooks and Louise Jenkins.(2013 - 2014)

Websites accessed 29th March 2015