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Loving our new ceiling lights.

Brilliant perinatal team working across the South West

Excellent webinar tonight.

Thanks Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust for supporting our bid to purchase a LifeStart resuscitare. Great MDT preterm caesarean birth SIM this morning, including optimal cord management and maternal cuddles @rchtmaternity PERIPrem

Brilliant summary of the complexities.

Monitoring May 2022 ! A great programme thank you Sarah blackwell Catherine for pulling it all together. Links will sent to all our team #PatientSafety #safermaterintycare @rchtmaternity Josie dodgson Helen LeGrys TamaraMidwifeRCH Leann Morris Sarah Harvey-Hurst Trudie

What an amazing day; learning the complexities of providing maternity care on a small island. The inter professional support for the midwife and their commitment to development to ensure patient safety was outstanding.

Maternal morbidity after preterm premature rupture of membranes at <24 weeks’ gestation ow.ly/l8Cb50IQIET

Theoretical concerns about polycythaemia in small babies do not justify early cord clamping. More evidence for #optimalcordmanagement for all neonates

Huge thank you to Dr Shawn Walker, an informative day. Excited to move forward in developing a breech team @rchtmaternity to provide consistent, informed counselling and safe care to women/birthing people with a breech presentation.

Lactate is >2mmol/L in almost half of women in labour and the puerperium, potentially limiting its utility for making decisions about antibiotics. obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Second-stage C-section more than doubles the risk of preterm delivery in a subsequent pregnancy, and the risk is greater still if this full-dilatation C-section follows a prolonged second stage of labour. obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

AJOG Presents: Low-dose aspirin use in pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth: a Swedish register-based cohort study ow.ly/5Ffi50MWqFf

In Dec 22 the CQC inspected maternity services provided by RCHT. Below is a quote from the report. We could not do this without our wonderful volunteers & service users taking the time to share their experience with us. Your voice is so valuable & makes a difference. Thank you.

Pregnancy can predict long-term health. It's well established that gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia predispose to long-term morbidity. This long-term study shows pre-term labour is also associated with a significant increase in all-cause mortality. obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Study finds about 40% of infants exposed to early antenatal corticosteroids were born at term, with associated adverse outcomes, highlighting the need for caution when considering antenatal corticosteroids. Includes a visual abstract #BMJInfographic bmj.com/content/382/bm…

“In women with one prior preterm event, both history-indicated cerclage and ultrasound surveillance are appropriate management options. The majority of women undergoing ultrasound surveillance did not require a cerclage.” in.. Natalie Suff King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Out today: Effective and simple interventions to improve outcomes for preterm infants worldwide: The FIGO PremPrep‐5 initiative - Hall - 2024 - International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics - Wiley Online Library obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ij…

Cesarean delivery is associated with lower neonatal mortality among breech pregnancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis of preterm deliveries ≤32 weeks of gestation ow.ly/OUgI50UcAg1