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"Engaging with birth stories in pregnancy: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of women's experiences across two generations".

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

"What matters to someone who matters to me": using media campaigns with young people to prevent interpersonal violence and abuse.

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

'She sort of shines': midwives' accounts of 'good' midwifery and 'good' leadership

scientific article

'She would help me from the heart': an ethnography of Egyptian women in labour

scientific article

'We make them feel special': The experiences of voluntary sector workers supporting asylum seeking and refugee women during pregnancy and early motherhood

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

A Survey of University Students' Preferences for Midwifery Care and Community Birth Options in 8 High-Income Countries

scientific article published on 19 January 2020

A computational fluid dynamics modelling of maternal-fetal heat exchange and blood flow in the umbilical cord

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

A cross-country survey of attitudes toward childbirth technologies and interventions among university students

scientific article published in August 2018

A hero's tale of childbirth

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

A metasynthesis of midwives' experience of hospital practice in publicly funded settings: compliance, resistance and authenticity

scientific article

A prospective randomised trial on the effect of position in the passive second stage of labour on birth outcome in nulliparous women using epidural analgesia

scientific article published in June 2004

A systematic review of the nature of support for breast-feeding adolescent mothers

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Alternative versus conventional institutional settings for birth

scientific article

Alternative versus conventional institutional settings for birth

scientific article (publication date: 8 September 2010)

An ethnographic study of the interaction between philosophy of childbirth and place of birth

scientific article published on 08 November 2020

Antenatal care trial interventions: a systematic scoping review and taxonomy development of care models

scientific article

Appraising the quality of qualitative research

scientific article

Are There Epigenetic Oxytocin-Mediated Effects on the Mother and Infant during Physiological Childbirth?

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Asking Different Questions: A Call to Action for Research to Improve the Quality of Care for Every Woman, Every Child

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Bereaved parents' experience of stillbirth in UK hospitals: a qualitative interview study

scientific article

Beyond evidence-based medicine: complexity and stories of maternity care

scientific article published in February 2010

COVID-19 and maternal mental health: Are we getting the balance right?

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Campaign for Normal Birth. Confidence through support

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Campaign for normal birth. Trust and expertise

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Caring for women making unconventional birth choices: A meta-ethnography exploring the views, attitudes, and experiences of midwives

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Childbirth is what we believe it is

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Correction: What matters to women during childbirth: A systematic qualitative review.

scientific article

Cost analysis of the CTLB Study, a multitherapy antenatal education programme to reduce routine interventions in labour.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Creating a collaborative culture in maternity care

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Cross-cultural development and psychometric evaluation of a measure to assess fear of childbirth prior to pregnancy

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Discrimination against childbearing Romani women in maternity care in Europe: a mixed-methods systematic review.

scientific article

Eating a light diet during labour

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Effectiveness of respectful care policies for women using routine intrapartum services: a systematic review

scientific article

Emotions and support needs following a distressing birth: Scoping study with pregnant multigravida women in North-West England

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

Ethno-Specific Risk Factors for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Findings from the Born in Bradford Cohort Study ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Expert intrapartum maternity care: a meta-synthesis

scientific article published on January 2007

FIGO consensus guidelines on intrapartum fetal monitoring: Intermittent auscultation

scientific article published on 01 October 2015

Factors that influence the provision of good‐quality routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis of the views and experiences of maternity care providers

Factors that influence the provision of good‐quality routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis of the views and experiences of maternity care providers.

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Factors that influence the uptake of routine antenatal services by pregnant women: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Findings from the Italian Babies Born Better Survey

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Focusing on what works for person-centred maternity care

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

From grief, guilt pain and stigma to hope and pride - a systematic review and meta-analysis of mixed-method research of the psychosocial impact of stillbirth

scientific article

Glancing beyond or being confined to routines: labour ward midwives' responses to change as a result of action research

scientific article published on 6 April 2013

Home-like versus conventional institutional settings for birth

scientific article

Humanities in the undergraduate medical and midwifery curriculum: a descriptive Italian comparative study

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Improvement of maternal and newborn health through midwifery

scientific article

Inequalities and stillbirth in the UK: a meta-narrative review

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Intermittent auscultation fetal monitoring during labour: A systematic scoping review to identify methods, effects, and accuracy

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Interventions targeted at health professionals to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections: a qualitative evidence synthesis

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Interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections in healthy women and babies

scientific article published in The Lancet

Investigation of the use of thermography for research and clinical applications in pregnant women

Is maternity care evidence based or interpretation driven? Place of birth as an exemplar

scientific article published in September 2008

Is society being reshaped on a microbiological and epigenetic level by the way women give birth?

scientific article published on August 2014

Length of labour in mothers and their daughters: A matched cohort study

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Maternal health post-2015

scientific article published in The Lancet

Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during physiological childbirth - a systematic review with implications for uterine contractions and central actions of oxytocin

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Meta-synthesis method for qualitative research: a literature review

scientific article

Midwifery and Quality Care

Midwifery and quality care: findings from a new evidence-informed framework for maternal and newborn care

scientific article published on 22 June 2014

Midwifery-led antenatal care models: mapping a systematic review to an evidence-based quality framework to identify key components and characteristics of care

scientific article

Midwives and the fetal nuchal cord: a survey of practices and perceptions

scientific article published on January 2007

Moral and mental health challenges faced by maternity staff during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Negative impressions of childbirth in a North-West England student population

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

New insights into maternity care design and delivery: editorial commentary

scientific article published on 13 September 2018

Non-clinical interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean section targeted at organisations, facilities and systems: Systematic review of qualitative studies

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Non-clinical interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections: WHO recommendations

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Not-patient and not-visitor: a metasynthesis fathers' encounters with pregnancy, birth and maternity care

scientific article published on 06 August 2011

Optimal outcomes and women's positive pregnancy experience: a comparison between the World Health Organization guideline and recommendations in European national antenatal care guidelines

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Optimal settings for childbirth

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Optimising the use of caesarean section: a generic formative research protocol for implementation preparation

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Post-mortem examination after stillbirth: views of UK-based practitioners

scientific article published on 6 March 2012

Postpartum hemorrhage care bundles to improve adherence to guidelines: A WHO technical consultation

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Preference for cesarean section in young nulligravid women in eight OECD countries and implications for reproductive health education

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Preventing domestic abuse for children and young people (PEACH): a mixed knowledge scoping review

Preventing domestic abuse for children and young people: A review of school-based interventions.

scientific article

Protocol for the development of a salutogenic intrapartum core outcome set (SIPCOS).

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Provision and uptake of routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES) for Guidelines: Paper 1 - Using qualitative evidence synthesis to inform guideline scope and develop qualitative findings statements

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES) for Guidelines: Paper 2 - Using qualitative evidence synthesis findings to inform evidence-to-decision frameworks and recommendations

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES) for Guidelines: Paper 3 - Using qualitative evidence syntheses to develop implementation considerations and inform implementation processes

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Rebirthing midwifery

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Reducing routine interventions during labour and birth: first, do no harm

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Reflections on The Lancet series on midwifery

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Response to Critique of Cochrane systematic review of home-like setting for birth in the International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Routine interventions in childbirth before and after initiation of an Action Research project

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

Routine vaginal examinations for assessing progress of labour to improve outcomes for women and babies at term

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2012)

Routine vaginal examinations for assessing progress of labour to improve outcomes for women and babies at term

scientific article

Second stage of labour: challenging the use of directed pushing

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Setting the stage for health: Salutogenesis in midwifery professional knowledge in three European countries

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Skin care in the well term newborn: two systematic reviews

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Stillbirths: economic and psychosocial consequences

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Sustaining quality midwifery care in a pandemic and beyond

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Systematic mixed-methods review of interventions, outcomes and experiences for imprisoned pregnant women

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Taxonomy for complexity theory in the context of maternity care

scientific article published on 09 June 2015

The AEDUCATE Collaboration. Comprehensive antenatal education birth preparation programmes to reduce the rates of caesarean section in nulliparous women. Protocol for an individual participant data prospective meta-analysis

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

The EPIIC hypothesis: Intrapartum effects on the neonatal epigenome and consequent health outcomes ⬇️

scientific article published on February 12, 2013

The UCLan community engagement and service user support (Comensus) project: valuing authenticity, making space for emergence

scientific article published on December 2007

The childbirth experience: A systematic review of predictors and outcomes

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

The development and application of a new tool to assess the adequacy of the content and timing of antenatal care

scientific article

The effect of medical and operative birth interventions on child health outcomes in the first 28 days and up to 5 years of age: A linked data population-based cohort study.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

The feasibility and acceptability of using the Mother-Generated Index (MGI) as a Patient Reported Outcome Measure in a randomised controlled trial of maternity care

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

The importance of evaluating primary midwifery care for improving the health of women and infants

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The initiation of labour at term gestation: Physiology and practice implications

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

The relationship between antenatal care and preterm birth: the importance of content of care

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

The role of midwifery and other international insights for maternity care in the United States: An analysis of four countries

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

The use of salutogenesis theory in empirical studies of maternity care for healthy mothers and babies

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Thermal imaging applications in neonatal care: a scoping review

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Thermal imaging of the fetus: An empirical feasibility study

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Turning local knowledge and experience into innovative tools for quality care during labor and childbirth: The BOLD project experience

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: The EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Understanding how midwives employed by the National Health Service facilitate women's alternative birthing choices: Findings from a feminist pragmatist study

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Unexpected consequences: women's experiences of a self-hypnosis intervention to help with pain relief during labour

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Value based maternal and newborn care requires alignment of adequate resources with high value activities

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Waiting for permission to enter the labour ward world: first time parents' experiences of the first encounter on a labour ward

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

What matters to women and healthcare providers in relation to interventions for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage: A qualitative systematic review

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What matters to women during childbirth: A systematic qualitative review.

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

What matters to women in the postnatal period: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Which level of risk justifies routine induction of labor for healthy women?

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Why do women not use antenatal services in low- and middle-income countries? A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Widening the trauma discourse: the link between childbirth and experiences of abuse

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Women's and communities' views of targeted educational interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean section: a qualitative evidence synthesis

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Women's experiences of pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain relief methods for labour and childbirth: a qualitative systematic review

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Women's psychological experiences of physiological childbirth: a meta-synthesis

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Women's, partners' and healthcare providers' views and experiences of assisted vaginal birth: a systematic mixed methods review

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

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