Alcohol misconceptions

Article Abstract:

Research has established a connection between heavy alcohol ingestion and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Acute cases may display low birth weight, microcephaly, micrognathia and other facial deformities. Hyperactivity, poor concentration and behavioural disorders also characterise FAS. Less severe cases may demonstrate fetal alcohol effects (FAE). However, such disabilities are preventable through education. Professionals should emphasise the dangers of alcohol consumption before and after conception.

Health aspects, Analysis, Abnormalities, Fetus, Alcohol, Ethanol, Fetal alcohol syndrome

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Teaching what comes naturally

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Lack of time and poor staff levels often mean that midwives spend too little time helping first time mothers to learn the art of breastfeeding, and this in turn causes many mothers to give up breastfeeding, feeling that they have failed. The midwife should stay with the mother until she is confident about breastfeeding, but this rarely happens, as the midwife feels guilty if she is not doing something active. It is also possible that some midwives are not fully committed to breastfeeding.

Methods, Breast feeding

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What is meant by woman-centred care?: woman-centred care is a fashionable phrase

Article Abstract:

Woman-centred care has become a fashionable phrase, suggesting that such care had not previously been provided. However midwives would refute this, claiming that midwifery is a woman-centred caring profession. A working group on midwifery services in Scotland, focused on maternity services as an area of wide variations in clinical care, and roadshows helped to spread information. The good-practice days showed the wide range of ideas making up woman-centred care.

Practice, Scotland, Midwives, Women's health services

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