OBJECTIVES Weight-related stereotypes may have a detrimental impact on interactions between midwives and pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) outside the recommended range of 18-30kg/m2. This paper explores the reciprocal construal of midwives and pregnant women with a raised BMI and considers the clinical implications of these constructs. PARTICIPANTS Ten pregnant women with a BMI≥30k...

We read with interest McCance and Cameron’s article reporting the experiences and views of qualified midwives on giving postpartum contraceptive advice in the July 2014 issue of the Journal. We would like to draw readers’ attention to a complementary study that we carried out with final-year student midwives on a 3-year midwifery programme in a UK university. 3 This study reflects McCance and C...

pillow. Her countenance indicated exhaustion, and she did not wish to be disturbed ; preferring, as she said, death to any further interference. Her friends stated that labour pains set in four days before, and that the membranes broke and the waters were discharged thirty hours previous to my visit. The pains having been slight, and the labour having made no advance, midwives of repute were se...

Prior to 2006 Irish midwifery education was available only in the form of postgraduate inhospital training to registered nurses. Since 2006 midwifery education continues to be offered as a postgraduate course but it is also available as a direct entry undergraduate programme in a number of Irish third level institutions. In line with these changes in Irish midwifery education, the National Coun...

OBJECTIVE To learn lessons from a traditional midwifery workforce in Western Kenya. DESIGN With the assistance of an interpreter, qualitative data was collected during in-depth individual and group interviews with traditional midwives. English components of the interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data thematically analysed. SETTING A rural, economically disadvantaged area of Wester...

OBJECTIVE To assess variations in adherence to guidelines for management of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) among midwives. METHODS A multicentre vignette-based study was e-mailed to a random sample of midwives from 145 maternity units in France. They were asked to describe how they would manage the PPH described in 2 case-vignettes. These previously validated case-vignettes described 2 different...

BadRank is a method for detecting spam web sites, based on the premise that a page is spam if it points to another spam page; i.e., the BadRank score of a page is the weighted sum of the BadRank scores of the pages that it links to. BadRank is an important tool in spam detection. We consider the mathematical structure of BadRank, showing how it can be modified to guarantee that the iterates con...