April 2001.
Chairs : Gillian Fletcher, President of the National Childbirth Trust, and Roxanne Chamberlain, National Childbirth Trust.
Epidemiology, atypical presentations, and management of the occipito-posterior position.
Professor Wendy Savage, retired obstetrician.
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Physiological birth in the year 2001 is abnormal birth. A discussion of the evidence and its implications.
Dr. Soo Downe, Principal Lecturer on Research, University of Central Lancashire.
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Fear of labour and emergency caesarian section: Is there a relationship?
Dr. Pauline Slade. Psychologist, Clinical Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield.
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Active Birth - more than a matter of position.
Ms Alice Charlwood, Active Birth teacher, Wiltshire.
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Active management of labour.
Mr. Michael Robson, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Wycombe General Hospital.
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Fetal pain and stress.
Dr. Vivette Glover, Director of the Fetal and Neonatal Stress Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics, Imperial College School of Medicine.