Birth Options

What a summer! Great work by our medical student colleague Vicky illuminating how we should communicate risk....100 icon arrays seems to be both understood and preferred. So much more to learn but we're off to a great start! Thanks @Options_Study obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Delighted that our caesarean birth core information set paper is in the BJOG’s health equity issue today doi.org/10.1111/1471-0…

Are you having conversations about birth choices? Our newly released Vaginal Birth Core Information Set can support these discussions. doi.org/10.1111/1471-0… @Options_Study @STORK_Research

Is your partner pregnant, planning a pregnancy or recently had a baby? We need your help to complete a two stage online survey on information about instrumental birth. You can enter a £25 prize draw. redcap.link/InstrumentalBi…

Are you pregnant, planning a pregnancy or recently had a baby? We need your help to complete a two-stage online survey on information about instrumental birth You can enter a £25 prize draw. redcap.link/InstrumentalBi…

Are you a nurse, midwife, hospital doctor, GP or community pharmacist? Do you have a role in maternal vaccinations during pregnancy? Do you care for newborns at risk of respiratory infections who are too young to be vaccinated? Please complete the survey: redcap.link/MATProtect

Before and after birth women say they need similar antenatal information about interventions during birth including induction of labour and instrumental birth. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…

Do you support women in making choices about vaginal birth? We need you to tell us what you think of communication of risk, especially uncommon ones, within maternity care.  You can enter a prize draw for 1 of four £25 vouchers. For more info: redcap.link/riskcertaintyi…

Are you pregnant, planning a pregnancy, recently had a baby or a partner? We need your help to tell us what you think of communication of risks, especially uncommon ones, within maternity care. You can enter a prize draw for 1 of four £25 vouchers. For more info: redcap.link/riskcertaintyi…

Are you pregnant, planning a pregnancy or recently had a baby? Please tell us what information you need to make decisions about instrumental birth. Email: options@liverpool.ac.uk for more information. You may win a £25 voucher. redcap.link/OptionsStakeho…

Are you a healthcare professional who works with pregnant women? We are looking for participants in an online survey to tell us what information women need about instrumental birth. Email: options@liverpool.ac.uk redcap.link/OptionsStakeho… You may win a £25 voucher!

Do you live in the United Kingdom and have had raised blood pressure, pre-eclampsia or gestational diabetes in any of your pregnancies in the last 5 years? Click the link to complete this survey…. redcap.link/PROMOTEUK #preeclampsia #WomensHealth #gestationaldiabetes

Public patient involvement groups are a key part of our women’s health research. It is vital that we involve women in the ongoing work to improve the obstetric care they receive. Most recently, we went down to Granby Children’s centre to host a meeting as part of the Options Study. Thank you to all of the incredible women involved and Granby for hosting us! #obstetrics #womenshealth #pregnancy #PPI

Very excited to see our @Options_Study work presented @BlairBellRS @RCObsGyn @NIHRresearch @NIHRinvolvement @LiverpoolWomens @LivUniResearch @LivuniILCaMS

Excellent presentation Ben! Sharing the Caesarean Birth Core Information set results @BlairBellRS @RCObsGyn meeting! @Options_Study @STORK_Group @NIHRresearch @NIHRinvolvement @LivUniResearch @LivuniILCaMS

We are so pleased to share the newest paper from our research group exploring what happens to women's expectations and knowledge around birth following antenatal education. Does it precipitate a mismatch between birth expectations and experiences? #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">…pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Thank you to @HealthFdn for the support to develop the @acematernity class bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/13/2/e… using the findings from focus groups reported in BMC this week.

I'm delighted that our paper doi.org/10.1186/s12884… about antenatal education is out! We found that it can contribute to an expectation-experience mismatch. A national antenatal education curriculum is needed!

I just listened to my amazing colleagues discuss the mirena coil on their new podcast between two ovaries! Really worth a listen for some mirena myth busting open.spotify.com/episode/4lHwgo…

Do you live in the UK? Have you had a baby here in the last 5 years? Follow the link below to help us understand the care which is currently received for raised blood pressure, pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes and how it can be improved redcap.liverpool.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9NP… #gestationaldiabetes #preeclampsia #hypertension #pregnancy #gdm