Midwifery Matters Spring 2006 Issue 108
Content
Editorial
Wigan Group 2
Articles from Wigan
The Wigan Home Birth Group Jayne Halton 3
12 Step Guide to setting up a Group 5
Waterbirth at Home Lynn Seddon 5
Service Improvement award 6
Woman-led Homebirth Group 7
Lavinia’s Story: VBAC at Home 8
Lesley’s Story: Why I Offered an HBAC 9
Risk Obsession on the Labour Ward Lesley Price 12
Cervical Reversion, Regression Lois Bowman 14
Caseload Midwifery: A review Sue Andrews, Louise Brown, Lois Bowman and Lesley Price 15
Nurse/midwife versus Direct Entry Debi Brunt 21
From Doula to Student Midwife Janet Naylor 22
Articles from elsewhere
Midwives should not offer women choice in childbirth Pat Lindsay
Choosing a Hospital Birth Michelle Barnes 24
Prolonged Prelabour Rupture of Membranes Katherine Hales 27
Business
National Meeting report 26
Conference reports 3
News & Views
letters 27
nettalk, noise 35
local groups 46
One Mother One Midwife 46