Sarah Johnson

“Rydahl et al (2019) also set out to look more thoughtfully at which studies should be included in a meta-analysis. They focused on recent studies (within the past 20 years) which compared healthy (or low risk) women having induction at 41 and 42 weeks. Again, they found no difference in perinatal mortality, morbidity and caesarean section rates. “Induction prior to post-term was associated with few beneficial outcomes and several adverse outcomes. This draws attention to possible iatrogenic effects affecting large numbers of low-risk women in contemporary maternity care. According to the World Health Organization, expected benefits from a medical intervention must outweigh potential harms. Hence, our results do not support the widespread use of routine induction prior to post-term (41+0–6 gestational weeks).” (Rydahl et al 2019: 170).”
― Sara Wickham, In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop

“Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing”
― Frank Field, Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

“I’m walking this over to you, I’m talking to you, which means this is important.”
― Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

“I want to lift the lid and demand answers from my father to questions I don’t even know how to ask.”
― Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum