MIDIRS Informed Choice Leaflets

9 Elmdale Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1SL

Tel: 0800 581 009
Web: www.infochoice.org

MIDIRS Informed Choice leaflets offer a systematic review and critical appraisal of the best available scientific evidence. A portfolio of 25 clinically focused topics relating to pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and infancy is available to inform clinical decision making and support best practice in woman-centred maternity care.

25 leaflets for women link to corresponding peer-reviewed publications for professionals; the information is evidence-based and has been vigorously cross-referenced to provide objective summaries of the best available information. Each Informed Choice title is reviewed on a biennial basis and the methodology for the systematic review and critical appraisal of the literature is approved by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), York University.

Informed Choice is supported by the Royal College of Midwives and National Childbirth Trust.

Leaflets

• Support in labour.
• Fetal heart rate monitoring in labour.
• Routine ultrasound scanning in the first half of pregnancy.
• Alcohol and pregnancy.
• Positions in labour and delivery.
• The use of epidural analgesia for women in labour.
• Breastfeeding or bottle feeding.
• Antenatal screening for congential abnormalities.
• Breech presentation - options for care.
• Place of birth.
• The use of water during childbirth.
• Prolonged pregnancy.
• Diet and nutrition during pregnancy.
• Non-epidural strategies for pain relief during labour.
• Health and care after childbirth.
• Mode of delivery and events around the second stage of labour.
• Caesarean Section and VBAC (Vaginal birth after caesarean).
• Vitamin K - the debate and the evidence.
• Prophylactic anti-D for Rhesus negative women.
• Postnatal depression - symptoms and treatment.
• Sickle cell and thalassaemia disorders.
• Sexual health and contraception.
• Anaemia throughout pregnancy, birth and after.
• Screening and management of infectious disease.
• Achieving optimum health for parenthood.

Further information can be obtained from their website.