New Research: What time did you give birth?

PARENTING: In this blog-post, Toni Harman asks are we routinely intervening in birth too early and too often? This was inspired by a new paper comparing gestational age and time of day women are most likely to give birth in 3 countries: the US, the Netherlands and England.

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New research: What time did you give birth? Declerq E. et al., PLoS One. Jan 18 2023. Find out more about this science at our virtual conference April 29/30 — featuring 20+ international speakers. Click this link to join the waitlist for access to the conference. >>> https://bit.ly/microbirth2023

What time did you give birth?

A simple question, but actually it leads to a much bigger consideration:

Are we routinely intervening in birth too early and too often? (Skip to the end of this blog article to hear my take-home message/rant!)

A new paper by Professor Eugene Declercq and Dr Neel Shah (and colleagues) compares gestational age and timing of birth by hour of day in 3 countries: the US, the Netherlands and my own country, England.