The BIRTH Special Collection

Supporting women on their journey to motherhood

In 2014, the EU funded a COST Action that brought together over 120 scientists, practitioners, activists and policy makers from 34 countries, to advance research and practice in an area of great clinical and social importance, intrapartum care. This Special Collection presents six papers produced from the Action and illustrates the transformative research that was conducted by the Action.

Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection

August 5, 2020 Soo Downe, Jean Calleja Agius, Marie-clare Balaam, Lucy Frith

Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection – PLOS Collections

July 29, 2020 Lucy Frith, Marie-Clare Balaam, Soo Downe

COLLECTION ARTICLES

Birth as a neuro-psycho-social event: an integrative model of maternal experiences and their relation to neurohormonal events during childbirth.

July 28, 2020Ibone Olza, Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, Anette Ekström-Bergström, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Sigfridur Inga Karlsdottir, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Stella Villarmea, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Maria Kazmierczak, Andria Spyridou, Sarah Buckley

Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during breastfeeding – a systematic review

August 5, 2020Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, Anette Ekström-Bergström, Sarah Buckley, Claudia Massarotti, Zada Pajalic, Karolina Luegmair, Alicia Kotlowska, Luise Lengler, Ibone Olza, Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Eleni Hadjigeorgiu, Stella Villarmea, Anna Dencker

A computational fluid dynamics modelling of maternal-fetal heat exchange and blood flow in the umbilical cord

July 28, 2020Dorothea Kasiteropoulou, Anastasia Topalidou, Soo Downe

Thermal imaging of the fetus: An empirical feasibility study

July 28, 2020Anastasia Topalidou, Garik Markarian, Soo Downe

How do midwives facilitate women to give birth during physiological second stage of labour? A systematic review

July 28, 2020Maria Healy, Viola Nyman, Dale Spence, René Otten, Corine Verhoeven

How much synthetic oxytocin is infused during labour? A review and analysis of regimens used in 12 countries

July 28, 2020Deirdre Daly, Karin CS Minnie, Alwiena Blignaut, Ellen Blix, Anne Britt Vika Nilsen, Anna Dencker, Katrien Beeckman, Mechthild Gross, Jessica Pehlke-Milde, Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Martina Koenig-Bachmann, Jette Clausen, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Sandra Morano, Laura Iannuzzi, Barbara Baranowska, Iwona Kiersnowska, Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg

Economic implications of reducing caesarean section rates – analysis of two health systems

July 28, 2020Patrick Moran, Charles Normand, Patricia Gillen, Francesca Wuytack, Michael Turner, Cecily Begley, Deirdre Daly