June 17, 2008

better births for the modern mother

Speakers:
Prof Jim Neilson, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Head of School of Reproductive & Developmental Medicine, University of Liverpool
Prof Susan Wray, Head of the Division of Physiology, University of Liverpool
Dr Siobhan Quenby, Reader and Honorary Consultant in the School of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, University of Liverpool

Although most pregnancies and labours proceed without problems, things can sometimes go wrong.
Around 10% of mothers experience such a difficult labour that they require an emergency caesarean section; about 50,000 operations each year are carried out on otherwise healthy women in the UK alone. Researchers and clinicians at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, who are working together to improve this situation and create the Centre for Better Births, came to the SMC to discuss the difficulties that modern mothers face and what is being done to make pregnancy and childbirth safer.