Stimulating conversation: does cold water wake babies in utero? Part 1.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and emerged in these discussions. Overall, the majority of respondents were open to using this practice in Gynaecologists (RCOG) library recently responded to a question about whether there was any evidence about the practice of offering a cold drink to a pregnant woman in order to encourage fetal movement or improve the reactivity of a cardiotocograph (CTG) trace. Their search conversations with midwives and other practice, which led me to have a number of practitioners about their experience of this. In the highlighted a dearth of research into this common first of two articles on this topic, I explain the theory and describe the range of responses that certain situations, but they felt it vital that it was used within a framework of providing individualised care and applying common sense.
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