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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and pregnancy

CMV – a member of the Herpes Virus family – can cause infection in unborn babies. It affects 0.5 to 2 per cent of all pregnancies. Now that we give women information about avoiding listeria and toxoplasma and most pregnant women are immune to rubella

ZANTAC / RANITIDINE

This drug is a category A antacid that we commonly use in pregnancy While it definitely does not harm unborn babies all currently available preparations of Zantac have been withdrawn from sale worldwide because of the possibility that some of them might contain an additive

My Obstetric Fees

Unfortunately I have had to increase the fees for my obstetric services. You can find my new fee schedule in the Services section of my website. Believe it or not this is a decision I do not take lightly. I am only too well aware

Introduction to Pregnancy

This is a funny (peculiar, not Ha Ha) piece of work. Basically it is a collection of a number of information sheets I have written over the past four or five years. This is the reason that the arrangement is by topic rather than chronology

Patient Satisfaction Survey

If I looked after your pregnancy and the birth of your baby (or babies) since January 2017 I’d be very grateful if you could fill in my Patient Satisfaction Survey. It only takes 5 minutes. The link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2YBW9N Thanks so much for your time and

Weekend Cover Changes

Dr Natalie Shaw and I have pretty much covered each other’s weekends, study leave and holidays on a one in two roster (12 days on and two days off) now for ten years. This is an unusually onerous out of hours roster (many obstetricians work

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