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.