Thank you to Dr Fogarty for your important review of all the literature!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29097178

This has become the most useful minute of my entire day!

With each week of pregnancy, the baby’s chances improve for survival.

In all Canadian infants in 2018 who received resuscitation, survival is approximately as follows:

At 22 weeks, approximately 34 out of 100 infants survive

At 23 weeks, approximately 50 out of 100 infants survive

At 24 weeks, approximately 75 out of 100 infants survive

At 25 weeks, approximately 80 out of 100 infants survive

At 26 weeks, approximately 90 out of 100 infants survive

At 27 weeks, approximately 91 out of 100 infants survive

(from the recently published 2018 Canadian Neonatal Network/Canadian Preterm Birth Network Annual Report)

Thank you to Ms Emiko Hayashi, president of Japanese parent group for preterm birth, for meeting with me, her son and Dr Tetsuya Isayama, a Japanese neonatologist and Head, Division of Neonatology, National Centre for Child Health and Development. Congratulations Ms Hayashi on starting this amazing group of 3,000 parents! Thank you for sharing your parent resources! Ms Fabi Bacchini from Canadian Premature Babies Foundation is keen to share CPBF resources with your members hence I will be putting you in touch!

I appreciated Professor Nakamura’s hospitality in Nagano and Azumino City!  It was great to discuss neonatal and antenatal management of preterm birth with him and Drs Masayo Kokubo, Keisuke Nakajima, Miyoko Terao, and Dalia Rodriguez Reyes (from Monterrey, Mexico). Thank you for a wonderful visit and delicious dinner in “the Japanese Alps” as you taught me your area is called, with good reason!

Thank you to Professor Saito and the whole Obstetrics and Neonatology Departments at Toyama University for a wonderful afternoon of learning from Drs H Niimi, N Yoneda, S Yoneda, T Yoshida and Ito who presented before me about our differences and similarities in prevention and management of preterm birth, and also differences and similarities in neonatal management.

We are pleased to learn that for a third year consecutively, McMaster is the most research-intensive university in Canada! On average, researchers at McMaster earned $439,500 (more than 2x the national average), and McMaster’s total sponsored research income has increased by more than $12 million from last year to a total of $391.6 million. We are excited to learn about the future advances in research that McMaster has to offer in the coming year!

For further information, the original article can be located here.

We’re excited to have submitted the protocol  for a new study Aspirin for prevention of preeclampsia: A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines on the use of an evidence-based approach to Prospero for publication on October 24th!

Thank you to all our amazing participants at the Clinician and Parent Meeting about Extremely Preterm Breech Birth that took place on Sept 13, 2019!