Magnesium: the relevance of research.

The recent flurry of apparently conflicting research findings is likely to have left practitioners, if not at a loss, at least bemused about this topic. How best should the midwife advise the childbearing woman on the subject of magnesium supplementation during pregnancy? It is possible that the recent welter of words may not have been of very much help to any of those who read them. In this paper I suggest that the researchers may actually be missing the point as far as providing useful and usable data is concerned.