Posted in homebirth, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, tagged infant mortality, pregnancy on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Infant Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th
U.S. Ties Slovakia, Poland for 29th Place in Infant Deaths
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 15, 2008 — The U.S. ranks 29th worldwide in infant mortality, tying Slovakia and Poland but lagging behind Cuba, the CDC reports.
The CDC’s latest estimates for international rankings are [...]
Posted in homebirth, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, vbac on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Suspect Diagnoses Come with Biophysical Profiling
by Gloria Lemay
© 2004 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 69, Spring 2004.]
Many North American women are being told at the very end of their pregnancies to go to an ultrasound clinic and have a biophysical profile done. Most are impressed [...]
Posted in homebirth, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, vbac, tagged ACOG, birth, maternity care, vbac on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
October 12th, 2008 by Judith Lothian
The Milbank Report, Evidence-Based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve, was released on October 8. This report should shake the world of maternity care to its very core!
The authors of Evidence-Based Maternity Care, Carol Sakala and Maureen Corry, have a long involvement with evidence-based maternity care [...]
