Posted in children, homebirth, natural child birth, natural family living, parenting, pregnancy, vbac on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
a HBA2CS this time!!! Announcing Baby Zen
Although i havent had much time to type, I finally found the time to write a short version of the birth story of our son, Valentine Zenson Lazarus (baby Zen). He was my 2nd VBAC but first HBA2CS (his brother was a VBAC at a free standing birth [...]
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 [...]
Posted in homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, vbac on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By GERADINE SIMKINS
Posted: July 17, 2008
One wonders what process the American Medical Association House of Delegates used to determine that its resolution on home deliveries was prudent and reasonable.
AMA resolution 205 attempts to outlaw a woman’s choice to give birth at home or in a freestanding birth center by calling for legislation to establish hospitals [...]
Posted in homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, vbac on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, I know that the medical culture in the U.S.A. is horrible for women of all ages. However, I find the entire “advanced maternal age” (i.e., AMA) thing to be such a joke. Women are not dead at 40. There are very few studies in women over 40 in the last 50 years that have [...]
Posted in homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, pregnancy on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Management of Suspected Fetal Macrosomia (which basically means “big baby”)
http://www.aafp. org/afp/20010115 /302.html
“A recent decision analysis estimated that to prevent one case of permanent brachial plexus injury, 3,700 women with an estimated fetal weight of 4,500 g would need to have an elective cesarean section for suspected macrosomia at a cost of $8.7 million per case [...]
Posted in homebirth, natural child birth, pregnancy, tagged homebirth, pregnancy, the business of being born on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have alot more to say about the new movie The Business of Being Born, but this youtube video says alot:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=bm77ZujkTbw&rel=1&eurl=http%3A//us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/blank.html%3Fbn%3D818.31&iurl=http%3A//i.ytimg.com/vi/bm77ZujkTbw/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKnfEJiOIf9dcZ6AwiOyYwG&
Posted in homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, unassisted childbirth, vbac, tagged c-section, home birth pregnancy, vbac on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has seen The Business of Being Born. Because they have issues a News Release that is about as preposterous as anything I have ever read from a medical establishment.
Below is the News Release, but I have to simply point out that ACOG’s conclusions are not [...]
Posted in homebirth, natural child birth, pregnancy, unassisted childbirth, vbac on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Truth About VBAC
“As long as you are of legal age and able to think clearly, logically, and coherently for yourself, you should never cede that responsibility [to make your own health decisions] to anyone else – not your doctor, not your friends, not to your family, not to the heath gurus, and especially not [...]
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