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Don’t stymie choice of home childbirth

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 [...]

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we are NOT dead at 40!!!

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 [...]

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Doctors are Lying? Be still my heart!! Wow!

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 [...]

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ACOG Statement on Home Births

Posted in homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, unassisted childbirth, vbac, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Dr. Brewer’s Diet

Posted in daily food log, homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, unassisted childbirth, vbac, tagged , , on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As part of my plan to be as healthy as I can be during this pregnancy and birth, I have decided to commit to the Dr. Brewer’s Diet.  You can learn more here: http://www.blueribbonbaby.org/
Basically, this Dr. is convinced that diet has more to do with maternal and infant health than we are being led to [...]

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Interesting study re: medical complications with midwives vs OB’s

Posted in children, homebirth, midwives, natural child birth, natural family living, pregnancy, unassisted childbirth, tagged , , , , on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

J Epidemiol Community Health. 1998 May;52(5):310- 7. Midwifery care, social
and medical risk factors, and birth outcomes in the USA.
MacDorman MF, Singh GK. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine if there are significant differences in birth
outcomes and survival for infants delivered by certified nurse [...]

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