Yesterday, I was at work (as always) and decided to ask my twitter friends a question. Would u have your older children with you to witness the birth of their younger siblings? I was really excited to get the replies. Anonymous mommy said: No. I dont think there is anything wrong with it but i [...]
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At work, as you all probably know, I cruise blogs looking for new insights, material, and great stores. Well, today, I found some great stuff…. She is an OB and she had a post on home birth midwives. I hadn’t seen it before when I was reading her blog, and I totally wish I had. [...]
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This week, I’ve decided to write a couple births of the most amazing woman I have ever heard of. Ina May Gaskin. The first is a sad one, but I think it is necessary to read so you can understand her. 10th Caravan Birth My next strong lesson in midwifery came on the tenth birth [...]
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The one thing I hate about this, and that’s the only thing, is that it says that there are graphic images that shouldn’t be shown to kids… Why is birth something that people don’t see? It is a completely natural process and if your kids don’t see real births, of course they are going to [...]
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I got this video from one of my best friends a couple of months ago. Just watching it still makes me cry. ‘Someday this will be the kids in America’.
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I was cruising blogs as I always do and I came across this post. It is on Bellies and Babies, and it hit so close to home I had to pass it on. Touch is so important, and this is why.Touch. The place, the space, between two people is encompassed in one simple word: touch. [...]
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In 1946, Dr. Curtis Mendelson hypothesized that the cause of pneumonia following general anesthesia was aspiration of the stomach’s contents. He noted in his study that food can be vomited 24-48 hours after being eaten. When his theory was tested on rabbits, aspiration of undigested food could not cause aspiration pneumonia, it only caused obstructions. [...]
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About a month of two ago, I was cruising the internet at work, and searching birth things as I always do, and I came across an article that had the title Eli and Abby Manning donate funds for new birthing center at St. Vincent’s Hospital I was completely baffled! Eli Manning? The NY Giants Quarterback? [...]
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I was horribly bored at work today, so I twittered and asked what people wanted me to write about, and I had a reply about CPD and its overdiagnosis. I have been wanting to research this since I heard about a friend that knew someone that was diagnosed with this, and I am pretty sure [...]
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I got a couple new birth books this last weekend, and one is just birth stories. I LOVE birth stories so I was completely thrilled. It contains 60 women’s stories and I thought I would get really emotional like I always do, and it would be absolutely amazing. I got emotional alright…. Horribly, horribly angry. [...]
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