It’s getting more popular to delay the baby’s first bath, for a few reasons. One, parents want the chance to bond with their newborn immediately after the birth, and taking the baby away to be bathed delays that bonding period. Two, the baby is born covered with vernix (the thick, white cheese-like substance coating the […]
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Ask The Placenta Lady about Vulva Care Postpartum
Ask The Placenta Lady is a show about the birth year. Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery – no question is too strange for The Placenta Lady! Our question for this episode is: “I hear that vaginal birth can kind of wreak havoc ‘down there’. What can I do right away to help my vulva […]
Woman Gives Birth to 10lb Baby in the Car!
Birth is so lovely, so awe-inspiring and so unpredictable! One couple got the surprise of a lifetime when their son decided the car would be a good place to be born. Dad remained impressively calm and supportive while capturing the thrilling experience on a GoPro camera. Once they arrived at Bay Area Birth Center the staff checked […]
Common drug given after birth linked to poor breastfeeding outcomes
A drug commonly given to women to speed up the delivery of the placenta is now being blamed for poor breastfeeding rates in the UK. The drug known as ergotmetrine has been determined to disrupt the body’s response to the birth hormone oxytocin and prolactin, a hormone responsible for milk production in mothers. While […]
New research about the Vitamin K shot at Birth
Yesterday, Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN of Evidence Based Birth published a thorough and comprehensive article about the research and evidence for administering the vitamin K shot to newborns after birth. We are unable to make Vitamin K, a fat-soluable vitamin needed for clotting, ourselves and there are only 2 sources from which it […]
Advanced maternal age may be linked to decreased congenital malformations.
It is fairly common in our society for women to delay pregnancy, especially when compared to our parents’ generation. For a variety of reasons including career goals and delayed marriage, many women are waiting until their 30’s to start families. Waiting may consider these moms “high-risk” by most obstetricians for being of advanced maternal age, […]
