This article emphasizes the importance of postnatal nutrition. I appreciate that he mentions the placenta as a source for replenishing what is lost during pregnancy. Use your placenta, mamas! The Deep Need for a Comprehensive Postpartum Vitamin System for all Postpartum Women by Dr. Dean Raffelock Throughout the past 30 years in private […]
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Abort it if you can’t afford it?!
Aaron Bouren, Karen Fennell, Me, Scott Smith I met Aaron Bouren at the Controversies in Childbirth conference, and I am still recovering. If you ever have the chance to meet this guy you will know what I’m talking about. Everything about Aaron is big – his six-foot-plus frame has to be huge to contain his […]
The Centering model for prenatal care
At the Controversies in Childbirth conference, Cynthia Wade described Centering, a group approach to prenatal/birth care. In this model of care, the mothers are active participants. They weigh themselves, they take their own blood pressure, they write everything down in their chart. They are grouped together by estimated due date, so they already have […]
Growing danger from postpartum hemorrhage
Monitoring of the third and final stage of labor, the birth of the placenta, needs to be more closely monitored. Postpartum hemorrhage is increasing, with very negative effects on maternal outcomes. The placenta itself is wonderful for helping to stop hemmorhage – placing a small piece of fresh placenta on the inside of the cheek […]
Low-tech, high-touch care yields better birth outcomes
A new report out by Consumer Reports is confirming what many of us already knew – women need CARE in their birth experience, not machines. Don’t get me wrong – I love technology. I’m a bit of a technophile, in fact. But not when it comes to women and birth. Not when it overrides […]
Supporting Home-Birth Midwives
There was a recent story on MSNBC on home birth and the midwifery model of care. It is still astonishing to me that the obstetrical and hospital model of care has so completely taken over childbirth in such a short period of time (since the 1950’s), to such a degree that midwifery is actually illegal […]
