Maternal & Fetal Medicine groups to replace phase “term pregnancy” with 4 more accurate categories

October 25, 2013

Medscape Medical News ACOG/SMFM: Replace Phrase ‘Term Pregnancy’ With 4 Categories Marcia Frellick October 22, 2013 EDITORS’ RECOMMENDATIONS Earliest of Early-Term Births at Higher Risk for Mortality Late Preterm Birth Tied to Lower Adult Achievement Early Induction Linked to Lower Odds of Cesarean Delivery Using the general phrase “term pregnancy” to refer to births between 3 weeks before […]

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To Hat or Not to Hat, That is the Strange Conundrum

September 13, 2013

Reposted from BIRTH ANARCHY January 2013 (Hi Kathy!) Posted on January 12, 2013 by Kathi Valeii Have you heard the phrase, “Stop hatting, chatting and patting?” I first heard the phrase from California midwife, Carla Hartley, who has studied during her thirty year midwifery career, the affects that interventive third stage practices have on both mother […]

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Viva La EVIDENCE! ~ an extraordinary YouTube video on EBM made by an Canadian physician

September 7, 2013
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The Re-education of my perineum ~ one woman’s personal account

August 31, 2013

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com Re-posted from The New york TImes ~ AUGUST 12, 2013 This article was part of a series under the category “The French government pays for perineum re-education”. It describes an American woman’s experience with the French system of maternity care and a French physical therapist by the name of “Aude” who specializes in the area of […]

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Vaginal birth — but not C-section — triggers brain boosting proteins

August 2, 2013

By Karen N. Peart August 8, 2012 Vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, who also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of offspring delivered by […]

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