Does Controlled Cord Traction Reduce Postpartum Blood Loss?

May 15, 2013

By Jamie Habib | May 10, 2013 Pertinent Point ~:~ Controlled cord traction used in high-resource settings does not affect the risk of severe postpartum hemorrhage. In high-resource settings, the practice of controlled cord traction for the management of placenta expulsion is not associated with a decreased incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, according to the results of a […]

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Effective Care in Pregnancy & Childbirth: Third edition (2000) ~ a 7-part series

May 11, 2013

Murray Enkin, MD, FRCS(C), L L D, Marc J. N. C Keirse, MD, DPhil, DPH, FRA NWOG, FRCOG James Neilson, BSc, MD, FRCOG, Caroline Crowther, MD, DCH, DDU, FRCOG, FRANWOG, Lelia Duley, MD, MSc(Epid), MRCOG, Ellen Hodnett, RN, PhD, and G. Justus Hofmneyr, MBBCH, MRCOG Third Edition, 2000 {Contains same evidence-based recommendation that are now […]

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Selfish Women and Their Silly Birth Experiences – from ICAN website

May 9, 2013

Posted by Cristen on May 7, 2013 in Articles, Avoiding a C-section | 55 comments This is not a post about natural birth.  Just keep reading. When I was preparing to give birth, I saw it as a once-in-a-lifetime event and something I wanted, more than anything, to do “right.”  By doing it “right,” I meant that I wanted the safest and […]

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A lesson in common-sense and why it’s so hard for the medical profession to use it?

March 26, 2013

Twin girls, Brielle and Kyrie Jackson were born 12 weeks ahead of their due date at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Worcester, MA on October 17, 1995. Needing intensive care, they were placed in separate incubators. Each weighed 2 lbs. and Kyrie began to gain weight and her health stabilized. But Brielle had trouble breathing, heart […]

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Increased risk of placenta accreta following primary elective caesarean delivery: a case-controlled study

March 4, 2013

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 03/04/2013 CONCLUSION: Compared with primary emergency caesarean section, primary elective caesarean section significantly increased the risk of placenta accreta in a subsequent pregnancy in the presence of *placenta praevia (OR 3.00; 95% CI 1.47–6.12; P = 0.025). *editor’s note: Obviously, follow-up studies on women with previas (all of whom had pre-labor Cesareans) […]

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