10 Sep Study: Home Birth With Midwife As Safe As Hospital Birth
My very good friend, Liz, recently told me she is pregnant with her third child. I had the thrill and privilege to be her doula for the first two births...
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01 Sep Perineal Massage
I am often asked about the usefulness of perineal massage for expectant mothers. To be completely honest, I haven't heard much feedback about it either way. I decided to...
25 Aug Video: Reducing Infant Mortality
This new video by Debby Takikawa has recently been released. It is definitely worth the time to watch! ...
14 Jul Your Abdominal Muscles Can Help You Push Your Baby Out
Many women think that the abdominal region is off limits during pregnancy, when in fact it is even more important to maintain strength and stability in the core to help...
08 Jul Updating a Standard: Fetal Monitoring
Take a moment to read this article about External Fetal Monitoring from yesterday's New York Times. It has become a real issue and a routine practice in so many...
25 Jun Hospital’s Oxytocin Protocol Change Sharply Reduces Emergency C-Section Share
One of my fellow chidlbirth advocates turned me onto an article about the correlation of pitocin usage and emergency cesareans. Interestingly, as the usage of pitocin increases (According to...
10 Jun Do We Over Value Technology to Personal Touch
I just received my copy of New York Magazine yesterday and noticed that it was the "Best Doctors" issue. I eagerly opened it to see if I knew any...
04 Jun The US Has One Of The Worst Maternal Mortality Rates In The World. Why?
FACT: The United States ranks 42nd in the WORLD for maternal mortality rates FACT: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that there has been no improvement in the maternal death...
26 May The Gate Control Theory of Pain Management in Childbirth and the Epidural
Last night I was teaching a refresher childbirth education class to a couple. The father is a physician and the mother is an occupational therapist - so when I started...
19 May Recent Artcile, Childbirth: Can the U.S. Improve?
I love when childbirth related articles fall into mainstream media. The Sunday, LA Times published an article, "Childbirth: Can the U.S. improve?". It highlights some of the biggest...