Pregnant Pumpkin Carving!!!

My Personal Teaching Statistics

Total Births: 17
Avg. Weeks Gest. 0
	Number	Percent
Labor:
Spontaneous:	16	94.12%
Augmented:	0	0.00%
Induced	1	5.88%
Attendant:
Doctor	9	52.94%
LayMidwife	5	29.41%
LicMidwife	3	17.65%
Location:
Home	6	35.29%
Hospital	11	64.71%
Delivery:
Cesarean	2	11.76%
Vaginal	15	88.24%
Drugs:
None:	14	82.35%
For Labor:	1	5.88%
For Delivery:	2	11.76%
For Repair:	0	0.00%

New Baby!!!

Congratulations to couple #17 on the birth of their baby girl!!!

New Class Starting

My next Bradley Method® series starts on November 4th from 7-9 pm and is good for late February - March due dates. Only 2 spots left!!! Check here for schedule and availability.

12 classes done!!!

Congratulations to all 3 couples of class #10 on either having your babies or finishing the series!

Saftey Recall

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Strollers

2010 Quattro Tour™ and MetroLite™ Stroller Recall

Potential Problem:

Entrapment and strangulation can occur, especially to infants younger than 12 months of age, when a child is not harnessed. An infant can pass through the opening between the stroller tray and seat bottom, but his/her head and neck can become entrapped by the tray. Infants who become entrapped at the neck are at risk of strangulation.

Munchausen’s Obstetrics

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Lots of good information and citations contained in this one.

"The huge dinosaur of American obstetrics is creating generation after generation of unconsciously traumatized and often subtly brain-damaged people, people whose lives are often subsequently burdened with criminal behavior, learning difficulties, ADHD, addiction, depression and other mental illnesses and symptoms of brain damage. These iatrogenic outcomes are entirely preventable, in fact in most cases can be avoided at less cost than the procedures which cause them. The question of whose interests are served by making birth needlessly difficult I'll leave to your imagination.

The American way of birth (unfortunately spreading worldwide) has now been linked to large increases in rates of mental ailments including depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse and dependencies by at least 2 large well controlled studies, which both studiously avoided the most obvious conclusion.
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/ 9_19_98/fob1.htm http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/ MGM/birthUSA2.txt

Post traumatic stress reactions have been noted in American infants returning to hospitals, again while neglecting the obvious possibility that they were remembering birth trauma.
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/MGM/oldrefs/www.drkoop.com/newsdetail"/93/512690.html

Sesame Street Explains Breastfeeding

New Baby!!!

Congratulations to couple #16 on the birth of your baby girl this morning!!! I can''t wait to meet her.

I Was Pregnant For 10 Months

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"As US midwife Gail Hart points out, the most-cited statistic about post-dates babies (that their risk of stillbirth "doubles after 42 weeks") comes from a 1958 study – a time when mortality rates were 10 times what they are now. Also, as Hart argues, induction is hardly risk-free: it carries higher rates of caesarean section, uterine rupture, foetal distress and maternal haemorrhage."

"As a midwife you know if a baby is truly post-mature by the state of the skin. It's drier and flakier. They look like someone who has been in the water too long." But according to one American study [cited by Gail Hart in Midwifery Today], more than 90% of supposedly "late" babies born at 43 weeks in fact show no signs of post-maturity."

"To most hospitals, Gaskin adds, a lack of symptoms – and the patient's history – is irrelevant: "This habit of making absolute rules that are applied to cases that used to be open to individual treatment has contributed to the dumbing down of maternity care."

This is true in the UK too. I couldn't understand why my doctor was not interested in all the heart monitoring (every two days after 42 weeks) – and all perfect – or in the ultrasound scan. Nor was there any interest in my birth history (two late babies and fast births, which I thought made me a poor candidate for induction). All that mattered were the statistics – from 1958."