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Tricking Baby with Fake Hands
Really? Now they’re selling fake hands to trick babies into thinking their mom is holding them? Really? AND look, you can even sent it with your favorite PERFUME: If you wear a particular perfume on a...
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Epiduals and Lower Lumbar Tattoos
I found this topic quite interesting and wanted to share. It’s not something I have ever though of before. The complete article is posted below form The Unnecearean: Robin Elise Weiss posted an article...
View ArticlePortland Ranked Best City to Have a Baby
Fit Pregnancy Magazine ranked Portland, Oregon as the best city to have a baby! Go Portland. What made Portland so awesomly birth friendly? Portland has tons of health food options, walkability, many...
View ArticleSexy Waterbirth???
Ok, though this ABC news article is still “cautioning” women against out of hosptial births, it at least is mostly encouraging of birthing in the tub:...
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Taking Back Childbirth
OK – last ABC news article for this week – I promise. I love that they repeatedly call natural childbirth a medical anomaly. Really?! And so here is another article about natural childbirth that made...
View ArticleMaternal Deaths
Why are women dying during childbirth during labor? It’s from hospital interventions, which this story touches on. The author could have gone one step further and brought in midwifery care:...
View ArticleKimberely Clarke Healthcare – Not on My Watch – Protecting Patients
I received the following information and want to pass it on to my readers: The government recently released its annual report on the quality of health care Americans receive and while there have been...
View ArticleFetal Monitoring – Test Leads to Needless C-sections
This article can be found here: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20100426_Test_leads_to_needless_C-sections.html#axzz0oxsV1500 Test leads to needless C-sections By Alex Friedman My patient...
View ArticleDoctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism
Article from The Stranger: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/06/29/doctor-treating-pregnant-women-with-experimental-drug-to-prevent-lesbianism That’s not fair, as Hanna Rosin at Slate will...
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Latch and Alternating Breasts During a Feeding can Cause Colic
A mother with her infant at a Government hospital in Chennai during the `World Breast Feeding Week' in August 2004. — Photo: V. Ganesan TWO WEEKS after our son Louis was born, three months ago, he...
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