A panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended steps to reverse a trend that has dismayed many pregnant women: the increasing difficulty of finding doctors and hospitals that will let a woman try to give birth normally if she has had a Caesarean section in the past.I myself tried to keep up with the tweets (twitters? twittles? I dunno.) as it was happening and I just couldn't make heads or tails of it. Trying to do just about anything that requires sustained attention is not that easy when there's potty training going on. Which Badger is doing, by Jove! He had just one accident yesterday. Progress, progress.
Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines
The New York Times reports on the recommendations of a panel at the NIH regarding VBACs and Cesarean sections:
Lessons at Tuba City Hopsital, Run by Navajos, About Birth
An excellent article in the New York Times!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/health/07birth.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/health/07birth.html
As Washington debates health care, this small hospital in a dusty desert town on an Indian reservation, showing its age and struggling to make ends meet, somehow manages to outperform richer, more prestigious institutions when it comes to keeping Caesarean rates down, which saves money and is better for many mothers and infants.
so, it snowed.
it snowed a lot. and now it's snowing again. kids off school. we're hanging in there. they better not close the schools on thursday or so help me. SO HELP ME.
i use a lot of doula-skills in my parenting. patience. compassion. creativity. strength. the ability to stay awake for insane periods of time. sense of humor.
but we haven't left the house except for a few brief trips to play in the snow (the hubbie did take the big kids out a few times -- it's too hard for me to take the three of them out solo) since 3:30pm on friday, just as the snow started. so we're on hour 101 of each other. and i'm not that good.
i use a lot of doula-skills in my parenting. patience. compassion. creativity. strength. the ability to stay awake for insane periods of time. sense of humor.
but we haven't left the house except for a few brief trips to play in the snow (the hubbie did take the big kids out a few times -- it's too hard for me to take the three of them out solo) since 3:30pm on friday, just as the snow started. so we're on hour 101 of each other. and i'm not that good.
"Get Me Out" -- sounds like an interesting read!
This sounds like one for the library list:
Lessons from the History of Childbirth
A Q&A with Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, author of “Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank.’’
I find the history of childbirth so fascinating -- the similarities and differences to how we do things today!
Lessons from the History of Childbirth
A Q&A with Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, author of “Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank.’’
I find the history of childbirth so fascinating -- the similarities and differences to how we do things today!
Dads and Breastfeeding
Now here is a helpful list of ways Dads can bond with a breastfed baby:
Breastfeeding Tips for Dads
And I love that feeding a bottle of expressed breastmilk was only #4 on the list. Being a cheerleader for mom, bathing the baby, and skin-to-skin cuddles are fantastic ways to be a present father. From my own experience, my husband brought the infant Chim to and from bed for me to nurse -- and that probably saved me, frankly.
Hooray for dads!!!
Breastfeeding Tips for Dads
And I love that feeding a bottle of expressed breastmilk was only #4 on the list. Being a cheerleader for mom, bathing the baby, and skin-to-skin cuddles are fantastic ways to be a present father. From my own experience, my husband brought the infant Chim to and from bed for me to nurse -- and that probably saved me, frankly.
Hooray for dads!!!
Back to Sleep!
I think it's every parent's nightmare -- SIDS.
Researchers have found a new clue -- a serotonin imbalance, when coupled with external factors such as belly sleeping, can decrease a baby's ability to wake and move when oxygen supply is inadequate.
It's so chilling to think about it. I still check Chim and Badger every night before bed and Charlie, many many times per night. Of course that little stinker is waking up 5x a night so that's reassuring :)
Researchers have found a new clue -- a serotonin imbalance, when coupled with external factors such as belly sleeping, can decrease a baby's ability to wake and move when oxygen supply is inadequate.
It's so chilling to think about it. I still check Chim and Badger every night before bed and Charlie, many many times per night. Of course that little stinker is waking up 5x a night so that's reassuring :)
Gisele Bundchen's home birth
She had the baby in the bathtub... on purpose!
http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/breakingnews/view/17591/Gisele-Bundchen-Giving-birth-was-pain-free-/
and she didn't wear maternity clothes!
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/02/02/2010-02-02_model_gisele_bundchen_didnt_need_to_wear_maternity_clothes_while_pregnant_with_s.html
OK, the only thing I really have known about her is that she's with Tom Brady, who, as a resident of the City of Pittsburgh, I am contractually obligated to loathe from the base of my soul (read your tax forms, people, it's in there!).
But that's pretty rad. I love the normalization of pregnancy, natural birth, and mothering.
http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/breakingnews/view/17591/Gisele-Bundchen-Giving-birth-was-pain-free-/
and she didn't wear maternity clothes!
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/02/02/2010-02-02_model_gisele_bundchen_didnt_need_to_wear_maternity_clothes_while_pregnant_with_s.html
OK, the only thing I really have known about her is that she's with Tom Brady, who, as a resident of the City of Pittsburgh, I am contractually obligated to loathe from the base of my soul (read your tax forms, people, it's in there!).
But that's pretty rad. I love the normalization of pregnancy, natural birth, and mothering.
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