An Uptick in Refusal Not too long ago, somebody in a Facebook group I’m in posted a beautiful home birth picture (yay!), with a caption stating something along the lines of “Born at home, in water, lifted him out myself, no eye ointment, no vaccines, no Vitamin K! Proud natural warrior mama!” I experienced a …
You Learned to Breathe When You Were Born Do you believe pregnant women need to be taught how to breathe when preparing for their labors? Just as women are born with the knowledge about how to give birth, so they have also learned to breathe when they were born. There are a number of concerns …
Attending a birth as a doula can bring out many emotions, especially for a doula who has given birth herself. This is true for me. I have been to many births as a doula and there has not been a single birth that I didn’t shed some tears. I shed my tears because I am …
*With extracts from midwife, Jean Sutton “The Rhombus of Michaelis?” people ask, “What’s that??” Most women giving birth have never heard of it before and yet it plays a key part in every birth. I first heard about it from midwife Jean Sutton in New Zealand. She went back and studied the old midwifery texts …
I truly believe the media as a whole does a grave disservice to mothers-to-be when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. The majority of what we see on television inaccurately portrays birth in ways that leave women feeling fearful and having unrealistic expectations of their upcoming birth. It also misleads society which effects how women …
By Horatio Daub MD, MPH A recent study in the Journal of American Medical Association1, October 9, 2018, found that delaying pushing once full cervical dilatation is reached for 60 minutes vs. immediate pushing had no significant effect on the rate of spontaneous vaginal delivery (85.9 % in the immediate group vs. 86.5% in the …
This is Part Two of BWI President Cathy Daub’s report on the Mid-Pacific Womb Ecology Conference, held in Honolulu, HI in October of 2012. From a lecture by Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg MD, PhD Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg began her lecture by describing oxytocin as a highly charged protein that does not pass membranes easily. Thus, it cannot be …
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