I remember once talking with a pregnant woman in the hospital who had just been tested for gestational diabetes. She looked up at me confused saying, “I eat healthfully and there is no history of diabetes in my family.” She had a look of despair in her eyes and I could tell any confidence she had had …
When you see these diagrams of an opening cervix, you can see how a posterior lip would be unlikely because in actuality, the cervix opens in an elliptical fashion and not concentrically. The baby’s head dilates the cervix more with each contraction pulling the anterior part of the cervix with it. When the head is …
Pain in labour and childbirth is not a ‘bad’ thing requiring fixing or flat out avoidance. On the contrary, it is the pain of labour that helps contract the uterus and open a mother ready to bring her child into the world. This collection of sensations should be encouraged because it is these sensations that …
Viagra Given To Pregnant Women I am saddened as I read the new headline in today’s news. “Eleven babies die after Dutch women given Viagra in drug trial. Research halted as 10 to 15 other participants wait to see if their children affected,” My mind immediately goes back to the drug thalidomide in the 1960’s …
Childbirth is a life process, offering an unparalleled opportunity for personal growth, transformation of identity, and instinctual guidance. Commonly, people come out of their birth experiences with vivid memories of key moments occurring during the experience, moments that left them feeling particularly cared for, listened to, or verbally encouraged with just the right word. These …
Each week in my pregnancy and postnatal massage practice I find out from my clients that they’re being told they have to have an induction for various reasons that they don’t fully understand. Most are really unhappy and don’t want the procedure, but many are told they will be risking their baby if they don’t. …
Part 2: Factors leading to the rise in maternal mortality and morbidity at birth in the USA. Nutrition: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) show through a series of maps of the USA , a dramatic rise in obesity and diabetes in just the last 11 years. It is so prevalent now that it is …
Part 1 Maternal mortality is on the rise in the USA and was recently the topic on National Public Radio (NPR). In this day and age, the loss of even one mother for her baby or babies is too many. These following NPR news titles summarize the growing concern: American mothers die in childbirth at …
Elizabeth Davis spoke so beautifully about the emotional phases of labor at the Midwifery Today Conference in Mount Laurel, NJ last month. Proposing that there is a sexual nature to birth that correlates with plateaus in labor, and explaining the different states of brainwaves in conjunction with the phases of labor, Elizabeth laid out the …
I had the honor some years ago of escorting Nils Bergman, MD to New Jersey hospitals where he gave talks about the importance of mother baby skin-to-skin contact. He gave a fireside chat at the Stoney Brook Hospital in Long Island that I will never forget. That and along with my physical therapy experience with …
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