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• Australia: Home Births Outlawed?

  
  Women of History — Authority: 142
  From ABC New Online : A rally has been held outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudds electoral office in Brisbane over a legislative amendment that protesters say will outlaw home births. About 300 women and children and a sprinkling of men turned out in showery conditions outside Mr Rudds Morningside office this ...
  15 hours ago

• Contrasts.

  
  FRECTIS — Authority: 110
  I attended two births in one day, almost exactly 12 hours apart.  One was due last month, one was due this month.  One boy, one girl.  One woman surrounded by family, the other with only her husband.  One noisy, the other quiet.  One totally uncomplicated, the other almost completely complicated.  One born in ...
  18 hours ago

• Another wonderful Hypnobabies Birth Story!

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  This time from a Hypnobabies Instructor in Atlanta !
  1 day ago

• Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 108
  Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...
  1 day ago

• Australia Hates Liberty… and Mothers and Babies

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 472
  My very first post on ThePolitic.com was on the subject of some horrendous legislation in Australia that would effectively outlaw midwife assisted homebirth.  For those who aren’t familiar with the practice, midwife assisted homebirth is exactly what it says.  It takes hospitals out of the equation when it comes ...
  1 day ago

• Home Birth vs. Birth Center

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  Pinky RN is looking for home-birthers to answer questions about home birth vs. birth center births:Would folks who want a homebirth because of the restrictive nature of the hospital, come to a freestanding birth center? Is there a demand for Birth Centers? Especially a Birth center across the street from the hospital ...
  2 days ago

• Fetal heart rate monitors no substitute for medical advice

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 577
  Fetal heart rate monitors shouldn’t be used as a replacement for a proper medical warned doctors. Doctors have published information in the British Medical Journal warning that fetal monitors, used to listen to a baby’s heartbeat, may give “false reassurance” and unnecessary anxiety to parents who use them. ...
  3 days ago

• Here’s your sign!

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  Jill at the Unnecesarean is sponsoring a giveaway on her blog — a PhotoShop contest, spoofing the anti-doulah [sic] sign posted in an obstetrician’s office. Here’s my entry: Ok, now my creative juices are flowing…   
  4 days ago

• Tiffani shares her inspirational VBA2C story

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Anyway, I had c-sections with my first two kids and knew that I wanted this 3rd one to be born natually and vaginally. I decided on a home birth rather than to find a doctor who would honor a VBAC, especially after 2 sections. My husband was NOT for it at first but the more and more I read and told him, the more ...
  5 days ago

• Want Certified Professional Midwives in health care reform? Today is your chance.

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 478
  I haven’t been following the play by play on health care reform, but I know there are some important opportunities at stake and recognition of CPMs is one of them. If you care, see below for instructions to take action today. From the Big Push for Midwives : We are down to the wire days left before the final ...
  5 days ago

• Shortage of UK midwives â?? real reasons revealed

  
  Rinie Speak Up !! — Authority: 142
  A recent survey by nurses.co.uk has revealed that the real issues behind the shortage of midwives in the UK include pay, long working hours, and access to jobs due to qualification criteria, as well as positions being filled by nurses from overseas. Despite the fact that 88% of UK registered midwives that answered ...
  6 days ago

• When might a high C-section rate be a good thing?

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  The World Health Organization has said (and since reiterated — despite the latest spin-doctoring, which Science and Sensibility exposes) that no country or region should have more than 10-15% C-section rate, and that once above that rate, more mothers and babies are harmed rather than helped by this intervention. ...
  1 week ago

• Shortage of UK midwives â?? real reasons revealed

  
  Rinie Speak Up !! — Authority: 142
  A recent survey by nurses.co.uk has revealed that the real issues behind the shortage of midwives in the UK include pay, long working hours, and access to jobs due to qualification criteria, as well as positions being filled by nurses from overseas. Despite the fact that 88% of UK registered midwives that answered ...
  1 week ago

• Matthews Fast Intense Birth (Induction)

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Well, Matthew is here – born 10/16 at 1028 pm, 8.5 lbs, 21 inches. Here is his very very long story – sorry, just kept writing. This definitely needs a BOP at times, but thought I’d share anyway.  Also, occasionally a possible TMI. I have had two previous inductions that were very good.  I had some IV meds ...
  1 week ago

• Shocking C-Section delivery rate of a quarter of all babies in England

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 577
  A quarter of babies delivered in England are by C-Section. This figure is double the World Health Organisation’s recommended rate and described as a, “serious cause for concern” by LibDem health spokesman Norman Lamb. Almost 25% or around 155,000 babies last year were delivered via caesarean section despite ...
  1 week ago

• Elise’s Easy and Comfortable Hypnobabies Hospital Birth

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Our precious baby girl was born 2:40 a.m. on September 29!  Here is the story: I was working at my laptop at the dining room table until after 11:30 p.m. on the 28th (my “guess” date).  I was having some mild contractions, but I had been having them for two months due to an irritable uterus, so I didn’t pay ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nursing Midwives in the Medical Field

  
  Rinie Speak Up !! — Authority: 142
  Midwifery is the term traditionally used to describe the art of assisting a woman through the process of childbirth. In the modern context, this term is used to describe the activities of these health care providers who are experts in women’s health care, which includes giving prenatal care to expecting mothers. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ask your senator to add midwifery to Medicaid

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  Now, as health care reform is being debated, would be an excellent time to ask your friendly local Senators to support adding Certified Public Midwifery to the list of healthcare providers who can receive Medicaid funds. CPM’s are trained professionals. They are not nurse midwives and thus send women into the ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 pound baby born in 2 pushes!

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  West= my 22 month old Son John= my husband The Birth of Mabel: Mid-morning on Oct 2nd I called my midwives to ask about labor inducing herbs they have. I was “due” on 9/28 according to ultrasound measurements (or 9/25 based on LMP-last menstral period). I was huge and very tired of being pregnant.  One of my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Midwives and Midwifery

  
  Rinie Speak Up !! — Authority: 142
  Nursing job vacancies still show shortage of midwives all around the UK. It has been a hot topic for some time now but yet the UK midwife shortage continues. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) still believes women giving birth are being put at risk because of this shortage. NHS guidelines say women in labour ...
  2 weeks ago

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