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    Archive for December, 2007

    Cesareans and breathing problems

    Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

    The Danes and Brits have recently delivered information to the scientific world that is obvious to a lot of us — that babies delivered by elective Cesarean sections are more likely to have respiratory problems than those delivered vaginally or by emergency surgery. Researchers studied more than 34,000 births at a Danish hospital, 2,687 of [...]

    Posted in Cesarean Birth, Physiology of Normal Birth, Technology, informed decision making | 2 Comments »

    A mother’s touch?

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    I am aghast about this “innovation”. Check this out. A set of fake hands that lead us to believe they take the place of “our” hands. The hands that love, nurture, hold, touch, care for, believe in, embrace, give strength, encourage, and, yes, again, love our children.
    There is nothing that takes the place of mothers and [...]

    Posted in Technology | No Comments »

    The fear of looking

    Thursday, December 6th, 2007

    Here’s a good little dialog about the vagina – whether or not a birthing woman and/or her partner should look at it as the baby crowns. Questions about how the site of the vagina doing its intended work might negatively impact the laboring woman, or (worse yet!?) her partner, are nicely summed up with the [...]

    Posted in Physiology of Normal Birth | 3 Comments »