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Attunement. Midwivery. What is Evidence-based Maternity Care? - Improving Birth. Evidence-based maternity care means practices that have been shown by the highest quality, most current medical evidence to be most beneficial to mothers and babies (reducing incidences of injuries, complications, and death), with care tailored to the individual.

What is Evidence-based Maternity Care? - Improving Birth

(Table footnote references and full article appear here) “Standard” or “routine” care (the care that the vast majority of women receives) in most hospitals in the U.S. is not evidence based. That is, it is not based on the most current, reliable scientific research. Here’s a great article that outlines “what everyone ought to know” about evidence-based maternity care. This breaks it down in easy-to-understand examples, with good research and references. But why don’t we practice evidence-based care? The answer is not simple.

Part of the problem is systemic. It starts with medical and nursing education, where the focus is on what can go wrong during birth, not how to facilitate a normal, uncomplicated vaginal birth. * - and. Evidence-based Maternity Care for Everyone. Evidence Based Birth. Mothering.com: Pregnancy, Babies, Natural Family Living, and More. Monitoring Resources - Childbirth.org. Ask the Pros Pregnancy Photos Pregnancy Calendar Birth Plans Birth Stories Bookstore Boy or Girl Cesareans Chat Room Children Complications Doulas Educators Episiotomy FAQs Feeding Baby Fertility Finding a Class.

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Your Baby's First Exams: The Apgar And Other Tests. The Apgar Test If your baby is born in a hospital, she'll have her first medical test when she's just one minute old.

Your Baby's First Exams: The Apgar And Other Tests

It's a standardized test called the Apgar Test, and it checks your newborn's color, heart rate, reflexes, muscle tone, and breathing. She's tested again four minutes later. Most babies score a seven at the five-minute mark, which means they're in good to excellent condition. A score of four to six may indicate a medical problem; below four, a medical emergency. The Apgar Table I. 0--Pale or blue skin; if your baby has dark skin, they'll check the mucous membranes in her mouth, the whites of her eyes, and her lips, palms, hands, and soles of her feet 1--The body's pink, but the extremities are blue 2--Pink skin all over II. 0--Not detectable 1--Below 100 2--Over 100 III. 0--No response to stimulation 1--Grimace 2--Lusty cry IV. 0--Flaccid (no or weak activity) 1--Some movement of extremities 2--A lot of activity.

The Brazelton Scale: What Is It?, The Brazelton Institute - Children's Hospital Boston. While babies may not speak their first word for a year, they are born ready to communicate with a rich vocabulary of body movements, cries and visual responses: all part of the complex language of infant behavior. The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) was developed in 1973 by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues. The scale represents a guide that helps parents, health care providers and researchers understand the newborn's language. Baby Names Database at StorkNet's Baby Names Cubby. Baby Names, Name Meanings, Baby Boy Names, Baby Girl Names. The Artificial Womb Is Born. ''One by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured . . . and already the bottle had passed on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.'' Aldous Huxley, ''Brave New World'' The artificial womb exists.

The Artificial Womb Is Born

In Tokyo, researchers have developed a technique called EUFI -- extrauterine fetal incubation. They have taken goat fetuses, threaded catheters through the large vessels in the umbilical cord and supplied the fetuses with oxygenated blood while suspending them in incubators that contain artificial amniotic fluid heated to body temperature. Yoshinori Kuwabara, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Juntendo University in Tokyo, has been working on artificial placentas for a decade.

Kuwabara and his associates have kept the goat fetuses in this environment for as long as three weeks. Between Womb and Air. Artificial Womb (Uterus)