The Rare Truth about "Tight" and "Loose" Women. Birth Without Violence - Part One. This website has not been updated for some years.
This website has been left as it may still contain useful content. by Frederick Leboyer "To be born is to suffer. Birth can reawaken the trauma of rape. Eight out of ten women who have been raped as an adult have complications during their first birth.
Yes! Orgasms During Birth Are Real, Study Suggests. When Elena Skoko gave birth to her daughter three years ago, she felt pain.
But she also felt something else: waves of pleasure so ecstatic they compared to an orgasm. "I had this wavy sensation of blissful waves going through me," said Skoko, a singer and author of "Memoirs of a Singing Birth" (lulu.com, 2012). Though childbirth is frequently spoken of in terms of pain and punishment, some women do experience what are known as orgasmic or ecstatic births. A new survey, available online May 3 in the journal Sexologies, finds that midwives report witnessing orgasms in about 0.3 percent of births. Anatomically, orgasmic birth is no surprise, said Barry Komisaruk, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey who studies orgasm. Wanting to Induce, Hospital Sends Police to "Overdue" Pregnant Mother.
Good thing this wasn't me...
I would have had plenty of police visits as our local Virginia hospital started heavily pushing induction at 36 weeks. I never went back after the dominoes started falling (those leading to the ubiquitous 'domino effect' of U.S. hospital birth) and continued with our planned homebirth, which began in our baby's own perfect timing at 44 weeks, 1 day. For more on why 'due dates' are fictitious, see these articles: Why Pregnancy Due Dates are Inaccurate. Comparing the odds of postpartum haemorrhage in planned home birth against planned hospital birth: results of an observational study of over 500,000 maternities in the UK. Research article Andrea Nove1*, Ann Berrington2 and Zoë Matthews3 * Corresponding author: Andrea Nove andreanove@aol.com Author Affiliations.
The Hard Science of Supporting Low-Tech Birth. Studies show that many interventions increase risk to mother and child instead of decreasing it.
In fact, the most scientific birth is often the least technological one. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
What they don’t envision is the omnivorous, pantswearing science geek standing before them. Indeed, they become downright confused when I go on to explain that there was really only one reason why my mate—an academic internist—and I decided to ditch our obstetrician and move to a midwife: Our midwife could be trusted to be scientific, whereas our obstetrician could not. Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. Dolphin Midwives and Underwater Birthing. MIDWIFERY TRICKS. LOTUS Birth with PLACENTOPHAGY: for the client who wants EVERYTHING, buy a new thermal lunch bag with a zipper closing around the top.
Buy six freezer cold packs that will fit well into the thermal lunch bag. Have two packs in the freezer at all times. Soon after the placenta is birthed, create a little mini-fridge for it by putting one frozen pack on the bottom of the bag, then the placenta, then the second frozen pack and, then, do up the zipper with just the cord coming out of the corner of the zipped up bag. As soon as the cord separates (typically day 4 or 5), dehydrate and encapsulate the red, meaty parts from the maternal side of the placenta. You’ll know the placenta has been kept fresh by the smell i.e. it should smell like fresh meat.
C-Section NOT Best for Breech Birth. Physicians should no longer automatically opt to perform a cesarean section in the case of a breech birth, according to new guidelines by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada.
Released yesterday, the guidelines are a response to new evidence that shows many women are safely able to vaginally deliver babies who enter the birth canal with the buttocks or feet first. Normally, the infant descends head first. “Our primary purpose is to offer choice to women,” said André Lalonde, executive vice-president of the SOGC. “More women are feeling disappointed when there is no one who is trained to assist in breech vaginal delivery,” he adds. Gui226CPG0906.pdf (application/pdf Object) Woman to Woman Childbirth Education. Increased risk of developing asthma by age of three after Cesarean.
A new study supports previous findings that children delivered by Caesarean section have an increased risk of developing asthma.
The study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) suggests that children delivered by Caesarean section have an increased risk of asthma at the age of three. This was particularly seen among children without a hereditary tendency to asthma and allergies. Caesarean Births Pose Higher Risks For Mother And Baby, Study Finds. Women having a non-emergency caesarean birth have double the risk of illness or even death compared to a vaginal birth, according to a study from Latin America published by the British Medical Journal.
However, the researchers found caesarean delivery prevented deaths in breech born babies. The risks linked to caesarean births (whether chosen by the woman or her clinicians) are higher, regardless of variables such as demographics, medical and pregnancy history, gestational age of the foetus, pregnancy complications, where the baby is born and the skills of those helping to deliver the baby. Researchers randomly selected eight Latin American countries and from those, 120 also randomly selected health facilities provided complete data on 97,307 deliveries of babies during a three-month study period. These data came from the Latin American component of the WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health, specifically carried out for this study in 2005.
Delaying Childbirth Is Associated With Impaired Contraction Of The Uterus And Rising Rates Of Cesarean Section. Impaired contraction of the uterus (womb) may play a part in the association of advancing maternal age with increased cesarean rates according to new research. In a two part study, Professor Gordon Smith and colleagues (Cambridge University, UK) analyzed a large Scottish data base to characterize the association between maternal age and outcome of labor, specifically looking at what proportion of the increase in primary cesarean rates could be attributed to changes in maternal age distribution.
They then went on to study samples of myometrium (muscle from the wall of the uterus) taken during routine cesarean sections to determine whether muscle contractility varied with maternal age. Cesarean sections are associated with higher mortality and morbidity rates compared with vaginal deliveries. Unnecessary induction of labor increases risk of cesarean section and other complications, study suggests. A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica reveals that induction of labor at term in the absence of maternal or fetal indications increases the risk of cesarean section and other postpartum complications for the woman, as well as neonatal complications.
Induction of labor is common and increasing over time in many countries. A large proportion of women are induced for "social" and other "non-recognized" reasons. Led by Rosalie Grivell, BSc, BMBS, FRANZCOG, of the University of Adelaide's Robinson Institute, researchers performed a cohort study utilizing a dataset of 28,626 women with spontaneous onset of labor, induction of labor for recognized indications, and induction of labor for non-recognized indications. Uterine rupture is rare in the UK but increases with the number of previous cesarean deliveries. An analysis of the UK Obstetric Surveillance System published in PLoS Medicine shows that uterine rupture -- a serious complication of pregnancy in which the wall of the uterus (womb) tears during pregnancy or early labour -- is rare but for women who have previously had a caesarean section, the risk of rupture increases with the number of previous caesarean deliveries, a short interval since the last caesarean section, and with induced labour.
Kathryn Fitzpatrick and colleagues from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit based at the University of Oxford in the UK found that from April 2009 to April 2010, 159 women experienced uterine rupture in the UK, of whom 139 had previously delivered by a caesarean section. Fewer Injuries To Mothers And Newborns During Childbirth But More Could Be Prevented.
Injuries to mothers during childbirth decreased significantly between 2000 and 2006, according to the latest news and numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The number of mothers who experienced injuries while giving birth vaginally without the use of forceps or other instruments dropped by 30 percent. For mothers giving birth vaginally with the use of instruments and by cesarean section, injuries declined about 20 percent. Despite the declines, nearly 158,000 potentially preventable injuries occurred to mothers and infants during childbirth in U.S. hospitals in 2006. Specifically: Women covered by Medicaid were less likely to be injured while giving birth than privately insured mothers (127 vs. 185 injuries per 1,000 vaginal deliveries with instruments, respectively). Homebirth: Midwife Mutiny in South Australia.
Caesarean Births a Better Option for Mothers? I don’t know how to quite describe my distain for the article I recently saw published in Saturday’s (13th August, 2011) “West Australian” newspaper. It was a summary of an article which was published in the Victorian paper “The Age”. The article can still be viewed online My first reaction when I read this article was an eye roll (my husband should have known better than to show it to me, but I believe that he takes great delight in seeing me get angry over such childbirth issues).
I have just received a Masters in Midwifery, where my main focus has been breech birth so I have repeatedly picked the ‘Term Breech Trial’ (Hannah, Hannah, Hewson, Hodnett, & Willan, 2000) paper to pieces and contradict ever single recommendation that the authors made via more current and better controlled research. Save Birth, Change The World. Home. Birthing at Home - Homebirths Australia. Frequent sex can prevent pregnancy complications. Pre-eclampsia is hard on pregnant women. BIRTH IS NO REASON TO GO TO HOSPITAL. The Truth About Epidurals. By Carol Grayposted with author's permission read more from Gray at: CarolGray.com First a word or two about birth physiology: Labor is almost universally uncomfortable for mothers, and often painful for babies. 6 Tiny Things Doctors Do That Can Save (Or End) Your Life.
#3. Sunlight and Cuddles Do Miracles for Premature Babies Getty Premature babies face a whole bunch of problems on account of the fact that they're not finished turning into babies yet. 6 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Childbirth. You know what's scarier than death? Birth. The Evidence Says: Epidurals Do Impact Newborns. By Connie LivingstonRead more from Livingston at Childbirth Today.
Midwives Say Limiting Their Freedom to Practice Hurts Mothers, Children, Low-Income Families. Spa Pillow Water Birth Pools and tubs Accessories from Your Water Birth. The role of a doula in Victoria Australia. Scheduled deliveries raise risks for mothers, do not benefit newborns, study finds. Inducing labor without a medical reason is associated with negative outcomes for the mother, including increased rates of cesarean delivery, greater blood loss and an extended length of stay in the hospital, and does not provide any benefit for the newborn, according to a new study.
As the number of scheduled deliveries continues to climb, it is important for physicians and mothers-to-be to understand the risks associated with elective induction. The new findings, published in the February issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, only apply to women having their first child, and may not pertain to women having their second or third child. Consequences of Hospital Birth. The Myth of a Safer Hospital Birth for Low-Risk Pregnancies. By Dr.