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A recent article on The Fword, a contemporary UK online site, really hit home. Here is the link if you are curious: http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/03/not_a_happy_bir.Before I had read it I knew one of the reasons I started doing this work was to help ( Read more... )

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How we birth has a lifetimes worth of impact on not only us, as mothers, but on our children. A cesarean section can save the lives of a mother, her child, or both and it is a useful tool for us to have perfected. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a ( Read more... )

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A woman sits in her doctors office at 40 weeks, anxiously waiting for her doctor to come in. After 15 minutes or more in she or he comes, glancing at the chart before greeting the woman by name. “Well, baby isn’t here yet. I doubt she/he will come on his own. ( Read more... )

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Flu season always gets people worried. Those with asthma or other health risks especially so and, of course, pregnant women. However we have to really start looking more closely at the vaccines that are put out for the flu. For example there is the big ( Read more... )