If you are to have an elective C section, please ensure that you are double stitched up, not single stitched . . please read on .. AIMS Journal, Spring 2004, Vol 16 No 1 Risk of uterine rupture A single-layer, rather than a double-layer, closure of the incision after a caesarean may greatly increase the […]
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We often hear concerns from parents of babies taken into neonatal units after birth about the possible adverse effects of antibiotics that seem to be given routinely. They are also upset about the distress caused to the baby by injections or the insertion of needles or tubes. As all of us know nowadays, our intestines
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(in birthing) Often women are told that they are carrying Group B Strep. Can they birth naturally without intervention and more importantly – are antibiotics even necessary? Why not look back to nature? Ask why is the overgrowth of the bacteria there – and change the environment so the bad bugs are naturally knocked off.
(written 1999) There was my baby daughter, stuck in a well body with a ravaged brain. A baby brain – a relatively undifferentiated brain, one that had the potential to heal itself in ways that adult ones cannot. A quickly developing neurological system. If some of the dormant cells could be encouraged to take over,
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A – IN THE BEGINNING (written 2006 to attempt to get a decent day placement for her) Kathryn, my third child, was born in Brisbane, with an active toxoplasmotic infection, caught in utero, which nearly killed her. Once she was medically stable at about 6 weeks of age, a scan was done of her healing
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(written 1998) Some of this is fairly raw/ more like a journal for me to work out just ‘what was I doing???’ after the dust settled down. STAGE ONE – pregnancy – 1st few months – 1986 Initially, the awareness that she was not as her brothers in utero, that there was no sense of
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Yesterday I was speaking with a private hospital midwife who was relating a wonderful birthing story. She was with a mum who had an ecstatic water birth and who was in heaven. Mum had specified that a physiological third stage was exactly what she intended – and she was likely to have this with a
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Want to have the body you had before baby? Easy – start working to make it so as soon as you come home. Dad can easily spend a few minutes outside using moxa to help you feel better – and coincidentally – if there is a milk supply deficit – the instructions to fix this
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As easy as changing your focus. Why would you hurry nature? So far she has worked perfectly. Perhaps take more Magnesium, rest more and focus on what sort of mother you want to be. You will not be able to control anything about your baby after birth – as s/he is their own person. Why
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Breech – How to move baby so easy birthing is possible in today’s birthing climate? Breech babies present with their bottoms down and their heads up. There must be a reason? Maybe baby is comfortable like this? Maybe we can make the inside of mum more comfy to lie the way that the midwives/doctors are
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