Your baby apparently being in the ‘wrong’ position means your body is giving you the equivalent of a warning light going off – and YOU need an answer – something needs to change. If you are not up for this, please stop here. If you are after a solution and you know that you can […]
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INDUCTION – Heather’s position statement. As a continuity of care practitioner one who looks after you and all of your family through all your life and phases, I support nature and life in all things. I do not support modern obstetric practices as they are too dangerous – especially to mum and baby bonding. If
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A report on the results of 22 international studies, published in a recent edition of the Australian Health Review, revealed something curious. It found that low-risk pregnant women being cared for by midwives were more likely to have a normal birth than equally low-risk women being cared for by a doctor. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/birth-is-no-time-for-war-stories-20120622-20tvt.html#ixzz1yaEoUmXJ
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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?
Who would have thought?? C&P from Science News… Planned home birth with registered midwife as safe as hospital birth Published: Monday, August 31, 2009 – 12:31 in Health & Medicine The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a planned hospital birth, found a study http://www.cmaj.ca/press/cmaj081869.pdf published
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AIMS Journal, Spring 2000, Vol 12 No 1 Emergency hysterectomy has to be done occasionally to save the mother’s life at delivery when there is uncontrollable haemorrhage. A recent report from St. George’s Hospital in London shows that emergency hysterectomies at delivery have increased seven-fold in recent years. Between 1992 and 1998 the unit did
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Too early? AIMS Journal, Winter 1999/2000, Vol 11 No 4 A review of babies in the Northern Region born at 34 weeks or more who needed ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome, has shown what a huge difference a couple of extra weeks in the womb can make. Since 1950 the WHO has defined births between
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AIMS Journal, Winter 1999/2000, Vol 11 No 4 A study of over 18,000 deliveries from Jordan found that previous caesarean section increased the risk of placenta praevia (the placenta growing low down in the womb where it partially or completely the baby’s exit) from 0.25% to 1.87%. The greater the number of previous caesareans, the
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Placenta accreta is a condition where chorionic villi from the placenta have grown down into the muscles of the uterus and there is no clear separation between the placenta and the wall of the uterus. This means that the placenta cannot be easily removed without risk of torrential haemorrhage, which can kill the mother, or
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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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