Midwives

B.C. midwives sound warning

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

Midwives in B.C. are raising the alarm about a potential slowdown in the province's only registered midwife training program.

UK Gov't run health care: Afraid, in pain, alone, and giving birth

Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

This scenario could be coming to a hospital near you if Barack Obama and the Democrats get their way on government-run health care. From The Scotsman: More than one in three new mothers are left alone and worried during labour or shortly after giving birth, a poll found yesterday. The survey of more than 3,500 women logging onto Netmums.com also found 30 per cent received no antenatal classes through...

28 Weeks

Fresh Mommy (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

To my Baby Boy Blue, I can't believe it, you are about the size of a bag of flour! We had our visit with the midwife today, and everything is going perfectly. You are healthy, growing, and a little busy-body. At about 2 1/2 lbs now, you are really showing, and making me feel all the changes my body is going through. We can tell how you are laying in my belly. This week I'll be traveling and I have...

Bloody Brilliant!

the life and times of Mrs.B (Free subscription) | yesterday

Seriously, it's been bloody brilliant the last few days! I have had the most excellent community midwife mentors who want to teach me so much. I have taken blood, done blood pressures, palpated women ante and post natal, measured bumps, helped with breast feeding, checked babies, weighed babies and so much more. It's a rush! the lovely Midwife I was with today, took a back seat and let me take the...

MAMA Gives Thanks!

PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | yesterday

The MAMA Campaign is moving forward with great energy and determination to include Certified Professional Midwives in health care bills this year! As the country enters the Thanksgiving Week, we want to take a moment to give thanks for the extraordinary strides made in a few short months on Capitol Hill for midwives and mothers . And we want to express our deepest appreciation to all of you : our supporters,...

a sex ed wishlist, part 2: the basics

... and a doula, too (Free subscription) | yesterday

(part two of a four-part series) So what do I wish for my son and any siblings who may come along for him? I wish sexual and reproductive education, as a matter-of-fact component of a well-rounded health education, were integrated into formal education from preschool through college. I wish all students were taught accurate and detailed anatomy, stuff that's important and extremely easy to understand...

Terms for conditions

Good Funeral Guide (Free subscription) | yesterday

The natural death movement in the UK was pioneered by the good old Natural Death Centre . Its philosophy grew out of the natural childbirth movement and its principles are broadly the same. It believes that by taking control and keeping interventions by strangers to a minimum, we improve the quality of dying for the dying person and its impact on his or her carers. In the matter of caring for the dead,...

News from "The Business of Being Born" and mybestbirth

PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | yesterday

November has been a great month so far, with a fabulous screening of The Business of Being Born in San Diego last week , and the news that our book Your Best Birth will come out in paperback on April 5th, just in time for the release of our new educational "My Best Birth" DVD. If you haven’t joined mybestbirth yet – click here to sign up and become part of our community. Have...

27 Weeks Today! "Your baby now weighs...

My I.V.F Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday

27 Weeks Today! "Your baby now weighs nearly 875g and measures 36.6cm from head to toe. His eyes open and close, he sleeps and wakes at regular intervals and he may suck a finger or thumb. Sweet dreams, little baby! Some experts believe that babies begin to dream by the 28 th week. What do they dream about? No one knows for certain but the brain is active this week as well. The characteristic...

Self-heating baby milk bottle Yoomi arrives in UK stores

nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday

A baby bottle called the Yoomi that heats milk to the perfect temperature at the touch of a button has gone on sale in UK stores. The bottle, which has already won a series of innovation and research awards, ensures that the milk is heated to between 32 and 34 degrees in just 60 seconds and stays warm for up to an hour. It can be recharged up to 100 times and even features an anti-colic teat which...

Preparing For Natural, Unmedicated Childbirth

Smockity Frocks (Free subscription) | yesterday

See Natural, Unmedicated Childbirth: How I Prepare for Part 1 of this series. In the time between my 6th and 7th pregnancies, I read A Midwife's Story which I found to be a fascinating and informative book detailing how modern day Amish women give birth at home with little to no complications. I found it so interesting to read about how they took childbirth to be another normal part of life, a regular...

A New Life

Cannelle et Vanille (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

It's hard to believe that a week ago today, I was writing a post about pears and panna cotta and only four hours later, our little Miren Lili came into our lives. Excuse me if I sound overly romantic, but it truly was a miracle. She was born at home with the help of my friend and midwife Alanna who has been the best midwife I could have ever asked for. It was a peaceful and healthy birth. We are quickly...

Rosemary Maher obituary

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

A Labour councillor, magistrate and union representative Rosemary Maher, who has died at the age of 81, served as a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, from 1974 to 1978. She held various offices within the party, including secretary of the then Stepney and Bethnal Green parliamentary constituency and ward treasurer. She was receptionist for various MPs and local councillors. She sat...

Festival Chorus Christmas Concerts at Marblehead’s Old North Church, December 5 and 6, 7.30 pm

Berkshire Review for the Arts (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The 29th annual Old North Festival Chorus Christmas Concerts, presented each year as part of Marblehead's Christmas Walk, will take place on Saturday, December 5 at 8 PM, and Sunday, December 6 at 7:30 PM in the sanctuary of the historic Old North Church Meeting House, 35 Washington Street, Marblehead. Festival Chorus highlights this year include: Magnificat in D by Jan Dismas Zelenka; Puer Natus in...

Midwives struggle to find work as Scots posts dry up

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

NEW midwives and staff wanting to return to work are struggling to find jobs in Scotland, it was claimed yesterday.

• Midwives struggle to find work as Scots posts dry up - Scotsman.com

The family-Planning Programme

vivian09 | 15/10/2009

The family-planning programme, secured on a voluntary basis as a people’s movement, seeks to promote responsible parenthood with a two-child norm, irrespective of gender, through independent choice of the method best suited to the couple. But progress is slow because the task is gigantic, involving 500 million people in the productive age group spread over 3.3 million sq. km of territory. Buy an Essay...