Monthly Archives: July 2009

World Breastfeeding Week

August 1-7 is celebrating around the world as World Breastfeeding Week. This year the theme was breastfeeding in an emergency. The photo contest winners were so moving. I do hope that you will check them out. Be sure to head … Continue reading

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Does a Laboring Woman Have Any Rights?

I have been doing a lot of reading about the case of a woman who exercised her legal right to informed consent and refused a cesarean, and subsequently had her baby taken away because of it. This woman’s case hits … Continue reading

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Cochrane Review Finds No Evidence for Treating Group B Strep with Antibiotics

The following is the summary of the recently published Cochrane review, Intrapartum antibiotics for known maternal Group B streptococcal colonization, which found that giving antibiotics is not supported by conclusive evidence: Women, men and children of all ages can be … Continue reading

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The Unnecesarean Blog

Just a public service announcement that The Unnecesarean Blog has a slightly different address, please change your links. You can continue to read her thought provoking and engaging posts at: http://www.theunnecesarean.com

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Dr. Drew Sucks at Breastfeeding

I had caught a few episodes of “16 and Pregnant” on MTV this season. Mostly, I was disappointed at how many inductions were shown but all of the episodes I caught had vaginal births (albeit intervention-ful.) Tonight I turned on … Continue reading

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Lamaze Discusses Cesareans with Medscape

Lamaze International’s President, Dr. Pam Spry, discussed cesarean section with Medscape recently. Here is a small excerpt: Medscape: Are rates of surgical delivery being driven up by women or clinicians? Is this the age of Blackberry birth — scheduling everything … Continue reading

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ACOG Revises Induction Protocol

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issues a press release saying that there is a revision to it’s labor induction guidelines. The basics from the press release do not look very different from what I had heard … Continue reading

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My heart’s a twitter!

Okay, so I did twitter during labor last year when my daughter was born. That was considered a bit out there, now it’s not so out there. What are you doing on Twitter for Birth or any other activism? You … Continue reading

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Husband of A Birth Activist

What does it mean to be the husband of a birth activist? I was considering this as my husband and I were driving down the road today. We were discussing a couple with whom we had just had lunch. They … Continue reading

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Birth Videos from Mothers Advocate

These great videos are based on the Healthy Birth Practices from Lamaze and InJoy Video.

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