Orgasmic Birth showing in Minneapolis!
Birth Activists have banded together to bring Debra Pascali-Bonaro’s Orgasmic Birth film here to Minnesota, Thursday, September 25, 2008. The full length film will show one night only at the historic Riverview Theater. This post announces our new local website, www.MinnesotaOrgasmicBirth.com Buy your tickets online. They just may sell out. Business of Being Born sold […]
Midwife in Mozambique
PBS aired a compelling story about midwives learning to do cesarean surgery to fill the shortage of doctors in rural Mozambique. The young midwife featured is shown conducting a couple of repeat cesareans. One for a placental abruption for which uncontrolled bleeding leads to a hysterectomy. Another mother is given a repeat cesarean and she […]
Another risk of cesarean surgery
A 26-yr old woman was 8-weeks pregnant and experiencing some light bleeding. Her previous birth was by cesarean section. When an ultrasound was done to see the cause of her bleeding the technician could find no baby in her womb. Instead, the baby was developing in the separating edges of her cesarean scar! I wonder […]
Ricki and Jennifer Block the AMA
Isn’t it great how things line up sometimes? First, Betty-Anne Daviss and Ken Johnson lead the CPM 2000 statistical collection. The British Medical Journal published the good news. Canada and Britain took the results seriously and began improving their maternity care policies immediately. (Even though Canada has the best infant survival rate in the Americas. […]
Orgasmic Birth in the Twin Cities
An amazing gathering of concerned birth activists are joining talents to bring Debra Pascali-Bonaro to Minneapolis/St. Paul with her film, Orgasmic Birth. We are excited to have this venue to inspire women into a new awareness of their ability to give birth. You can buy a ticket to this event now. Thursday, September 25, 2008 […]
Menomonie Birth Center Visit
I’m staying this weekend at the Morning Star Womens’ Health and Birth Center in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Paula Bernini is the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) who nurtures this Victorian era “home” with antiques, birth motif and amazing garden. I don’t know how she does it. We spent some lovely time together weeding. Sitting for a cup […]
5/29/2008
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2008) — During labor, the continued presence of a doula – an experienced non-medical female companion who provides continuous labor support – has significant beneficial effects for middle- and upper-class women in childbirth, even when they have their male partner or other family member with them, according to a new study in […]
Michel Odent on Men at Childbirth
Read the Conscious Woman blog on Michel Odent’s comments about his Daily Mail interview about men at birth. In fact, here is Raquel’s post: Michel Odent on Men at Childbirth I just received another email regarding the Daily Mail article that quoted Michel Odent as having said that men should not be at the birth […]
Men at birth, Odent’s view
Dr. Michel Odent was interviewed on his view about men in the birthing room. His view is that men should not be present at birth. Read the article. There has been a lot of buzz in the local emails and I thought I’d share my response. This freedom from ideological shoulding at birth is what […]
updating site
Hang on, I’m updating the shareware for SpinningBabies.com It will look different and be different. You may not find what you’ve seen before. If you can’t find something important to you, email me and I’ll work on it. Be warned, though, I am not researching or giving advice on pregnancy and postpartum aspects that don’t […]
Intervention and support in difficult childbirth
More thoughts on how we give support in a long or difficult labor. Too often, birthing families are pressed between the policy and the clock. Care providers are concerned with how a labor looks on paper, in the chart. How will this labor look in court? Their concerns overshadow the relationship they have with the […]
Two Women’s Labors and the Quality of Care
Two women asked me about CPD earlier this week. CPD is cephalopelvic disproportion, meaning the baby doesn’t fit the pelvis. Two Birth Stories One woman was a first-time mother working with our home birth midwifery group. She was at the end of her pregnancy with an OP baby. Body work hadn’t helped her baby get […]
