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Archive for October, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Breastfeeding, Pregnancy on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prodromal labor
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AAMI, Academic Training on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prodromal labor can be frustrating… some birth professionals will refer to it as pre-labor. We do not want to call it false labor because even if the labor pattern does not become active labor or we do not see progress in the form of continued effacement and dilation, it is doing something! My own experience [...]
Pregnancy and breastfeeding correlates to reduced breast cancer risk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Breastfeeding, Pregnancy on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As early as 1700, Bernardino Ramazzini, the Italian founder of occupational medicine, recognised that there was one female occupation whose members were far more likely to die from breast cancer than any other – nuns.
Evidence for the protective effect of having children and breastfeeding has accumulated in the years since.
There have been debates over which [...]
Women are strong
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged VBAC on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That quote I see frequently… “We have a secret in our culture… and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” (Laura Stavoe Harm).
Well, it’s TRUE!
I was honored to witness a mom VBAC last week. The words that come to mind are Amazing, Beautiful, and Magnificient. I choose to see the beauty [...]
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