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Big Medicine's blowback on home births
Why do U.S. doctors strong-arm women into our standard maternity care system? – By Jennifer Block, July 9, 2008 in the LA Times. Check it out. Jennifer is the author of Pushed, also an excellent… more →
Decatur Doulas
Big Medicine's blowback on home births
decaturdoulas wrote 11 months ago: Why do U.S. doctors strong-arm women into our standard maternity care system? – By Jennifer Bl … more →
Patience During Labor
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Patience after stalled labor advised Source: Obstetrics and Gynecology 2008; 112: 1109-15 Comparing … more →
Does Your Uterus Need Help?
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Excerpt from Born In The USA by Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, pp. 95-96. “When an obstetrician sets … more →
Film Screening: Orgasmic Birth
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: WHEN: Sunday, September 7th, 3-5pm WHERE: The Plaza Theater, 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave. ADVANCE TICKE … more →
National Perinatal Association's Position Paper on Choice of Birth Setting
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Quote from the position paper: “A 2008 Cochrane Database review of ‘Home vs. Hospital Births’ conclu … more →
Perceived Low Amniotic Fluid & Induction
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Q: A lot of women these days seem to be getting their labor induced because they have oligohydramnio … more →
Film Event in August
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Decatur Doulas will be hosting a screening of The Business of Being Born on Sunday, August 17 at 4pm … more →
The Doula Phoenix
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: “In North America, social birth disappeared in the twentieth century: women no longer needed l … more →
Triple Screen
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: This from a friend in Atlanta, names have been changed… “I remember when Susan was pregn … more →
Surrender
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: “To truly give birth you have to surrender to the process of birth, which is to suspend a cons … more →
Birth Plan Article from AJC
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an article from the AJC about birth plans. The author claims that some care providers … more →
"Overdue"
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Excerpt from The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth, by Henci Goer, pp. 55-56. “Th … more →
Trendy Birth: An Odd Dichotomy
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: Trendy Birth: An Odd Dichotomy Recently the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACO … more →
Facts of American Birth
decaturdoulas wrote 1 year ago: 1. Today the US leads the “modern” world with 1 out of 8 of our babies born prematurely … more →
