Following the trend toward inventing diseases and conditions that can be treated by new drugs on the market, the pharmaceutical world has presented women with a new condition that it can conveniently cure: too many periods. I discovered the condition on the back of the May/June issue of “Nurse Practitioner World News” sticking out of … Continue reading »
Your baby has just been born. Would you let someone draw their blood and remove 30% of their blood volume? It would be senseless and highly dangerous and to remove a third of the baby’s blood from their body before they were born, but doing this immediately after birth has become the norm. Continue reading »
Imagine a woman in labor at the hospital. How she is moving? Where is she in the room? What is she doing? Probably you see a woman lying down in the bed, wearing a hospital gown, hooked up to various monitors, straps and tubes. In some high-risk situations these things may truly be helpful for … Continue reading »
I recently attended a planned hospital birth of a client who transferred out of my care shortly before her birth. We transferred her care to our small, local, natural birth-friendly hospital. A gracious family practice physician took over her care. Two of my client’s main hopes for her birth were delayed cord clamping (of at … Continue reading »
An OB candidly shares her remarkable journey though three inductions, two cesareans, two vacuum assisted births, and one unplanned VBAC. Now a VBAC advocate, she shared her story on her blog: My Surprise VBAC “Needless to say, like most OB residents, my experience with normal, low-risk physiological birth was minimal……..Reflecting back over my journey, I … Continue reading »
