13 hours ago by knoxvilledoula

What are the advantages to hiring a postpartum doula? Here is a short list of some of the services provided by postpartum doulas: Newborn baby care. This can be especially helpful if you are new to caring for a newborn and are looking for guidance and reassurance regarding activities such as bathing ...

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1 day ago by enjoybirth

Let’s help stir that pot! I didn’t watch when the Today Show showed the cesarean, but I have read the many comments and agree that it doesn’t help moms understand the risks of cesarean. I totally agree with what ICAN had to say! If it upset you, feel free to join in the Mother Size Activism to let N ...

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2 days ago by kgjames

I am annoyed by my cesarean recovery. I am more than 5 months post partum and still have pain and tenderness on the left side of my abdomen. I’m sure I must have a number of adhesions that need to be broken down. I did attend ICAN’s webinar about scar care and have been doing some massage. I use a f ...

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2 days ago by Danielle

I am glad that I was able to do a couple posts last week about cesarean recovery, as well as cesarean awareness since it is really a huge issue. Not many people really know the depth of the cesarean epidemic that really is taking place in our country. So the moment we have all been waiting for! The ...

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3 days ago by mcasserly

The Rise of Cesarean Births in the United States by Baby Steps 2008 In 1970, the cesarean rate in the United States was about 5% 2. The electronic fetal monitor, though invented in the 1960s 3, came into wide use in the 1970s. This device brought with it a rapid increase of cesarean rates. The studi ...

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4 days ago by Jenn

The Birth Activist recently wrote about restrictions of food and fluids for laboring and women, and how Robbie Davis-Floyd has written about this phenomenon as a “rite of passage.” The Birth Activist highlighted a recent Cochrane Review that found that food/fluid restrictions in labor are unnecessar ...

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4 days ago by mcasserly

This week, the “Today” show showed a live cesarean birth on their program touting the benefits of the surgery and glossing over the serious risks involved in the surgery. Here is the clip: The Today show – Cesarean The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) released a statement addressing t ...

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5 days ago by Violet

Women who've had a cesarean delivery are less likely to suffer complications if their wound is closed using sutures rather than staples, says a U.S. study. It included more than 400 women who underwent cesarean delivery in labor or scheduled cesarean delivery and were interviewed two to four weeks a ...

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6 days ago by Danielle

Most know I had been tossing the idea around for a long time about making my blog an actual .com and yesterday with a little extra time, a great friend to help ( Sarah from One Starry Night) and the encouragement of everyone on twitter telling me how awesome Wordpress is, I made not only the move to ...

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7 days ago by fee

I was not really sleeping the nights before D day. Having been so worried about the date the baby was going to be born, and the name, I was now just hoping that everything would go alright and the baby would be healthy. Everything else did not matter any more. The worry was intermingled with excitem ...

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