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Consumer Reports.org has just published an excellent article about ten procedures that may be more harmful than helpful during pregnancy and birth, as well as ten things to do during your pregnancy and five things to do before you become pregnant which can optimize your chances for a positive outcome. Tops on their list of things to avoid is a cesarean for a low-risk first birth.
Categories: For Parents
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says in the foreword of this important document, "We know what is needed to make pregnancy and delivery safe: access to health services, including skilled birth attendants and a functioning health care facility."
Categories: For Midwives
Reported in an article by KJ Dell'Antonia in the New York Times on April 2, "births during the last decade take longer than they did in the early 1960s — 2.6 hours longer for women having their first baby, and a little less than two hours longer for women who have given birth before."
Categories: Labor and Birth
Dr. Alice Dreger writes in the April 2012 issue of The Atlantic, "If you look at scientific literature, you find over and over again that many interventions increase risk to mother and child instead of decreasing it."
Categories: Labor and Birth
BOSTON, MA, Feb 2, 2012 - Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill that expands the privileges and responsibilities of nurse-midwives.
The governor has signed legislation that authorizes nurse-midwives to write drug prescriptions and order tests or therapeutics.
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Recent Articles
Home Births in the United States, 1990–2009 by Marian F. MacDorman, Ph.D.; T.J. Mathews, M.S.; and Eugene Declercq, Ph.D. The authors found that home birth is on the rise in the US.
Categories: For Midwives
In Washington, natural birth is big business! This article in the Washington City Paper describes the resounding success of a new midwifery practice at George Washington University Hospital under its director, Whitney Pinger, CNM. According to the article, "after running programs at Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Hospital, she came to GW last year, arriving like the LeBron of the up-market natural childbirth community." Click on the title to link to the article.
Categories: For Parents
Judith Rooks' article on the Safety & Risks of Nitrous Oxide Labor Analgesia will be published in the next edition of the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (JMWH). It has been published online ahead of the online publication of the journal issue. Click on the title to read the citation and abstract.
Categories: Pain Relief
A systematic review to be published in the September/October 2011 issue of Nursing Economic$ reports that care provided by certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) is associated with comparable or better outcomes than care managed exclusively by physicians.
Categories: For Midwives
LONDON (Reuters) Jun 20 - More investment in midwifery could save many of the millions of babies and hundreds of thousands of women who still die every year because of a lack of skilled healthcare during childbirth, the United Nations said on Monday.
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