Where’s The Birth Plan? By Jennifer Block July 30, 2009 – 7:00am Published under: Leading Voices | Maternal Health Jennifer Block’s blog | Printer-friendly version | ShareThis Obama "won’t rest" until he’s cut health care costs and improved quality? Over here, Mr. President, says Jennie Joseph, a certified professional midwife who runs a birth center [...]
Home births ‘as safe as hospital’ There have been few comprehensive studies into home births The largest study of its kind has found that for low-risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife. Research from the Netherlands – which has a high rate of home births [...]
My youngest son, now 4 months old, was born at home with the help of a midwife who provided all of my care throughout pregnancy. He is happy and healthy, my care and his birth only cost me a small fraction of what a hospital birth and doctor’s care would have and not having health [...]
That’s right, Consumer Reports gives the low down on birth options. Read it HERE
I know that I have been telling potential clients this, and usually ones who want to hire me as a doula even though they are having a planned C section, because their friends had a doula or they saw it on some birth d show. Now that the LA Times has published something about elective [...]
My midwife and her labor partner just left after a 2 hour meeting. All of the pain I have been having (which I thought was in my cervix) is real labor – not Braxton Hicks – seems like my body is acting like an efficient little machine. Sadly though, the 5 hours spent last night [...]
My midwife came today for our monthly meeting. Everything went well, she had a new sphygmomanometer -which if I haven’t mentioned I am weird about certain things- that made me nervous. Her old one, which was big, loose and soft – finally broke, and she picked up a new one at the pharmacy that was [...]
