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 have a friend who had a little boy with down syndrome a few months before Bryson was born. They didn’t know before hand, it was a surprise. I remember when they blessed their baby at church the spirit was SO strong and you just knew this baby was meant to be in their family.
I just read an amazing birth story of Nella. It was beautiful to read and I thought of my friend and the amazing, scary, but wonderful surprise they had when their sweet baby was born.
Have a kleenex handy if you go to read the story. But it is a beautiful, uplifting story.
I got this lovely invitation from the author of a book I reviewed. Birth Day and you are welcome to join in too!
Dear Ms. Ripley,
I just wanted to say thanks for your kind review of my book, “Birth Day”, last fall, and to invite you to participate in a book discussion coming up soon at LibraryThing.com. Hopefully it will be fun, virtually unstructured (not to say chaotic), and interactive. Just the thing for mid-winter blahs…
Where: LibraryThing.com
When: February 8-21
What to Bring: Your questions, comments, birth stories…basically, anything that comes to mind. (Snacks are okay, too. They’re kind of hard to share, though.)
How to sign in: If you’re not already a LibraryThing member:
2) Click on “Join Now” (there’s no obligation involved in joining)
3) Enter a new member name and password
4) Click “Join Now” again
5) Scroll down the right hand side of the page to “Author Chats”
6) Click on my name and fire away…
Hope to see you there!
Take care,
Mark Sloan
PS: Birth Day continues to get great reviews, both in press and from readers. You can read more at http://www.marksloanmd.com.PPS: Please pass this invitation along to anyone you know with an interest in birth and babies!
I got this book a few weeks ago in the mail so I could read and review it.
Frankly with the holidays and traveling and another trip coming up, I haven’t found the time to read it.
I quickly looked through it today and I am now intrigued. I am lucky in that I don’t have Female Pain (if I did, I am sure I would have read it as soon as I got it!) But there are women out there who do suffer and this looks like a GREAT resource for them.
I am setting a goal to read it in the next few weeks and come back with a real review.
“I’ve been a judge for about 35 years, and I’ve seen most everything, but this one was novel, and different.”
Judge Nettesheim thought about offering her a few minutes to give her child the meal before giving her guilty plea.
“I had considered whether I should suspend the case momentarily, to allow the woman to complete the breast-feeding, but it was a busy calendar inasmuch as the event did not interfere with my ability to conduct with the proceeding, and did not appear to interfere with the defendant’s ability to understand the ability, and raised no concern on the part of our lawyer. I simply felt that it was appropriate to go forward.”
demonstrate how hard it is for people to wrap their minds around the idea that un-medicated birth can be comfortable.
Well, it can be. I have seen it many times as a doula and experienced it myself with my last birth.
This month I am posting a Hypnobabies Birth Story each day on the Hypnobabies Blog. I wish every pregnant mom would read them and take the time to look into the idea of using Hypnobabies!
Maybe the movie will show how being an informed consumer and making choices about what is best for you is the way to go. Maybe it will highlight moms having wonderful natural birth experiences. Maybe one will use Hypnobabies!
Avoid interventions that are not medically necessary.
This is wonderful advice, but how can you do this?
Choose Your Care Provider Carefully!
How can you know if your Care Provider uses unnecessary interventions? Ask Questions!
If you don’t like their answers, then change. It is never too late and is well worth the work.
Here is a story of Angela and how she changed care providers and hospitals 48 hours before her due date because they were pressuring her into an induction, even though she and the baby were fine!
I think that the best way to avoid unnecessary interventions is to have a care provider (and birth location) that doesn’t routinely use them! Almost every intervention has a good time to use it in some births, but to use them routinely for all moms, can actually cause problems instead of fix them.
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