Welcome to San Diego Birth Network

Changing Birth in San Diego - One Family at a Time

San Diego Birth Network is a group of dedicated professionals that support mothers, babies, and families during the prenatal, birth and postpartum period. Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period are milestone events in the continuum of life. These experiences profoundly affect women, babies, fathers, and families, and have important and long-lasting effects on society.Our mission is to create a place that allows families the confidence that the professionals listed believe in the normalcy of the birthing process and empower families with knowledge so that they can make educated decisions about their care.

FROM WOMB TO WORLD
The Journey That Shapes Our Life
September 24, 25 & 26, 2010
A 3-day dynamic Audio-Visual Workshop
By Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE, Doula
Hosted by
The Nizhoni Insititute of Midwifery and San Diego Birth Network
18 BRN's and CEU's Available

This profoundly transformational and highly informative course is designed for birth professionals, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, prenatal yoga instructors, couples planning to conceive or currently pregnant and anyone seeking to understand, prevent and heal from birth imprints & trauma.

New Guidelines Aim to Encourage Vaginal Births After C-Sections

The country's main professional group of obstetricians published "less restrictive" guidelines Wednesday that could lead to more vaginal births after C-sections, or VBACs.

"What the guidelines emphasize is that a trial of labor is a reasonable and appropriate alternative for many women with a prior cesarean delivery," says Jeffrey Ecker, a Harvard associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology who co-wrote the new guidelines from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. That includes women with two previous C-sections and those carrying twins. Read More

Circumcision Information for Health Professionals and Parents

The history of medicalized circumcision is a fascinating study in Victorian medicine and anti-sexuality.1 The phenomenon of circumcising boys and girls for pseudomedical reasons was almost exclusively confined to the Englishspeaking world. American pseudomedical circumcision began in 1870 when New York physician Lewis A. Sayre treated a boy for paralysis by amputating his foreskin.2 The operation appeared to succeed. Thereafter circumcision was relentlessly promoted as a necessity for hygiene as well as a treatment for all sorts of illnesses, including masturbation, epilepsy, elephantiasis, insanity, asthma, alcoholism, hernia, premature ejaculation, penile cancer, cervical cancer, and virtually every other identified ailment3

Pitocin: The Whole Story

By Jeanne Ohm, D.C., F.I.C.P.A. Originally Printed in: I.C.P.A. Newsletter January/February 2000 In one day's time I received two calls asking about the relationship between the administration of pitocin and neurologically compromised infants at birth and my intuitive antennas went off. Pitocin is a synthetic version of oxytocin the naturally produced hormone in the laboring woman.

Baby's Bedding: Is It Creating Toxic Nerve Gases?

by Joanne B. Quinn, RMA, PhD

© 2002 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today, Issue 61, Spring 2002.]Research done over the past 13 years in Great Britain and New Zealand indicates that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is an environmental poisoning in the crib. In 1988, Barry Richardson, a British chemist specializing in deterioration and preservation of materials, and Peter Mitchell, a marquee specialist, were working on Mitchell's deteriorating marquee, awnings and party tents. Mitchell's marquee supplier told him that the chemicals in awnings and tents were the same chemicals that had been approved for use in baby mattresses. Mitchell also learned from Richardson that these same chemicals could be converted into nerve gas. Mitchell and Richardson decided maybe there was a connection here to SIDS. The research by Richardson began immediately.

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