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.
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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
Afghan women confront deadly task: Childbirth Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:04 AM
Filed Under: Kabul, Afghanistan By Adrienne Mong, NBC News CorrespondentHERAT, Afghanistan – Even for a country that generates grim statistics, this one looms large: One in eight women in Afghanistan dies during childbirth. Even more tragic is that the overwhelming majority of these deaths — 80 percent, according to the United Nations — are easily preventable."It’s not easy for women to have health care," said Dr. Qudsia El-Yar, a 41-year-old gynecologist who works at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western Afghanistan.
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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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 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.
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