Christy days, “Far too many women are not yet in a powerful enough position within their societies to claim their basic human reproductive rights to a safe pregnancy.”
The FDA has been receiving reports of deaths and near-deaths from use of products containing benzocaine. Mercola.com reports:"Methemoglobinemia has been reported with all strengths of benzocaine gels and liquids, and cases occurred mainly in children aged two years or younger who were treated with benzocaine gel for teething."
I have a sneaking suspicion that the current acceptance (in some places) of birth plans is either lip service only or a clever marketing tool to get women to feel more comfortable when they should be running for the hills.
A birth plan IS:-A way for you to figure out what you really want, what is most important to you and to organize your thoughts.-It can help you visualize your "ideal" birth and then find out if your care provider/birth place is on board with your desires. -It can help you communicate in an organized way your desires and needs without forgetting something during your visit.-A birth plan can help you and your partner talk about things, realize where you agree and differ and really discover the many many choices that pop up once you have conceived a child.A birth plan is NOT:- A guarantee that your provider will do anything that you have in it. (Yes, this is true even if they nod and smile, even if they give it lip service and even if they sign it.)-It is not a non-combative, "I'm afraid of you and your white coat and I don't really want to question your authority" way to communicate with your care provider and magically get all your deepest desires fulfilled.-It is not a force field surrounding you from typical, routine, and stupid hospital interventions.-It it is also not a way to somehow control the birth experience. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you make and execute a birth plan.
So, should you have a birth plan? Yes, I completely advocate for them ONLY IF you understand its limitations and purpose. To learn more about birth planning, please visit Birthologie.com
...infants born at 37 weeks are nearly 23 times more likely to suffer severe respiratory distress than those born between 39 and 41 weeks.
- Obstetricians deliver but don’t care for newborns. They move quickly from birth to birth, and lack a complete understanding of the complications associated with early deliveries.
- Natural deliveries are difficult to anticipate. Nature can be fickle and tends to ignore the schedules of busy physicians. Patients may simply agree because they see little harm in early deliveries.
The average cost of caring for a premature baby is $41,610 versus just $2,830 for a full term baby. A clear line can be drawn between more early term births and more days spent (and dollars generated) in the NICU. Increasing the numbers of preterm births creates a perceived need for additional NICU beds, thereby increasing the need to fill those beds. A self perpetuating cycle quickly emerges.
Such a cycle can be broken, as illustrated by Intermountain Healthcare. This Utah and Idaho-based health system reported a 30% rate of early induced labor in 2001 before introducing a protocol that explicitly urged doctors to avoid performing early inductions unless medically necessary. At first, some obstetricians didn’t see a problem. Convincing them required bridging the‚ “information gap,” between what doctors thought they knew and the evidence-based reality.By 2004, Intermountain’s rate of early elective deliveries had plummeted to 5%. They have since brought this rate even lower to 2%.
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about babies first and changing the way we pay for births. Simply put, as hospitals reduce their early elective deliveries, they’ll see reduced NICU profits. Intermountain is a capitated health system, so there is little incentive to provide unnecessary care. TEarly elective deliveries involve more care at a very great cost – a baby’s health.
A database compiled from state birthing records revealed that, all factors considered, women are at least 17 percent more likely to have a cesarean section at a for-profit hospital than at one that operates as a non-profit. A surgical birth can bring in twice the revenue of a vaginal delivery.
"There are factors that are attractive to hospitals in terms of training and staff and facilities,” he said. “It’s a lot easier if you can do all your births between seven and 10 in the morning and know exactly how many operating rooms and beds you need.” Vaginal births are unpredictable, creating inefficiencies that can hurt the bottom line.
Smith and her colleagues suggest that health professionals should “teach pregnant women about the sexism they might encounter” when they choose to breastfeed. In terms of society as a whole, they argue the only way this bias will diminish is for more women to breastfeed openly.You 'hear' that? If women want to be treated with more respect and autonomy, they better start breastfeeding in public en masse.
“More visible breastfeeding mothers should prompt people to wrestle with and debate the issues,” they write. “With time, greater numbers of women who breastfeed translates to less prejudice.”
Pediatricians will often tell you that breastfeeding past 6 months or 1 year no longer benefits the child, despite recommendations from the AAP and the WHO encouraging an extended breastfeeding relationship beyond 1 year. But those pediatricians are wrong. Nursing into toddlerhood has many benefits, adn know we know that it gives your child an advantage intellectually! To learn more about breastfeeding, please visit Birthologie.comA three-year study of 128 mammal species, including humans, found that longer pregnancies and longer suckling times produce bigger brains in babies - possibly leading to a higher IQ.... 'And we have discovered that brain growth in babies is linked to the amount of time and energy mothers invest in their child. 'There is a strong relationship between specific issues in the way a mother invests in producing her offspring and a link between growth of the foetus and length of gestation.
....In that trial, progesterone did not reduce the rate of preterm birth. The rate remained what it had been in similar women before the trial began. Instead, the rate in the control group was much higher than before, and that’s what created the difference between groups. Moreover, the rationale for progesterone is quieting the uterus, but it didn’t do that either. Just as many women in the progesterone group as the placebo group needed treatment for bouts of preterm contractions. Furthermore, another, bigger trial reported no difference in preterm birth rates. So much for “effective.” As I also pointed out in the earlier post, we have no data on the long-term effect of exposing fetuses to weeks of excessive levels of a sex hormone.
A randomized controlled trial of group prenatal care by midwives was published in 2007 in Obstetrics and Gynecology—in other words, hardly buried in an obscure journal....The preterm birth rate was 14% in the standard care group versus 10% in the group prenatal care group, a one-third risk reduction after controlling for factors that increase risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. In African-American women, the reduction was even more striking: 16% versus 10%. Nothing, nothing anyone ever has tried has reduced preterm birth by a third in a general population.
preterm delivery is strongly associated with chronic maternal stress. Group prenatal care builds community and helps women feel more competent and confident, as shown by the trial’s other positive outcomes: women in group sessions were less likely to have suboptimal prenatal care, knew more about pregnancy, felt better prepared for labor, were more likely to initiate breastfeeding, and were more satisfied with their prenatal care. With social interventions, everyone wins, not just women spared a preterm birth.
"In an extraordinary development that will change the global debate about amalgam, the United States government has announced that it supports a “phase down, with the goal of eventual phase out by all Parties, of mercury amalgam.” This statement – a radical reversal of its former position that “any change toward the use of dental amalgam is likely to result in positive public health outcomes” – is part of the U.S. government’s submission for the upcoming third round of negotiations for the world mercury treaty."
As someone who was a victim of dental mercury amalgam poisoning (and has since recovered) I am happy this is FINALLY happening. It took way too long to accomplish, though. This is an example of buyer beware. just because your doctor and the government say it's safe, doesn't mean it is. You MUST do your own research and trust your gut! To learn more about childhood health, please visit Birthologie.com
What if I told you that your baby’s colic, cradle cap, ear infections, diaper rashes, allergies and sleep sensitivities were all one problem?
What if I told you that your mastitis, eczema, hives, pms, cramps, and gas were all one problem?
What if I told you that your baby acquired her problems from you? And that this problem contributed to things like arthritis, ADD, autism, lupus, infertility, endometriosis, and gluten sensitivity?
What if I told you you could solve these problems easily?
Would you do it? Who wouldn’t?
Yeast Overgrowth.
It’s the most underdiagnosed problem in the world, and is at the root of an endless list of ailments.
Internal yeast, or Candida Albicans, is part of the ‘zoo’ in our bodies and we need a certain level of it in order to be healthy. Yeast is responsible for eating our bodies away when we die. But when we have an overgrowth in our bodies, it can literally eat us alive.
While the liver is responsible for the management of yeast, yeast can overgrow in every part of our body. The overgrowth (known as Candidiasis) usually starts in the digestive system and gradually spreads to other parts of the body. It is also a type of parasite that is strong, invasive and usually attaches itself to the intestinal wall and becomes a permanent resident of the internal organs.
Candidiasis has the ability to produce 75 toxic substances that can poison the human body.
Candidiasis is so invasive that it enters the gastrointestinal wall in the form of fungus where it develops very long, root like structures that penetrates the wall breaking down the protective barrier between the intestinal tract and the bloodstream. This breakdown allows the entrance of foreign as well as toxic substances to the bloodstream where they can harm various body systems.
http://www.birthologie.com/parenting/taming-the-yeastie-beasties-part-2-the-symptoms-and-stages/
To find out what all the symptoms are, and effective treatment, please visit Birthologie.com
