Skin-to-Skin in the O.R. after a C-section

Being born vaginally is good for babies, in part because it colonizes them with the mother’s good bacteria, setting them on the road to health; a C-section bypasses this normal process and may be part of the reason why babies born by Cesarean have higher rates of things like asthma. But putting the baby skin-to-skin [...]

Aww, how *sweet*!

If this doesn’t make you go into emotional sugar-shock… there’s just something wrong with you! Deaf baby hears his mother’s voice for the first time, after a cochlear implant.

Hope for pregnant women with heart disease

I just read this article and thought it was amazing. Often, women with pulmonary hypertension are advised not to get pregnant, and if they do get pregnant (or if they only find out that they have pulmonary hypertension while pregnant, which is unfortunately a common time for diagnosis), they are advised to undergo an abortion [...]

The Vulnerability of Men

That’s the name of a post on circumcision, written from a man’s perspective as to why circumcised men want their sons to be circumcised. If the father of your baby is circumcised, he will probably want your son to be circumcised. Why? Men who have been circumcised have an extremely difficult dilemma. For them to [...]

I like the way this guy thinks

After answering why he doesn’t like and thinks we shouldn’t say, “Breast is best,” (because it puts formula-feeding as the norm), he goes on to answer the following question: Q. Okay, breast is normal. But surely infant formula is second-best isn’t it? A. No, the second-best feeding option is obviously other breast milk, for example [...]

Why not to have an ultrasound

Some things serendipitously fall into my lap. I had been thinking about writing a post like this for a while, and then today found someone who said it even better than I did (plus has done the research that I haven’t done!) — Ultrasound and Fury: One Mother’s Ordeal. In short, her baby girl was [...]

All My Babies

If you’ve not seen this documentary you need to. From the description: Both educational tool and poetic portrait of a black midwife and childbirth in the Deep South. “This beautiful film is the story of “”Miss Mary”” Coley an African-American midwife more than half a century ago in rural Georgia. Conceived as a demonstration film [...]

How cool is this?

Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy has a facebook fan page, and once it reaches 500 fans (and it almost is!) author Laura Keegan is going to be giving away one copy of the book to five lucky fans. All you have to do is become a fan of (or “like”) Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy. [...]

International Day of the Midwife

Celebrate midwives and midwifery! If you like this video, pass it on.

Link Round-up

Ok, for lack of spare time, in conjunction with internet connection issues [long story, but my husband's LAN port shorted out or something so we can't both be on the computer at the same time], I have a whole bunch of interesting posts I’d like to share, and no time to discuss them. But I’m [...]