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Waterbirth Basics – Water Birth in Hospitals (part 2)
Waterbirth By Barbara Harper, Founder and President of Waterbirth International and Global Maternal-Child Health (www.waterbirth.org) Waterbirth is simple. Within buy cialis online no prescription the simplicity of water labor and birth lies a complexity of questions, choices, opinions, research data, women’s experience and practitioner observations. Over the past five years as more hospitals within the United States examine waterbirth and …
Waterbirth Basics – Safety & the Baby (part 1)
From Newborn Breathing to Hospital Protocols By Barbara Harper, Founder and President of Waterbirth International and Global Maternal-Child Health (www.waterbirth.org) The first and WORK FROM NO HOME foremost question in everyone’s mind and the lead in all of these newspaper accounts is simple: How does the baby breathe during a waterbirth? There are several factors that prevent a baby from …
The Big Picture
Our routine practices make the American way of birth and mother-baby care the most expensive in the world. Yet they are based on fundamental misconceptions and ignorance of both traditional wisdom and current scientific research. Birth practi buy viagra online ces in America disempower and often traumatize the very people they are meant to serve… mothers and babies. Our prevailing …
Changes in Hospitals
Meaningful or just window dressing? For a brief period in the late 1970’s, rigid hospital policies across the United States started to break down. In direct response to a growing vocal minority of birthing women and their families who desired truly natural birth in the hospital setting, nurses and physicians began to simply turn their back on such rules as …
The American Way of Birth (which is being exported to the world)
Each year nearly 4 million babies are born in America. Fewer than 5% of these births occur naturally. The term “natural” has become meaningless, and the term “normal” is confused with what is typical. Obstetricians are trained to view birth as cheap soft cialis “a catastrophe waiting to happen.” The typical birth in this country is neither normal nor healthy. …