Great article on legendary midwife Ina May Gaskin. (click to read)

Part 2 of a great blog on doulas from a dad’s perspective. Click to read!

Read Part 1 here:

http://dareallalucedoula.com/2012/04/02/i-challenge-you-to-a-doula/

“Although much effort has gone into promoting early skin-to-skin contact and parental involvement at vaginal birth, caesarean birth remains entrenched in surgical and resuscitation rituals, which delay parental contact, impair maternal satisfaction and reduce breastfeeding. We describe a ‘natural’ approach that mimics the situation at vaginal birth by allowing (i) the parents to watch the birth of their child as active participants (ii) slow delivery with physiological autoresuscitation and (iii) the baby to be transferred directly onto the mother’s chest for early skin-to-skin. Studies are required into methods of reforming caesarean section, the most common operation worldwide.”

More must be done to reduce the threat posed by elective deliveries of healthy babies before 39 weeks, which often are scheduled for reasons that have more to do with convenience than with health… (click to read on Huffington Post)

Good blog about when epidurals ARE a blessing to a laboring mom…(click to read)

Click to watch this great video on rebuilding the pelvic floor.

Great article on epidurals. Click to read…