https://www.motherrisingbirth.com/2018/10/fire-your-ob OBs play very influential roles in women’s lives during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Having the right or wrong person at your birth can make or break your vagina. Literally. Unfortunately, sometimes the doctor or midwife a woman chooses in the first trimester turns out not to be such a great fit as pregnancy progresses. But how shouldContinue reading “15 Signs That It’s Time to Fire Your OB, Now! | Mother Rising”
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Labor Day: We Asked a Midwife What to Expect
https://goop.com/work/parenthood/labor-day-we-asked-a-midwife-what-to-expect/ If there’s one thing the experts agree is guaranteed about pregnancy and birth, it is that “it will likely be very different from whatever you might be imagining.” This is Julia Bower, a CNM (certified nurse midwife) in Austin, Texas. Bower has delivered over 800 babies in her over her twenty-plus-year career. In case youContinue reading “Labor Day: We Asked a Midwife What to Expect”
Early-morning births are genetically programmed
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21741136-small-hours-provided-evolutionary-advantage-early-morning-births-are “THE notion that nothing good happens after midnight does not seem to apply to times of birth. Around the world the peak hours for vaginal births that have not been induced by drugs fall between 1am and 7am; the numbers then dwindle throughout the rest of the day. This has led many scientistsContinue reading “Early-morning births are genetically programmed”
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