If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday, we visited my dear friend and her brand new daughter who had just been born 12 hours prior to our visit. She still had that “new baby” smell on her!
I chatted with her mom and she told [...]
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Two-time Oscar winning actress, Emma Thompson is very proud of “giving birth without painkillers”. In fact she sees it as her biggest achievement in life. She says she is more proud of giving birth naturally than she is about her successful career. According to reports online, the British actress resorted to in vitro fertilization to [...]
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I am trying to make my birth experience as natural as possible. I’m prepared to forego an epidural and “tough it out,” and am firmly against Pitocin to induce labor. I respect every woman’s right to choose her own birth experience, but, for me, I feel that a fully natural, un-medicated birth is the best [...]
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Before there were doctors, there were already midwives, or however they were called then, women who helped other women at childbirth.
Nowadays, in many parts of the western world where medical care is state-of-the-art, the role of midwives in childbearing has been diminished. However, there are still other places, especially in less developed countries, where midwives [...]
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