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Home Birth Study Finds Fewer Interventions

The Canadian Medical Association Journal has published a study that found the risk of infant death to be no different during a home birth attended by a registered midwife than that of a hospital delivery.  The hospital deliveries in this study were attended by the same pool of registered midwives that were in attendance of [...]

Got Ice Chips? Now You Can Have More Than That!

When you think of what is allowed during labor, do ice chips come to mind?  Fortunately, this may be changing soon.  How about some broth?  A bit of juice?  These may soon be available to women during normal, healthy labors.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released a Committee Opinion regarding the distribution [...]

Reduction of Oxytocin Reduces Emergency Cesareans

A recent article has been written in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that suggests increased doses of oxytocin be avoided at intervals less than 30 minutes apart.  It is suggested that as oxytocin use is decreased among women in labor, emergency cesareans significantly decrease as well. 
Two Chicago hospitals have followed oxytocin use in [...]

Water Birth

A water birth involves a mother giving birth in a warm pool or bath. (Never birth your baby in a hot tub or a hot bath – the heat will damage your baby.) Russian researcher Igor Tjarkovsky began studying the benefits of water birth to women in the 1960’s. More studies were done in France [...]