Labor of Love Childbirth Services

05/27/2020

This should be required reading for every man who wants to be involved in maternity care.

05/25/2020

Brilliant work, as usual, by Robbie Davis-Floyd.

(2020). Pregnancy, Birth and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Medical Anthropology. Ahead of Print.

05/11/2020

Kinda ups the anti, dontcha think?!

Hospital beds that be transformed into coffins are being billed as a grim solution for shortages on both items amid the coronavirus pandemic.

04/13/2020

This is "Step Inside the Circle" by Fritzi Horstman on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

03/08/2020

While the national VBAC rate is increasing, it’s still likely to fall short of the federal government’s 2020 goal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

02/08/2020

Yeah but what about all the billing?! It’s pretty much become a major industry!!!

Offering all women third trimester ultrasounds did not reduce the rate of serious illness or death in babies in the first week of life.

04/01/2019

A nurse in New Brunswick has been fired over suspicions that she gave a labour-inducing drug to patients without their consent, as RCMP investigate as many as 120 emergency C-sections.

03/28/2019

Should we be putting hats on newborn babies? Or should we be avoiding them? Here are some compelling reasons, backed by research, to ditch the hat.

03/28/2019

Most parents look forward to the time their child leaves home and finds success and happiness in life.

03/28/2019

This is just another great example of how breastmilk varies depending on day, time, any illness mom or baby may be going through and so much more. Each jar varies in amount, color, fat content!

Katie Minard, a student at LA Tech decided to do an art instillation on the power of the female body and used breastmilk to show it. This is 2 weeks of pumping, in addition to nursing her daughter. Each jar represents a pumping session.

03/28/2019

One of these ladies is 40+2 and the other is 40+4 weeks pregnant. Both went into labour within 24 hours of these pictures. Both had 8lbs2oz babies, both girls.

Another thing both these baby bellies have in common? Their Symphisis Fundal Height is identical, 40cm.

When you hit 22-24 weeks in your pregnancy, your midwife will start measuring your belly. From your p***c bone, to the top part of your uterus - the fundus. This is how they monitor your babies growth curve. Usually the number of weeks you are is the number of centimetres you measure, give or take 2cm. If you fall off the curve your pregnancy has been following, your Midwife will offer you for necessary testing.

So the next time someone tells you you’re “too small” or “too big” for the number of weeks pregnant you are, point them this way!

03/28/2019

Brain waves line up when adults and babies lock eyes.

03/18/2019

Breastfeeding is a classic example of something that it is better to laugh about than to cry about and these 33 memes about breastfeeding will have you squirting milk out your nose (and other places).

03/15/2019

How often do women giving birth at individual hospitals experience heart attacks, seizures, kidney failure, blood transfusions or other potentially deadly problems?

03/15/2019

Largest Waterbirth Study Proves it is Safe In 2017, the Midwives of New Jersey hosted the New Jersey Symposium for Physiologic Birth: 2017 The Evidence

03/15/2019

The U.S. is the most dangerous country in the developed world to give birth, but hospitals’ childbirth complication rates are kept secret.

03/15/2019

A USA TODAY analysis of billing data from 7 million births found about one in eight hospitals have complication rates of at least double the norm.

03/15/2019

Reposting from birthofamama