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The Childbirth U website will teach pregnant women best care practices by putting the obstetric research at their fingertips–founded by author Henci Goer. http://ow.ly/xpkRg

“…makes you want to hop into a tub of warm water and start pushing.”
— NY Times http://ow.ly/xpmU4

Does the Hospital “Admission Strip” Conducted on Women in Labor Work as Hoped? http://ow.ly/xpmH5

Institute of medicine 2009 gestational weight gain guideline knowledge: survey of obstetrics/gynecology and family medicine residents of the United States. http://ow.ly/xplxx

“Eating and drinking in labor are safe. In three large U.S. studies totaling seventy-eight thousand women in labor who ate and drank freely, there was not one case of aspiration.” ~The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth, pg 76 http://ow.ly/i/5JrnL

My favorite benefit of ingesting placenta capsules is ___________. http://ow.ly/i/5JqPu

Position of the newborn baby before cord clamping does not seem to affect volume of placental transfusion. Mothers could safely be allowed to hold their baby on their abdomen or chest. This change in practice might increase obstetric compliance with the procedure, enhance maternal-infant bonding, and decrease iron deficiency in infancy. http://ow.ly/xpkyv

Forced cesareans turn women into mere containers for something more precious than they are. There are no other circumstances under which a competent adult can be forced to submit to any invasive medical procedure, let alone major surgery, in order to benefit another person. In fact, you can’t harvest organs for transplant from a dead body without permission, which ranks the rights of a living woman lower than those of a corpse. ~ Henci http://ow.ly/xpjYY

How a child’s food preferences begin in the womb http://ow.ly/xpjrk

Placenta Gives Girl Babies Winning Edge in Survival Battle http://ow.ly/xpiLr