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Nutritional Preparations to Help With Labor by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility The other day I was reading through some blogs and came across a story about the correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and an increased risk of C-sections. The article, Vi ... Read on »

Cervical Dilation and Effacement by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility “Cervical dilation” and “effacement” are terms that you will hear your care provider talk about toward the end of your pregnancy and throughout your labor. These terms refer t ... Read on »

Estimate Fetal Birth Weight and Shoulder Dystocia by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility In the past week I have heard two rather disturbing stories from my students. One student came back and told me the unlikely unfolding of her birth story: the mother hit her ... Read on »

The Birth - Insurance Relationship and Ways to Avoid a C-section by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Before I became involved in the prenatal yoga and childbirth education world, I associated childbirth with a cute cuddly baby, happy parents and fuzzy teddy bears. Now, I thi ... Read on »

Breathing for Labor, A Yogic Point of View by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I am going to go out on a limb and say: “I strongly believe the best breathing for labor is deep-belly breathing!” There, I said it. This may upset some, or contradict what ot ... Read on »

Dispelling a Myth About the Umbilical Cord by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility My friend and future midwife, Jocelyn, passed this article on to me. I thought it was a great piece to post on the blog since I often hear women say, “Thank goodness I had a ... Read on »

Birth Plan vs Hospital Protocol by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I often encourage my students and doula clients to take some time to figure out how they foresee their birth. This is, of course, with the understanding that nothing - especia ... Read on »

PROM: Premature Rupture of the Membranes by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility In the movies and on TV the onset of labor is often depicted with the expectant mother experiencing a big gush of water and immediately thrust into active labor. As exciting a ... Read on »

Study: Home Birth With Midwife As Safe As Hospital Birth by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility My very good friend, Liz, recently told me she is pregnant with her third child. I had the thrill and privilege to be her doula for the first two births and was so excited whe ... Read on »

Perineal Massage by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I am often asked about the usefulness of perineal massage for expectant mothers. To be completely honest, I haven’t heard much feedback about it either way. I decided to inve ... Read on »

Video: Reducing Infant Mortality by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility This new video by Debby Takikawa has recently been released. It is definitely worth the time to watch! Reducing Infant Mortality from Debby Takikawa on Vimeo. Read on »

The MUST Have Talk Before Labor by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Recently I was at a couple’s apartment doing a private childbirth education class. We went through quite a bit of information that covered everything from pain management tec ... Read on »

Your Abdominal Muscles Can Help You Push Your Baby Out by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Many women think that the abdominal region is off limits during pregnancy, when in fact it is even more important to maintain strength and stability in the core to help suppor ... Read on »

Updating a Standard: Fetal Monitoring by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Take a moment to read this article about External Fetal Monitoring from yesterday’s New York Times. It has become a real issue and a routine practice in so many hospitals. ... Read on »

Hospital’s Oxytocin Protocol Change Sharply Reduces Emergency C-Section Share by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility One of my fellow chidlbirth advocates turned me onto an article about the correlation of pitocin usage and emergency cesareans. Interestingly, as the usage of pitocin increas ... Read on »

Do We Over Value Technology to Personal Touch by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I just received my copy of New York Magazine yesterday and noticed that it was the “Best Doctors” issue. I eagerly opened it to see if I knew any of the featured doctors, sin ... Read on »

The US Has One Of The Worst Maternal Mortality Rates In The World. Why? by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility FACT: The United States ranks 42nd in the WORLD for maternal mortality rates FACT: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that there has been no improvement in the mater ... Read on »

The Gate Control Theory of Pain in Childbirth and the Epidural by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility Last night I was teaching a refresher childbirth education class to a couple. The father is a physician and the mother is an occupational therapist - so when I started talking ... Read on »

Recent Artcile, Childbirth: Can the U.S. Improve? by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I love when childbirth related articles fall into mainstream media. The Sunday, LA Times published an article, “Childbirth: Can the U.S. improve?”. It highlights some of the ... Read on »

Educate Yourself, Know Your Birth Options by Deb .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Pregnancy & Fertility I was really struck by a quote from Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer, authors of A Good Birth, A Safe Birth, who said: “If you don’t know your options, you don’t have any.” From ... Read on »

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