by Lisa | Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Cervical Scar Tissue – A Cause of Preventable Cesareans Dawn Thompson is the founder of ImprovingBirth.org. She has spent the past eight years on a mission to understand how scar tissue on the cervix affects women in labor, and to let the public know about it. In...
by Lisa | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Did you know that the umbilical cord has two arteries and one vein that are protected from crimping by a substance called Wharton’s Jelly? It keeps the cord rigid and flexible to protect the blood’s ability to flow through the cord even with a knot!...
by Lisa | Oct 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
This post discusses onset of labor. A woman is commonly considered in labor when her cervix is progressively opening and continuing to open. Stages of labor are the first stage of cervical dilation, the second stage of “pushing” or until the actual birth...
by Lisa | Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Geradine Simkins, CNM, MSN, Executive Director, Midwives Alliance of North America Link here http://mana.org/index.php?q=blog/home-birth-safety-outcomes In today’s peer-reviewed Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (JMWH), a landmark study** confirms that...