* Ina Mays Guide To Childbirth, By Ina May Gaskin
* The Birth Partner, By Penny Simkin
* Birthing From Within, By Pam England
Birth Trauma
Who Cares if you had a Traumatic Birth?!- there are many people who care if you've had a traumatic birth. Includes resources to help you if you've experienced a traumatic birth.
Care Providers
Intuition & Healing: Tips to Find the Right Health Care Practitioner- This should be required reading for anyone looking for a health care provider, whether midwife or obstetrician. I would say these are even good tips for finding a great doula!
Cesarean Births
Dilation
Cervical Scar Tissure-This is a great article by Busca of Birth Faith about how certain procedures done to the cervix can impact dilation during labor. This is a must read for any woman that has had any kind of procedure involving the cervix.
How Dilated Am I? Assessing Dilation Without an Internal Exam-One of my favorites about how to tell how dilated you are from the outside.
Doulas
Emotions
Telling the Difference Between Intuition and Fear- Dr. Judith Orloff explains the difference between intuition and fear. Sometimes it is hard to tell them apart and find what is our TRUE voice of intuition.
Epidural Anesthesia
The Big Bad Epidural-It's not what you think! Read it! By Mrs. Birth Without Fear
Epidural Anesthesia Can Be a Good Thing-A great article by Emily over at Doula Ambitions blog about the benefits of epidural anesthesia. All too often in the natural childbirth community there is a message that epidurals are evil. Maybe it's true for many women, but for some women, the epidural may be the difference between have a beautiful birth or a traumatic birth. All women deserve a beautiful birth!
Fetal Positioning
Spinning Babies-every single article would be amazing so I am just linking to the site. A must read for every expecting mom.
Suboptimal Fetal Positions-A resource guide that has links and articles on fetal positions that may be less than ideal at the start of labor and during labor (such as a posterior baby) and what to do about it.
Labor
The Holistic Stages of Labor-I've always liked to think of labor as a journey and in this article written by midwife Whapio Diane Bartlett, she poetically describes labor as just that! A journey!
Sounding Your Labor: Are you In or Our of Control?-What kind of sounds do you make or are you planning to make during labor? Are you in control?
Low Amniotic Fluid (Oligohydramnios)
Homebirth
How Homebirth Benefits Babies-one of the most objective and unbiased articles about the benefits of homebirth I have ever read. This article does not try to persuade a mom one way or the other but just lists benefits and cites studies. Links to studies (or abstracts) are included.
Induction
Bishop's Score for Induction-if faced with induction, find out your Bishop's score! Read how here.
Induction, Encouragement, Eviction-this article by Nicole D., is one of the most impartial looks at induction techniques. Exams the following questions: What are the risks? How do I know if an induction will work? How do I know if I am a good candidate for induction? How are inductions done? What are alternative methods of labor induction? This is a must read for any women facing induction.
Pitocin not approved by the FDA for elective (or non-medical) inductions
Patient Rights
Pregnancy
Belly Binding for Pregnancy & Labor Support- An article by Gina Crosley-Corcoran of The Feminist Breeder about belly binding, which is particularly helpful for women who are having their second or subsequent baby and are experiencing stops and starts in labor.
VBAC
ICAN - international cesarean awareness network brings legal, medical, ethical, and practical information to consumers regarding cesarean rates and VBAC.
The recall on the epidural since Friday has been extended to those epidurals used for childbirth as well!
FDA expands recall list of tainted drugs as meningitis outbreak grows to 47 cases
Published October 05, 2012
FoxNews.com
Federal health officials have expanded the recall list of potentially contaminated injectable medications suspected in a multi-state meningitis outbreak and the death of five people. More and more cases are being reported, with 47 people having contracted meningitis in seven states.
The Food and Drug Administration released a list of 34 different drugs this morning that included steroids, epidural anesthetics used to block pain during childbirth, and surgery and saline solutions that are compounded to make different medications. All of the products on the recall list were made by the New England Compound Center (NECC) in Framingham, Mass., and are administered by injection into the spine.
Tests are still underway to identify the exact type of fungus linked to the outbreak among back-pain patients who received injections of Methylprednisolone Acetate, a steroid that is injected into the spinal cord. FDA inspectors found the fungus in a sealed vial of the steroid at the New England Compounding Center earlier this week when numerous cases of meningitis in multiple states sparked health alerts and recalls. The NECC voluntarily shut down operations on Wednesday.
So far, seven states have reported meningitis cases related to the contaminated steroid, including Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Indiana. Michigan has become the most recent state on the list, reporting four cases.
In Tennessee, the state hardest hit with the meningitis outbreak, 29 people have been diagnosed with meningitis, and three people have died. State health officials are working with clinics to contact other patients who might have been exposed to the fungus. So far, three clinics across the state are confirmed to have administered the tainted steroids to patients. Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. John Dreyzehner said they have found no procedural problems with the clinics that administered the injections.
“These clinics and their staff are trying their level best to treat and improve the lives of patients who come to them in pain, and we respect and support their efforts,” Dreyzehner said. “Evidence indicates these clinics and clinicians had no way of knowing about the contamination at the time of the procedure. The evidence indicates this is a product issue.”
The Centers for Disease Control and FDA have asked the clinics, doctors offices and hospitals in 23 states that have received shipments of medications from NECC to stop using them immediately. Anyone who has received epidural injections since July 1 should watch for symptoms of meningitis. Health officials say the most common symptoms are worsening headache, fever, stiff neck, trouble walking or falling and progressing back pain. Many of these patients have suffered strokes.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/10/05/fda-expands-recall-list-tainted-injectable-medicines-linked-to-meningitis/#ixzz29AK4l31b
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