The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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04/18/1996BOSTON (AP) Challenging a long-held view, a new study concludes doctors don't always need to induce labor when a woman's water breaks after a full-term pregnancy. Instead, it appears that letting nature takes its course is safe for both mother and baby.
For years, many doctors have assumed that waiting for labor to start naturally after the fetal membranes break could be hazardous to the baby. The fear is that germs might get into the uterus. On the other hand, some worry that when doctors use drugs to start labor, they are more likely to have to deliver the baby by Caesarean section.
A woman's ''water'' breaks when the fetal membranes rupture before the start of labor, releasing amniotic fluid. To help resolve whether inducing labor is necessary, doctors studied 5,041 women in this situation. They were randomly assigned either to have induced labor or to wait for labor to start on its own. ''There was very little difference,'' said Dr. Mary E. Hannah of the University of Toronto, who described the results in today's New England Journal of Medicine. In both groups, about 3 percent of babies had infections, and about 10 percent were delivered by C-sections.
The study was conducted in Canada, Britain, Australia, Israel, Sweden
and Denmark.
Critique of Study
I assume that the report is concerning the paper reporting the results of the TERM-PROM study. Our unit was one of the collaborating centres. As has already been discussed in this group the study randomised women to one of four protocols - early IOL with PGE2, early IOL with synto/pit, delayed IOL with PGE2, delayed IOL with synto/pit.
Results were that:
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