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    Better pregnancy nutrition can grow a healthier baby, keep perineal tissues intact and support VBAC

    In my experience, there are significant things a pregnant woman can do to improve the integrity of the tissues and thus help to reduce complications.
    My primary recommendations for this are the Collageena protein supplement and a good-quality vitamin C supplement with bioflavonoids.  These are especially important in the last trimester, when the perineum and uterus are growing lots of new tissue.  You can learn more about these supplements and the research behind these recommendations at:

    The Better Baby Book: Use nutrition, your environment, and your mind to create the healthiest, smartest, autism-free baby possible by Lana Asprey, MD, and Dave Asprey,  "To help parents gift their children with better health and higher intelligence for life." It's available either on Kindle or paperback.

    This book was written by a couple who know more about pregnancy nutrition than anyone I've ever heard, met or read about.

    The book is finally out as of Jan. 1, 2013.  You can also read their Better Baby Blog.

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Resources



The new midwifery: science and sensitivity in practice by Lesley Ann Page, Rona McCandlish - 2006

Some discussion of continuity of care and burnout.



Our local homeopath suggests homeopathic Cocculus Indicus as a classic remedy for recovering from extended care-taking of others.


Peer Support Trumps Time Off in Preventing MD Burnout [11/6/12] - One hour of facilitated peer support every other week during working hours significantly improved certain measures of physicians' job satisfaction and burnout compared with the same amount of unsupervised time off . . .

Burnout Self-Test - the Maslach Burnout Inventory

Facing Burnout  (item #4) from Midwifery Today

You can also do a general search on "burnout" in their web pages.


Motivation and burnout in human service work - The case of midwifery in Denmark


Burnout experienced by nurse-midwives


Generalized Google Search on burnout midwife midwives midwifery


Greenleaf provides a multi-layered approach for the mitigation of trauma’s negative effects within non-profit, public and private sector organizations.

Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah offers some excellent relaxation and stress-reduction tools with providers as a target audience.


STRESS MANAGEMENT:   TEN SELF-CARE TECHNIQUES


Prevent and counteract job burnout and compassion fatigue.
Manage job stress.
Improve self-care and work effectiveness.



Practicalities



Taking care of yourself as a midwife also means taking care of the practicalities of being self employed.

The Freelancers Union has disability coverage and many other benefits. They are a great resource and politically active as well.

 

 




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