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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by Peter Siegel, M.D.
Does
bath water enter the vagina? [full text]
SIEGEL P.
Obstet Gynecol. 1960 May;15:660-1.
Does water make its way into the vagina during swimming or tub bathing? Women accustomed to the use of vaginal tampons know that it does not. On the other hand, their physicians generally are not so sure. During modern times, tub bathing in late pregnancy and early puerperium commonly has been, and continues to be, condemned. Because we fell that water does not enter the vagina at these times, a definitive experiment was devised to settle the matter.
patients are summarized in table 1.
Table 1. Data from histories of patients tested
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As can be seen, even women of high parity, tested only a few hours after delivery, failed to show a positive reaction. Since the results were so strikingly uniform, it was felt that the point was proved, and that carrying out the test on a series larger than 10 would merely be repetitious.
Thus, the fear that bath water may infect a pregnant or puerperal woman is not founded on fact, since normally no water enters the vagina. Therefore, restrictions on bathing during and after pregnancy are not warranted on this basis alone. Moreover, this teaching represents another classic example of error.
1853 W. Polk St.
Chicago, Ill
From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.
Presented before the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District VI Junior Fellow Division, in Omaha, Neb. Oct. 15, 1959
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