Home birth – Springer and Van Weel
Safe in selected women, and with adequate infrastructure and support birth is an event of great importance in family life. Although pregnancy and delivery are, under healthy conditions, normal social...
View ArticleHome birth figures low in North Wales
THE number of mums giving birth at home is lower in North Wales than in the rest of Wales, figures released last night show. But those choosing home delivery rather than opting for a hospital maternity...
View ArticleBirth charity says the NHS is right to encourage home births
Edinburgh charity the Birth Resource Centre told Dunedin Napier News it believes NHS plans to encourage home birth in the Lothians are a good idea. As birth rates rise the new Maternity Services...
View ArticleScotland: Pregnant women are urged to give birth in their own homes
MOTHERS-to-be are to be encouraged to stay away from hospital in an effort to more than double the number of home births in the Lothians. Pregnant women living furthest from the ERI and St John’s in...
View ArticleIs Homebirth for You?
Today in the United States, at the end of the twentieth century, advances in science and technology account for many positive changes in our quality of life. Yet more and more women from all walks of...
View ArticleOur ‘high risk’ Chapelfields home birth was a success
NEW mum Rachel Bridgeman successfully gave birth to her second son Alfie at home on November 17, despite being classed as “high risk” following a caesarean section. The 35-year-old mum-of-two from...
View ArticleCalmness key to home birth
EMMA PEARCE, 29, runs a baby and maternity clothing company called Butterfly Babies, and is mum to daughter Tiegan, six, and son Cadan, three. Both her children were born at home in Roath, Cardiff....
View ArticleHome Birthing Discussion
A discussion on the topic of Home Birthing and licensing midwives in North Carolina and other U.S. states with Russ Fawcett and Jennifer Block.
View ArticleKaplan Study Guide Suggests Banning Home Birth is Constitutional
Via a tip from a friend of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, we learned that Kaplan review materials (created to help law students preparing to take state bar exams) suggest that a state ban...
View Article7 Tips for Creating a Calm, Joyous Homebirth
As cesarean and induction rates in hospital climb to astronomical levels many women are turning to homebirth. When interventions become excessively high, the risk/benefit ratio of being in a hospital...
View ArticleMore moms choose to give birth at home
If Samara Hines had health insurance, she’d deliver her baby in a hospital, away from the demands of her five other children and with help from nurses for the new little one. But Hines’ husband is...
View ArticlePeterhead mums unite for home birth support service
EXPECTANT mums who have their hearts set on giving birth at home are to benefit from the launch of a new support service next month. Peterhead mothers Amber Sebold and Charlie Paris have united to help...
View ArticleObs bleating as they get scared for their pockets
OBSTETRICIANS have stepped up their counter-attack against a push to give midwives a bigger role, claiming dire consequences will result if a federal review recommends allowing midwives to practise...
View ArticleIngo Rademacher Talks Names, Labor, Vaccines and Breast Milk
Soap star Ingo Rademacher and his fiancée Ehiku caused quite a stir with CBB readers when they announced that they had named their now 5-month-old son Peanut Kai. After learning of the pregnancy, the...
View ArticleHomebirth=Empowerment
It’s not a secret that I had a homebirth with my daughter last August! But why do people feel the need to make nasty comments about it, like it’s a bad thing? What’s with the negativity people?...
View Article(Video) Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery
We first met Katherine and Todd through LocalHarvest.org as our closest Community Supported Agriculture provider. We quickly became interested in their story as small farmers trying to make a living...
View ArticleA Homebirth Story
Yesterday morning at about 2:00am I got the call. It was the call I had been waiting for for about two weeks. She said “Hannah, my water just broke and I am having really strong contractions.” I said,...
View ArticleA TRADITIONAL BIRTH: No birthplace like home
Brannan Sirratt stepped into Birthroot Midwifery’s prenatal meeting room with husband Jacob and toddler son Nate in tow. Escaping a chilly February day, the family got warm hugs from Maria Chowdhury...
View ArticleBill seeks to create state board of midwives
Sens. Wayne Johnson, R-Cheyenne, and Charles Scott, R-Casper, have co-sponsored a bill they say will make it easier and safer for women to give birth at home. Currently, it is illegal for certified...
View ArticleHome Birth Safety Act
The legislative season has started in SD again, so much of my computer time is taken up with following and promoting and defending the Home Birth Safety Act. Last year, the state passed a bill that...
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