Envision Birth

07/04/2016

By Cláudio Paciornik https://www.facebook.com/Projeto-Restaura%C3%A7%C3%A3o-dos-filmes-de-Cl%C3%A1udio-Paciornik-690804900992556/timeline/

06/05/2016

http://www.carleymendes.com/blog/possible-complications-with-natural-inductions

Maybe you’re reaching your estimated due date and feel like it’s "time to do something". Or maybe you've gone past your due date with an antsy obstetrician and the threat of artificial induction is looming. If your intention is to have a natural labour and birth, be careful with the use of 'natural'...

06/05/2016

I had been taught that doctors had all the knowledge, power and skill. Yet, Chakki hadn’t done too badly on her own

06/05/2016

By Mary Esther Malloy after a lecture by Dr. Nils Bergman at New York University in February, 2016 (she apologizes to Dr. Bergman if she’s mottled his words. She was writing as fast as she could) I. Neuroscience on the screen. A packed room of maternity care professionals. Our brains trying to under...

02/08/2016

Elephants in the wild have midwives who surround them in a circle during their labor, protecting the pregnant mother and swaying along with the laboring elephant. The elephant midwives may care for the pregnant elephants throughout their long gestation of 21-22 months, in labor, and through infancy.…

01/23/2016

(JTA) — When Rafi Daugherty went to the hospital for the birth of his first child, he posted a sign on the delivery room door. “I am a single transgender man having my first baby,” it read. “I use he/him/his pronouns and will be called ‘Abba’ (Hebrew for father) by the baby. Papa, Dad, Daddy,...

01/06/2016

Forgive me for asking but... Do you REALLY have low milk supply? This is a very important place to start. Please bear with me. I don’t mean to doubt your situation and be annoying patronising...

01/03/2016

“No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.”
-- Kristen Proby

12/28/2015

I'm going to make this really easy: if you weren't there for the conception, don't expect to be there for the birth of the baby.

12/20/2015

12/07/2015

Exceptionally poignant after this weekend's shooting. Stand with Planned Parenthood.

12/02/2015

Synthetic Hormone - Pitocin. It should come as no surprise that there are unintended and poorly understood consequences.