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TIPS ON MANAGING LABOR PAIN DURING CHILDBIRTH NATURALLY, INCLUDING LABOR POSITIONS, DOULAS, WATER BIRTHS, MASSAGE, Are you looking for ways to manage labor pain naturally? Preparing for the pain associated with labor often leaves many women anxious and uncertain about what to expect. Most women experience pain during labor, but preparing for your labor may [...]

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Ultrasound precautions Posted on November 25, 2009 by gloria I saw this interchange on Facebook today with some of my favourite teachers in the birth field. Carla Hartley is the owner of “Ancient Art Midwifery Institute” and L. Janel Martin produced the film “The Other Side of the Glass” about the experience of fathers at [...]

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Are Vaginal Exams in Pregnancy Necessary? by Laura Dana, LCCE, CD(DONA), CAPD I haven’t met many women who were happy to have an exam done while being pregnant. For that matter, I haven’t met too many women who were happy to have it done while not pregnant, but what is the purpose behind performing the [...]

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Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts by Beverley Lawrence Beech The use of ultrasound in antenatal care is big business, and in any big business marketing is all-important. As a result of decades of enthusiastic marketing, women believe they can ensure the well-being of their babies by reporting for an early ultrasound scan and [...]

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Ultrasound: More Harm than Good? by Marsden Wagner The ultrasound story begins in July 1955 when an obstetrician in Scotland, Ian Donald, borrowed an industrial ultrasound machine used to detect flaws in metal and tried it out on some tumours, which he had removed previously, using a beefsteak as the control. He discovered that different [...]

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Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism by Caroline Rodgers © 2006 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved. [Editor's note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 80, Winter 2006.] In May 2006, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed what too many parents and educators already knew: The [...]

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Hospitals Are a Major Health Hazard by Andreas Moritz (NaturalNews) In 1995, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said that, “Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual [...]

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The Center for Unhindered Living The Downside of Due Dates After a woman finds out she is pregnant, one of the first pieces of information she usually wants to know is “When am I due?”As the due date approaches, both the woman and the health care provider begin to get anxious about whether the baby [...]

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Sonography-Study Shows Potential Dangers of Ultrasound in Fetal Development Aug. 24, 2006 A new study reports that prolonged and frequent use of ultrasound on pregnant mice causes brain abnormalities in the developing mouse fetus. Researchers said that the study findings support warnings by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration against the use of medically nonindicated [...]

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Ultrasound, sonograms, and dopplers use high frequency sound waves to produce an image of the baby on a viewing screen or amplify the baby’s heartbeat so it can be heard more easily. NO STUDIES have been done which prove the safety of these devices, and the American Medical Association recommends AGAINST unnecessary exposure. “Unnecessary Exposure” [...]

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