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4th Trimester, Austin Services, Baby Wearing, Parenting
Baby Wearing 101 in Austin
Learn how and more importantly, WHY you should wear your baby. Learn about exogestation, learn how to use slings and wraps at this class. Purchase a sling after the class and save $10! Join Gena Kirby for an intimate evening of learning, hands on help and laughs. Appetizers and beverages served, call 559-930-2032 to reserve [...]
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Cesarian Section, Hospital Birth, VBAC
VBAC What’s Your Story?
In the Central Valley to date, having a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) has proven to be difficult. Very few doctors were willing to take patients wanting a VBAC. If you had a sympathetic doctor and a positive experience, please share your story with us, comment here or email us your story at www.mommymattersonline@sbcglobal.net. Moms, [...]
Continue ReadingDocs told to avoid 1 flu shot brand
A government panel is recommending doctors steer clear of giving one brand of flu vaccine to young children this year because of convulsions and fever in kids who got the shot in Australia and New Zealand. At issues is the flu vaccine made by CSL Biotherapies, an Australian company. CSL is one of five manufacturers supplying the [...]
Continue ReadingRotavirus vaccines save poorest children
Trials in Asia and Africa show rotavirus vaccines can save the lives of even the poorest young children and programs should begin to vaccinate as many as possible, researchers reported on Thursday.
Continue ReadingLarge Weight Gain in Pregnancy Makes for Bigger Babies
The degree of maternal weight gain during pregnancy was directly associated with babies’ birth weight, researchers said. Birth records of nearly 1.2 million newborns indicated that those born to mothers who gained more than 24 kg (53 lbs) weighed a mean of 148.9 g (5.2 oz) more than offspring of women who gained just 8 [...]
Continue ReadingAmerica’s first test-tube baby delivers a son
When Elizabeth Carr was born in Norfolk nearly 29 years ago, journalists from across the globe were on hand to chronicle the birth of the country’s first test-tube baby. On Thursday, that celebrated baby – now Elizabeth Comeau – gave birth to her first child, 7-pound, 12-ounce Trevor James Comeau, in Concord, Mass., with far [...]
Continue ReadingDon’t Postpone Pregnancy After Miscarriage
f at first you don’t succeed, it may be best to try again soon. Women who get pregnant within six months of a miscarriage are more likely to have a healthy, successful pregnancy than if they wait longer, suggests a new study published online in the British Medical Journal.
Continue ReadingBirth Professionals Have Options in Fresno
If you are a birth professional in Fresno, you are in luck, if you are searching for community. When I started working with pregnant moms in Fresno 6 years ago it was hard to find where other birth professionals met up. Of course I also had never heard of Facebook or You Tube either! But [...]
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Fresno! Midwives Needed!
An additional 334,000 midwives are needed, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). The UNFPA-ICM programme will increase the number of births attended by professional midwifery providers and develop the foundations for a sustainable midwifery workforce in selected developing countries. Its focus will be on training midwives, developing practice standards, and strengthening national midwifery [...]
Continue ReadingNurse with double uterus pregnant with “twins”
A Utah nurse is expecting to give birth in about five months. And then again a week later. Angie Cromar has a double uterus, or uterus didelphys, in which siblings (not twins) are growing side by side, CBSAtlanta.com reports.
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Baby Wearing 101 in Austin
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I’m an Austin Doula Now
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VBAC What’s Your Story?
- Docs told to avoid 1 flu shot brand
- Rotavirus vaccines save poorest children
- Large Weight Gain in Pregnancy Makes for Bigger Babies
- America’s first test-tube baby delivers a son
- Don’t Postpone Pregnancy After Miscarriage
- Birth Professionals Have Options in Fresno
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Fresno! Midwives Needed!
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