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Induction at 39 weeks – does it really benefit women?
Induction at 39 weeks – Does it really benefit women and babies?
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What is Physiologic birth?
Physiologic birth is very simply what we call natural birth. It is the way that human bodies are biologically designed to give birth without interference. The human female body is designed to grow a new human, birth that human, and nourish that human. You are one stop shopping! It involves nourishing the woman growing a new human. Proper pregnancy nutrition helps to support her body and pregnancy, as well as creating a properly expanded blood volume, and working to prevent problems that can interfere with the birth...
read moreEight Ways to Best Support the Establishment of the Human Microbiome.
The human microbiome is established initially during birth through vertical transmission from the mother. There is a matrilineal transmission that has taken place from grandmothers, to mothers, to babies for centuries. We now have even more research that supports the importance of striving for the natural, physiological way of birth.
read moreBirth Planning/Healthy Pregnancy Class!
Healthy Birth of Rochester Presents a class in Birth Planning and How to Stay Healthy and Low Risk During Pregnancy, Labor and Birth If you are interested in scheduling a class please contact me directly. Amy Fairport, NY. Plan ahead for a Healthy Pregnancy & Birth! A one-time, 2 hr. seminar that covers the nuts and bolts of How to stay Healthy and Low Risk during Pregnancy labor and birth, and how to plan the birth you want. Grab your partner and join Certified Childbirth Educator Amy V. Haas, BCCE in learning the important...
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Thoughts on the safety of Home Birth
Why is homebirth as safe, if not safer, than Hospital Birth for low risk women?
read moreBirth Trauma: Thoughts on the Psycho/Social aspects of birth in the US.
Birth is not just about a healthy baby. Birth is also about a healthy Mom, and a positive experience! It’s time to take back our births. It’s beyond time. Let’s talk about trauma and birth in the United States.
read morePrematurity is Preventable!
Amy V. Haas, BA, BCCE Last year the March of Dimes launched a multi-billion dollar campaign to promote awareness about premature labor and birth. They were trying to raise funds for research to find the cause and cure. I shook my head when I saw the ads. Practical prevention techniques were not mentioned only medical drug treatments. (1) Then I opened the latest issue of Medscape and noticed the primary focus of the report was prematurity. Prematurity, it seems, is on the rise in this country, in spite of our prosperity, supposed medical...
read moreFISH CAN’T SEE WATER: THE NEED TO HUMANIZE BIRTH
Marsden Wagner, MD, MSPH International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 75, supplement s25-37, 2001 INTRODUCTION Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women—half of all people—that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society. On the other hand, respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the...
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