The Family Journey

Mamapedia, formerly Mamasource, has a great post from blogger Rachael Heiner, who watched Ricki Lake’s Film, The Business of Being Born. In the post, it says she doesn’t know if she’ll have more babies, but her bio shows she’s due in May 2010. It sounds like she’ll be asking a lot of questions from those caring for her.

Mamapedia can be a wonderful resource when you can’t get to (or don’t have the option to attend) in-person meetings like BirthChat, La Leche League, or other support groups. It’s an online forum for asking questions and sharing advice. What online resources do you utilize to stay connected to other moms?

Baltimore ICAN is looking for art pieces on cesarean birth. See their site for details!

Thanks to Midwifery Today E-News for Sharing this research tidbit:

Pregnant women in the US are much more likely to undergo repeated prenatal ultrasound exams now than they were 10 years ago, according to research recently published in the journal Medical Care.

In a study conducted by Northwestern University’s Department of Preventive Medicine, researchers looked at the average number of prenatal ultrasounds per pregnancy and percent of prenatal visits that included an ultrasound exam as recorded by hospitals on the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey forms filled out between 1995 and 2000 and again in 2005 and 2006.

Results showed that, for low- and high-risk pregnant women, the average number of ultrasounds per pregnancy increased from 1.3 to 2.1 and from 2.2 to 4.2, respectively.

“In an adjusted analysis, the odds of a woman receiving an ultrasound in 2005–2006 were twice those of a visit in 1995–1997,” researchers noted, adding that women deemed “high-risk” were almost twice as likely as those in the “low-risk” group to receive an ultrasound during a prenatal visit.

— Siddique, Juned, et al., 2009. Med Care 47 (11) 1129–35.

The current Pathways to Family Wellness magazine has a wealth of pertinent information – it’s the Special Childbirth Issue. One of the best parts is a short piece titled Protecting the Cave. The author provides an interesting glimpse of what Cave-Dads may have experienced, and how those same instincts play into childbirth today.

For Monitoring Labor, Is Inside the Uterus Better Than Outside? – Women’s Health

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