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Listening to mothers (its relevance in normal birth)

Posted by: vsakotai on: April 15, 2009

When I counsel mothers during their pregnancy, or when they attend one of our Healthy Mother Lamaze Programs, one of the first things I assure them is that I believe in their bodies’ ability to give birth naturally. I also tell them that I will spend as much time as they need to overcome their [...]

Tags: fears during pregnancy, Listening to mothers, normal birth, prenatal care, prenatal counseling

Rethinking the atmosphere in which you give birth….

Posted by: vsakotai on: February 11, 2009

Recently, I was talking to one of our Healthy Mother Labor and Childbirth program participants who had gone to her parents’ house in Kerala to spend the rest of her pregnancy. During a routine check up at the local hospital four weeks before her due date, her baby’s heart rate was seen to be fluctuant, [...]

Tags: C-Section, Choosing the right hospital, CIMS, cord entanglement, Healthy Mother, How to select a hospital, Lamaze, Maternity Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, NICU

Report on Evidence-based Maternity Care in the US – What are the lessons for India?

Posted by: vsakotai on: October 31, 2008

Recently I had the opportunity to read most of the 128-page report published by Childbirth Connection (www.childbirthconnection.org) the non-profit maternity care research and advocacy group, Milbank Foundation, a non-partisan endowment working in the health care field, and the RSG, a voluntary association of legislative leaders and policy makers in the US. Here is the link [...]

Right to Information & Ability to Make Choices in Childbirth

Posted by: vsakotai on: September 11, 2008

I have been on an unintended hiatus for the past few weeks…. Reviewing the comments in response to my posts, I am surprised that almost all questions have been in the area of Cervical Insufficiency. Why is that? Granted this experience may not be statistically significant, it got me thinking as to why so many [...]

Tags: ability to make choices in childbirth, epidural, labor analgesia, Lamaze classes in Hyderabad, pregnancy classes, right to information during pregnancy, traditional methods in pain relief during labor

Archive for the ‘Advocacy & Evidence-based Practice’ Category

Listening to mothers (its relevance in normal birth)

Rethinking the atmosphere in which you give birth….

Report on Evidence-based Maternity Care in the US – What are the lessons for India?

Right to Information & Ability to Make Choices in Childbirth

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