Sentences with phrase «as multiple births»

She has been involved with multiple birth issues for three decades, is a Past President of Multiple Births Canada, Canada's only national support organization for multiples and their families as well as Multiple Births Families Association in Ottawa.

Provide home visits for patients with specialized care needs, such as multiple births, postpartum depression risk, diabetes, breastfeeding and others.

Your best approach is to talk to your pediatrician, who can provide certification of your status as a multiple birth family, and may have connections with the company's sales reps. Join the company's reward programs, engage with them in social media, and call each company directly to request special offers.

Although artificially conceived babies have a higher risk of being born prematurely or as a multiple birth, we have found they also have parents who are older, better educated and from a higher income bracket.

Take steps to avoid multiple pregnancies, as a multiple birth will exacerbate your already increased risk of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes i.e. if you're getting IVF, then consider only doing single embryo transfers.

Not exact matches

Some researchers have gone so far as to call this spike in multiple births an «epidemic.»

Also, though fertility generally decreases as women age, the rate of multiple births is higher for older women.

I try not to put too much pressure on myself to speak up as the token «Christian feminist» on issues like these, but after reading multiple blog posts and articles this week from Christian men about women and contraception, I decided to add my two cents as a pro-life woman of faith who supports affordable access to birth control for women.

Second, restrictions on practice that the current CABC indicators have implemented such as the exclusion of breech and multiples, has driven many birth centers to incorporate homebirth into their practice model so they can extend care to these clients outside the birth center setting.

Our birth doulas offer support for unmedicated, medicated, or cesarean births, as well as VBACs, multiple births, home, hospital, and birth center births.

We were... well, we should have been grateful for the healthy children we had... but instead we felt as if we had escaped the misfortune... then we were reminded of Lyric, our son who passed ten days after birth as a result of multiple cord injuries in utero.

As a Bradley Method ® instructor of multiple years, Kelsey has a deep knowledge and passion for birth and its physiological processes.

Most moms do what «sbest for their kids.And yes, there are women out there who legitimately can not bf, so formula is a WONDERFUL choice for them.I exclusively bf both of mine, but think it's okay to ff if you don't have enough milk.there are other situations where i think it's selfish.As for drugs during pregnancy and birth, I had to take 3 doses of medication while pregnant so that I could eat.my morning sickness was so bad I couldn't even keep water down.I made the choice to do that so I didn't starve my unborn child, but I only took what was neccessary to keep something down, and then had no other drugs and plan not to until my son is done bf.And as for the «natural» baby, carcinogens are EVERYWHERE, even in your organic food.in this industrialized world you can not get away from them, and to attack other moms for their choices is a sad statement of your morality and on how your child's persoality is going to turn out.also, having multiple kids is definately more demanding than one.

It's important to find health care professionals who have experience with multiple births, and to see your health care provider as he or she recommends.

It's also worthy to note that girls are more likely to survive very early premature birth, as are babies born in singleton rather than multiple pregnancies.

The goal is to remove the baby from the water quickly so as to avoid it breathing in the water, but with multiples, there may not be time to safely handle this portion of the birth.

If multiple strong, well - done studies came out and showed that home birth under a specific set of circumstances was exactly as safe as a hospital birth, you would see people here change their minds and support that.

Being on - call means anywhere from as little as 5 to as many as 200 text messages can be exchanged during day time, as well as multiple phone calls during the day and night updating me with early labor progress, the birth client or her partner or spouse giving me updates from their doula or nurse on labor progress, and sometimes, to tell me there has been a change made by their OBGYN or Midwife to their previous birth plan.

Whether you are expecting one baby, multiples, or plan to tandem nurse, the best way to prepare to breastfeed is the same as the best way to have the most positive birth outcome: through education during pregnancy when you do not know about it!

Who knows what it would have been like to have a light sleeper (as Adiah is) during a noisy night time birth (I've been at multiple home births where the children slept through soundly... I assumed that would not be the case in the close quartered apartment we lived in at the time given my sound making and her sleeping disposition).

As wonderful as twins and multiple births can be, they also come with their own set of unique pregnancy complicationAs wonderful as twins and multiple births can be, they also come with their own set of unique pregnancy complicationas twins and multiple births can be, they also come with their own set of unique pregnancy complications.

And multiples are likely to have other risk factors for SIDS, such as premature birth and low birth weight.

The two larger hospitals have lower c - section rates than the smaller hospital closest to me and they also boast women's clinics with multiple midwives on staff, but my homebirth midwife recommended an OB at the closer hospital — a personal friend of hers — who had given birth her own child at The Farm (with Ina May as a back - up midwife!)

I wish I could blog daily about what I'm eating in detail, but with six kids, multiple social media sites, running Birth Without Fear, as well as support groups... well, I'm ridiculously proud of myself for blogging about it at all!

Part of me wondered if it was the guilt I felt for being more educated to make better decisions regarding my son's birth as to why I didn't bond with him immediately, but after talking with several moms that have had multiple children it seems to just vary child to child and no one could really explain it.

Often, in the case of a multiple birth, such as twins, a cesarean is necessary.

Adequacy of prenatal care as measured by the Kotelchuck index, delivery method, having a multiple birth, delivering a low birthweight infant.

But the increase in the multiple birth rate means not just more twins, but also higher order multiples, such as triplets, quadruplets and the like.

The Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB) offers support to parents who have lost babies in multiple pregnancies, including those who have lost all babies in the pregnancy as well as those who have lost oMultiple Birth (CLIMB) offers support to parents who have lost babies in multiple pregnancies, including those who have lost all babies in the pregnancy as well as those who have lost omultiple pregnancies, including those who have lost all babies in the pregnancy as well as those who have lost one twin.

And as fertility treatments have improved, there have been some variances in the multiple birth rate, and some decreases in the last few years.

Multiple factors play an important role in how well a baby will do including birth weight, complications of pregnancy such as placental abruption, infection, and immature lung development to name just a few.

As a teacher, school director, child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, multiple birth parenting consultant, best - selling author, and parent (of adult triplets), she has developed a unique style in delivering her advice to parents.

Although the observational studies that underlie our models all adjusted for multiple confounders, including known risk factors for the disease outcomes of interest, risk factors for early breastfeeding cessation such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, and obesity are also risk factors for metabolic disease in later life.

Charities such as Tamba, which has a dedicated and free support helpline (Twinline), and the Multiple Births Foundation are good places to find information on organisations that support parents of twins throughout their childhood.

In non-humans, the whole group may also be referred to as a litter, and multiple births may be more common than single births.

Human multiple births can occur either naturally (the woman ovulates multiple eggs or the fertilized egg splits into two) or as the result of infertility treatments such as IVF (several embryos are often transferred to compensate for lower quality) or fertility drugs (which can cause multiple eggs to mature in one ovulatory cycle).

Similarly, the siblings themselves from a multiple birth may be referred to as monozygotic if they are identical, or as polyzygotic if they are fraternal.

Multiple births of as many as eight babies have been born alive, the first set on record to the Chukwu family in Texas in 1998; one died and seven survived.

It is more common for multiple births to be stillborn, while for singletons the risk is not as high.

In certain medieval European chivalric romances, such as Marie de France's Le Fresne, a woman cites a multiple birth (often to a lower - class woman) as proof of adultery on her part; while this may reflect a widespread belief, it is invariably treated as malicious slander, to be justly punished by the accuser having a multiple birth of her own, and the events of the romance are triggered by her attempt to hide one or more of the children.

Lowcountry Parents of Multiples The purpose of the Lowcountry Parents of Multiples is to support awareness of and interest in children of multiple births; to participate in research pertaining to multiples and their families; to exchange ideas and information with parents and guardians of multiples throughout the Greater Charleston Area; to offer parents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their families.

I focus on helping those moms on bed rest as it's so common on multiple births unfortunately.

Many times labor duration decreases with multiple births, and a home delivery can guarantee that the child is not born in a risky situation such as on the side of the road.

There are several factors that may put a pregnant woman at higher risk of a preterm birth, including a previous preterm birth, multiple pregnancies such as twins, triplets, etc, some chronic medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and infections.

More recently, rates of higher order births (three or more infants) have declined as changes in assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to reduce multiple pregnancies have been implemented (Smith 2014; Umstad 2013).

Support can come from non-professional sources such as peer (mother - to - mother) support, community support groups, support groups for multiples (Tamba (Twins & Multiple Births Association), MBF (Multiple Births Foundation), or similar organisations) and support from family.

In - hospital Attended by MD / DO / CNM Gestation 37 weeks and up (it's hard to make this correspond, as MANAStats didn't give gestation lengths, but only 2.5 % of their mothers «showed clinical signs» of preterm birth) Singleton and twins (MANAStats didn't include any higher order multiples) Vaginal and c / s Death from < 1 hour to 28 days of life

Things are circulated there as truth — «You only have one position you can labor in at the hospital,» «You can't make noise at the hospital,» «At the hospital they'll try to force drugs on you that will hurt your baby» — that aren't true, and so many women who choose home birth think they are making a choice that will give them more «control,» when really they'd have all those same options at the hospital (multiple labor positions, noise or no noise, no drugs if they want) and MORE.

# 1: A video that not only makes a touching and beautiful case for full term, natural multiple deliveries, but home birth as well.

It does say that the figures for breech, TOLAC and multiple gestation are not as good which is why most people don't recommend home birth under those circumstances.