Sentences with phrase «for first births»

It's one of the reasons that NICE in the UK are recommending midwife led settings for first births — to cut the primary c - section rate.
It is still used for first births at a rate of 50 - 60 % in many places.
Also in 1956, Searle, a giant drug company, submitted to the Food and Drug Administration its formula for the first birth - control pills.
The average age in the UK for a first birth [note first birth not first conception, the distinction is significant] is now twenty - nine years of age and will shortly be over thirty as more and more women postpone motherhood until their thirties and forties.
I just wish I had received the love and support I have had through this pregnancy and birth for my first birth too.
Today, Jaime Hitt tells us about her VBAC, and all the ways she prepared differently than for her first birth in order to make it happen, including and unexpected external cephalic version.
I counter: To insist the general risk pool (etc) pay for your first birth without medical resources present, in spite of the fact that same risk pool will still be responsible for caring for any adverse outcomes due to lack of medical resources is hypocritical beyond belief.
Studies there (sorry, don't have any references on hand, I'll try to get them posted later) show that home - birthing in this setting is just as safe for mother and child for a first birth, and safer for next births, than a hospital setting.
Choosing a home birth for your first birth gives your body a chance to do what it knows it can to birth your baby.
My daughter had a wonderful experience with rooning in for her first birth too.
ICAN provides information and support to women planning for a vaginal birth and wishing to avoid unnecessary cesareans — whether they are healing from cesarean surgery, planning a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) or preparing for their first birth experience.
For my first birth, which was attended by a midwife in a hospital, I brought along a doula because my mother lives overseas, so I wanted an advocate — and she was indeed very helpful.
For her first birth she planned a home birth.
But I convinced him to use a midwife for our first birth, and everything sort of spiraled from there.
For my first birth I intended to go natural but it didn't work out that way and I think much of it was my own fear and inexperience.
When I created my birth plan for my first birth, I looked at several examples online and in books to get an...
I would have chosen a different hospital and OB for my first birth for sure.
And yes, read widely and educate yourself — I wish I had done more in preparation for our first birth, but am thankful for further opportunities to do so more over the years.
Even though the midwives didn't make it for the first birth they definitely made up for it with the second.
Fleur Bickford: With my second child, my doctor — I was here in San Diego, I wasn't for my first birth, but my doctor had given me the option to either try either try a VBAC, or to repeat the caesarean.
I ended up having to transfer to a hospital for my first birth (long labor and meconium particulates in the water), and while it was necessary and I am extremely grateful for the care they provided my daughter, the experience wasn't reflective of a natural process.
I had an epidural for my first birth and I am probably not going to get one for my second birth.
I am so very blessed to have had this experience for my first birth.
That is what happened to me while using regular hypnobirthing, (for my first birth) and the result was a much longer birth than I likely would have had if I had been able to remain upright and mobile, as I did with my Hypnobabies birth.
I had a simple birth plan for my first birth that was completely ignored and resulted in severe physical and psychological scarring.
(Note that this model did not take into account informal support, as comparable measures were not collected for the first birth cohort.)

Not exact matches

In a new study published Tuesday in the BMJ, Brazilian researchers reported for the first time a link between Zika and arthrogryposis, a severe joint condition that's present at birth.
(She had traveled abroad to attend the birth of her first grandchild, a hitch in planning that she apologized for repeatedly.)
While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.
Zuckerberg, 31, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 30, waited until the birth of their first child, a girl named Max, to reveal their intention to give away all but 1 percent of the Facebook stock that accounts for most of their fortune.
The number first appeared in a German manual for midwives published in 1836, and it's an estimate from a woman's last period all the way through to birth.
TMZ reports that her boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, was there with Khloe for the birth of their first child, and said that Khloe's mom Kris Jenner, sisters Kim Kardashian West and Kourtney Kardashian, as well as her best friend Malika Haqq, were also by her side.
In South Korea, new mothers stay at home for the first 100 days after giving birth.
Netflix, for example, now gives new parents unlimited maternity or paternity leave during the first year after the child's birth or adoption.
The birth will give Kate's own family another cause for celebration after it was reported by British media on Sunday that her sister Pippa was pregnant with her first child.
It gave me the opportunity to watch them grow and learn each day — something I was unable to do after the birth of my first child and for which I had felt sad and a little guilty.
This increased risk is highest when you first start using a combination hormonal birth control method or when you restart the same or different combination hormonal birth control method after not using it for a month or more.
With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.
«The sexual revolution that liberated (especially) female sexual desire from the confines of marriage, and even from love and intimacy, would almost certainly not have occurred had there not been available cheap and effective female birth control — the pill for the first time severed female sexual activity from its generative consequences.
The first wife appears bright and put together, the other two so - so, but overall they seem happy and the kids appear to have goals for their lives and have ambition outside of having babies and giving birth.
Nevertheless, I followed the Hebrew calendar to the extent it was necessary for me to identify — first — the exact date of Jesus» death, and then that of His birth (and baptism and resurrection, the dates of His death and resurrection being the most important for us, Christians).
I have worn out my copies of The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library) and The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning, but this one was my Bible for my first baby.
On the one hand, there is the thesis of Oswald Spengler, who believed that he had identified a natural law for the great moments in cultural history: First comes the birth of a culture, then its gradual rise, flourishing, slow decline, aging, and death.
, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.
Since women are involved most intimately in the first birth, the feminine carries humanity's hope for rebirth.
But when he goes to arrange the second, in a scene also remarkable for the ridiculous lengths to which the doctor resorts to euphemism to speak of anything but «baby, «birth,» and «abortion,» he learns that the first was never done.
The walls begin to push and crowd them into the birth canal and for the first time they feel pain and know fear.
The government of Ghana, for its part, has determined that its national fertility rate at the start of the twenty - first century should be 3.3 births per family; yet Ghana's parents are currently guessed to be having an average of about six children per family.
With our first three tinies, we have always waited until the day of the birth for the epic «It's a girl!»
Well for me, if we no longer believe in the Virgin Birth Jesus can not be the God of St. John's Gospel, The WORD was made flesh and dwelt amonst us, or the creator of the world an universe of the first page of Genesis.
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