Families that chose to birth at home or
in the birth center tend to view pregnancy and birth as a natural process, not an illness, and therefore feel that the hospital or the «medical» model is not the appropriate approach to childbirth.
Not exact matches
Most babies lose a few ounces
in the first few days of life, but they
tend to return to their
birth weight by the time they are 2 weeks old, according to the Ennis Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Center website, and this is another positive sign that your baby is well - nourished.
In the country's 250
birth centers, midwives
tend to take far more time with patients than busy doctors do and the emphasis is on the whole woman — everything from consultations on what a woman should be eating during pregnancy to conversations about anxiety over delivery.
«There also
tended to be fewer low
birth weight babies, a condition which results
in life - long problems,» said Rotheram - Borus, the Bat - Yaacov Professor of Child Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the director of the
Center for HIV Identification Prevention and Treatment Services at UCLA.