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Every month, Wisdom Within offers a bit of childbirth or reproductive health related information in the Healthbeat section of three local newspapers:  The Mountain Mail, The Mountain Guide and The Chaffee County Times.

Check out the research!  Links provided wherever possible.
 
Did You Know...

June 2010 - There are natural ways to help breech babies turn head down!  Consider these possibilities:
 
Webster’s chiropractic technique: 82-97% success rate
Slant board positioning: 89-96% success rate
Hypnotherapy: 81% success rate
Moxibustion (Trad.Chinese Med.): 75% success rate

Juliet De Sa Souza, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India. 1977.  Reported in A Good Birth, A Safe Birth, Diana Korte and Roberta M. Scaer.  Harvard Common Press, 1992.  Third edition.

 
July 2010 - If 90% of US families could comply with medical recommendations to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, the United States would save $13 billion per year and prevent more than 900 infant deaths.

 
August 2010 - Natural Family Planning with fertility awareness is EQUALLY AS EFFECTIVE as oral contraceptives when used correctly.

 
September 2010 - Postpartum Depression can be treated naturally:
  • Breastfeeding
  • Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  • Bright Light Therapy (1)
  • Exercise (1)
  • Psychotherapy (1)
  • Herbal Antidepressants
·     (1)  Effectiveness comparable to antidepressant medication


 
 
October 2010
  • Cesarean births are twice as likely when labor is induced.
  • Cesarean births are more than twice as likely when epidurals are given before 4-5 cms. dilation.
  • 1 in 3 moms today give birth surgically.
  • The rate of cesarean births in the US has doubled since 1996.

 
 
November 2010 - Chaffee County has a home birth rate five times that of the rest of the nation!
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Vital Statistics, 303-692-2160

 
 
December 2010 - Women who labor in water experience more drug-free labors, shorter labors and have fewer lacerations in birth.

 
 
February 2011 - Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is 
  • A reasonable, safe and appropriate option for most pregnant women who've had previous cesarean births. (the National Institute of Health, 2010 and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2010)
  • Legal everywhere and available in our community!
 
 
 
March 2011 - Childbirth Education classes in pregnancy can
  • Enhance a woman's confidence to birth naturally
  • Decrease the use of drugs in labor
  • Give social support during pregnancy, which leads to shorter labors and better birth outcomes
  • Facilitate successful breastfeeding and transition to parenthood
 
 
 
 
April 2011 -  Your baby needs to be skin-to-skin with you in the first hour after birth:
  • Baby's temperature, heart rate, breathing and blood sugar levels will stabilize faster and easier.
  • Mother-baby imprinting occurs with baby's strong sense of smell.
  • Mom's hormones for milk production and bonding are increased.
  • Unmedicated babies will initiate breastfeeding.
 

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