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Quick Facts If you have had a cesarean, your next baby can be born vaginally safely.  This is called a VBAC or vaginal birth after cesarean. As Mona Lydon-Rochelle MD said at the 2010 National Institutes of Health VBAC conference, “There is a major misperception that TOLAC [trial of labor after cesarean] is extremely risky.”  George…

Total planned home births:                                                                             1648 Total  transports:                                                                                    125    [7.6 % ]                         Mothers transported in labor: 89                               Cesareans                                                              49   [ 3% ]                               Forceps/Vacuum                                                      9                         Mothers transported within 24 hours postpartum:       23                         Babies transported within 24 hours after home birth: 13 Counties:  Benzie 2     Kent  14   Lake 18    Manistee  51    Mason 207      Mecosta   128      Montcalm  15  Muskegon 336    Oceana 240    Ottawa   118    Newaygo  368    Osceola  78    plus 73 births attended in Allegan, Clare, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Midland, Missaukee, Shiawassee, Wayne & Wexford….

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS Colic is one of the most prevalent conditions of infancy: about 20 percent of all babies suffer the inconsolable bouts of crying that characterize it. Yet no one really understands what makes a baby colicky. Scientists have investigated a number of causes — allergies, hormones in milk, even stress in the womb. But…

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Research Review: Outcomes of Care for 16,924 Planned Home Births in the United States January 30th, 2014 Today’s post on Science & Sensibility coincides with the release of a long awaited study looking at the home birth data collected by the Midwives Alliance of North America MANAStats project, 2004-2009.  Judith Lothian, PhD, RN, LCCE, FACCE reviews…

Magnificent Magnesium Written by Katherine Czapp September 23 2010 The Neglected Mineral We Cannot Live Without Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal, the eighth most abundant mineral found in the earth’s crust. Because of its ready solubility in water, magnesium is the third most abundant mineral in sea water, after sodium and chloride. In the…