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NEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle Natural Birth for Modern Mamas. Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also with breastfeeding and bonding for PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
LOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventionsECSTATIC BIRTH 1
Ecstatic Birth 1 - Sarah Buckley 1 1 DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle Natural Birth for Modern Mamas. Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also with breastfeeding and bonding for PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
LOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventionsECSTATIC BIRTH 1
Ecstatic Birth 1 - Sarah Buckley 1 1ABOUT SARAH
Professor Sandy Kirkman, University of Glamorgan, Wales in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK) Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, andparenting.
GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
GENTLE, NATURAL, MAMMALIAN BIRTH Helping our hormones. This is a very big topic, but in a nutshell, here are my top 5 festive give-aways, for a gentle, natural, birth. 1. Choose your maternity caregivers wisely. Labouring in a low-technology setting, such as homebirth or a birth centre, are safe options (see below) that are more likely to soothe your hormonal systems. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY? Hormonal physiology describes the healthy functioning of our hormonal systems. My new report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing provides scientific evidence and detail about these processes in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum, including the impacts of common maternity-care interventions on these systems.. Our childbearing hormones are critical to actually making labour andLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting EPIDURALS: RISKS AND CONCERNS FOR MOTHER AND BABY Epidurals: Risks and Concerns for Mother and Baby @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Mothering No.133, Nov-Dec 2005, as “The Hidden Risks of Epidurals” A more recent version is available in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009). SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle Natural Birth for Modern Mamas. Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also with breastfeeding and bonding forLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle Natural Birth for Modern Mamas. Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also with breastfeeding and bonding forLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of InductionABOUT SARAH
Professor Sandy Kirkman, University of Glamorgan, Wales in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK) Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, andparenting.
GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
GENTLE, NATURAL, MAMMALIAN BIRTH Helping our hormones. This is a very big topic, but in a nutshell, here are my top 5 festive give-aways, for a gentle, natural, birth. 1. Choose your maternity caregivers wisely. Labouring in a low-technology setting, such as homebirth or a birth centre, are safe options (see below) that are more likely to soothe your hormonal systems. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY? Hormonal physiology describes the healthy functioning of our hormonal systems. My new report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing provides scientific evidence and detail about these processes in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum, including the impacts of common maternity-care interventions on these systems.. Our childbearing hormones are critical to actually making labour andLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be exciting EPIDURALS: RISKS AND CONCERNS FOR MOTHER AND BABY Epidurals: Risks and Concerns for Mother and Baby @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Mothering No.133, Nov-Dec 2005, as “The Hidden Risks of Epidurals” A more recent version is available in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009). SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT • How are labour and birth designed to work for mother and baby?• What processes ensure that both make the safest and easiest transitions from pregnancy to postpartum?• Are there important preparations before birth that optimise these transitions?• PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2020 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Australia’s Parents Pregnancy magazine, Autumn 1999, as “Your Hormones are your Helpers” Imagine this. Your cat is pregnant, due to give birth around the same time as you are. GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also withbreastfeeding and
ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A HEALING BIRTH, HEALING THE EARTHLOTUS BIRTH
@ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously published in Lotus Birth by Shivam Rachana (Yarra Glen, Australia: Greenwood Press, 2000). For an in-depth exploration of the placenta and placental rituals, see “Jacob’s Placenta” in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices(Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009).ECSTATIC BIRTH 1
Ecstatic Birth 1 - Sarah Buckley 1 1 SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT • How are labour and birth designed to work for mother and baby?• What processes ensure that both make the safest and easiest transitions from pregnancy to postpartum?• Are there important preparations before birth that optimise these transitions?• PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2020 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Australia’s Parents Pregnancy magazine, Autumn 1999, as “Your Hormones are your Helpers” Imagine this. Your cat is pregnant, due to give birth around the same time as you are. GENTLE NATURAL BIRTH FOR MODERN MAMAS Gentle, natural birth is our genetic blueprint for labour and birth, switching on hormonal systems that optimise ease, pleasure and safety for mothers, babies, fathers and families. A gentle, natural birth gives an optimal start, not only for labour and birth, but also withbreastfeeding and
ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A HEALING BIRTH, HEALING THE EARTHLOTUS BIRTH
@ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously published in Lotus Birth by Shivam Rachana (Yarra Glen, Australia: Greenwood Press, 2000). For an in-depth exploration of the placenta and placental rituals, see “Jacob’s Placenta” in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices(Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009).ECSTATIC BIRTH 1
Ecstatic Birth 1 - Sarah Buckley 1 1 SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage).ABOUT SARAH
"Discovering Sarah Buckley is like being told, authoritatively, that chocolate is not only good for you, but is guaranteed to make you slim. And also beautiful." Professor Sandy Kirkman, University of Glamorgan, Wales in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK) Sarah Buckley is aNew-Zealand-trained
GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Discover the science and pleasure of Ecstatic Birth! Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. "Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my firstbabyThank you for
ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY? Hormonal physiology describes the healthy functioning of our hormonal systems. My new report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing provides scientific evidence and detail about these processes in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum, including the impacts of common maternity-care interventions on these systems.. Our childbearing hormones are critical to actually making labour and GENTLE, NATURAL, MAMMALIAN BIRTH In the festive season, we celebrate perhaps the most famous gentle, natural, birth in history. Blessed Mary gave birth to her legendary baby in the most low-technology setting imaginable and surrounded by mammals. Could this be a powerful teaching to us, across time, abouthuman birth? As I
LOTUS BIRTH
@ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously published in Lotus Birth by Shivam Rachana (Yarra Glen, Australia: Greenwood Press, 2000). For an in-depth exploration of the placenta and placental rituals, see “Jacob’s Placenta” in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices(Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009). ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY Having an ultrasound has become an expected part of pregnancy, and modern women may have many scans, sometimes beginning from the early weeks. We are also lining up for “keepsake” scans, where we are paying hundreds of dollars for a scan with no EPIDURALS: RISKS AND CONCERNS FOR MOTHER AND BABY Epidurals: Risks and Concerns for Mother and Baby @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Mothering No.133, Nov-Dec 2005, as “The Hidden Risks of Epidurals” A more recent version is available in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009). SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of InductionABOUT SARAH
Professor Sandy Kirkman, University of Glamorgan, Wales in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK) Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, andparenting.
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
HEALING BIRTH, HEALING THE EARTH Contact Dr Sarah Buckley here. First published in Living Now, Winter 2002, supplement Women Now and reprinted in Living Now in May 2009. An updated version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009) Birth, she is dying. GENTLE, NATURAL, MAMMALIAN BIRTH Helping our hormones. This is a very big topic, but in a nutshell, here are my top 5 festive give-aways, for a gentle, natural, birth. 1. Choose your maternity caregivers wisely. Labouring in a low-technology setting, such as homebirth or a birth centre, are safe options (see below) that are more likely to soothe your hormonal systems. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY? Hormonal physiology describes the healthy functioning of our hormonal systems. My new report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing provides scientific evidence and detail about these processes in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum, including the impacts of common maternity-care interventions on these systems.. Our childbearing hormones are critical to actually making labour and ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be excitingLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction LEAVING WELL ALONE: A NATURAL APPROACH TO THE THIRD STAGE The uterine muscle fibres shorten, or retract, with each contraction, leading to a gradual decrease in the size of the uterus, which helps to shear the placenta away from its attachment site on the mother’s uterine wall. Third stage is complete when the mother births her baby’s placenta. For the new mother, the third stage is a time of DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction DR SARAH BUCKLEYBOOKSARTICLESBLOGABOUT SARAHSIGN UP TO SARAH’SNEWSLETTER
“Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they GENTLE BIRTH, GENTLE MOTHERING INTRODUCTION You are reading the Introduction for Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering answers your important question and gives you the information you need to create a safe, satisfying, and gentle start to family life. Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and mother of four, shares the science as well as the wisdom of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME Giving birth at home is a safe and satisfying choice for families who want the best possible start for themselves and their babies. Families who choose homebirth have a much higher chance of enjoying a natural, physiologic birth, and a much lower chance of experiencing unnecessary medical procedures, with outcomes that are just as safe, compared to healthy mothers and babies birthing in hospital. BOOKS - DR SARAH BUCKLEY Few authors today are more trusted by natural parents than Sarah Buckley. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering is an exceptional book that gives families the confidence they need to follow their own instincts. —Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher of Mothering magazine Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDBEARING REPORT From the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing perspective, every mother and baby is likely to benefit from additional support for physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible, including when interventions are used. The report is now available in full online for free, along with separate files of abstract, executive summary ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. PAIN IN LABOUR: YOUR HORMONES ARE YOUR HELPERS Labour and birth involve peak levels of the hormones oxytocin, sometimes called the hormone of love, and prolactin – the mothering hormone. These two hormones are perhaps best known for their role in breastfeeding. As well as these, beta-endorphin, the body’s natural pain-killer, and the fight-or-flight hormones adrenaline andnoradrenaline
SYNTHETIC OXYTOCIN (PITOCIN, SYNTOCINON): UNPACKING THE Synthetic Oxytocin (Pitocin, Syntocinon): Unpacking the myths and side-effects. Synthetic oxytocin is widely used in maternity care around the world. It is commonly administered to women to induce or to speed up (augment) labour, and to prevent or treat bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage). Like all maternity-care interventions SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of InductionABOUT SARAH
Professor Sandy Kirkman, University of Glamorgan, Wales in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK) Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, andparenting.
SIGN UP TO SARAH’S NEWSLETTER AND ECSTATIC BIRTH EBOOK Receive your free Ecstatic Birth ebook and sign up to Sarah’s newsletter (No spam ever!) See our Gentle Natural Birth privacy policy. “Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first babyThank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing”- Julianne. ULTRASOUND SCANS- CAUSE FOR CONCERN Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern. @ Dr Sarah J. Buckley 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com. Previously versions have been published in Mothering magazine, issue 102, Sept-Oct 2000, and Nexus magazine, vol 9, no 6, Oct-Nov 2002. A fully updated and expanded version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide toNatural
HEALING BIRTH, HEALING THE EARTH Contact Dr Sarah Buckley here. First published in Living Now, Winter 2002, supplement Women Now and reprinted in Living Now in May 2009. An updated version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley, Celestial Arts, 2009) Birth, she is dying. GENTLE, NATURAL, MAMMALIAN BIRTH Helping our hormones. This is a very big topic, but in a nutshell, here are my top 5 festive give-aways, for a gentle, natural, birth. 1. Choose your maternity caregivers wisely. Labouring in a low-technology setting, such as homebirth or a birth centre, are safe options (see below) that are more likely to soothe your hormonal systems. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT HORMONAL PHYSIOLOGY? Hormonal physiology describes the healthy functioning of our hormonal systems. My new report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing provides scientific evidence and detail about these processes in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum, including the impacts of common maternity-care interventions on these systems.. Our childbearing hormones are critical to actually making labour and ULTRASOUND SCANS IN PREGNANCY This is most accurate early in pregnancy. By 18-20 weeks, the accuracy of a scan is one week either side. If your scan date is later than your own estimation, this may reduce your chance of being induced for going “overdue”. It can also be excitingLOTUS BIRTH
Lotus birth is a new ritual, having only been described in chimpanzees before 1974 when Clair Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting of the cord. Her searching led her to an obstetrician who was sympathetic to her wishes and her son Trimurti was born in hospital and taken home with his cord uncut. SHOULD EVERY MOTHER BE INDUCED AT 39 WEEKS? THE ARRIVE If you are pregnant right now, you can’t have missed it. For maternity care providers, it’s been the topic of the year. Should healthy, low-risk women should be routinely induced at 39 weeks? On August 9, the ARRIVE study (A Randomized Trial of Induction LEAVING WELL ALONE: A NATURAL APPROACH TO THE THIRD STAGE The uterine muscle fibres shorten, or retract, with each contraction, leading to a gradual decrease in the size of the uterus, which helps to shear the placenta away from its attachment site on the mother’s uterine wall. Third stage is complete when the mother births her baby’s placenta. For the new mother, the third stage is a time of * Skip to primary navigation * Skip to main content* Skip to footer
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