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Improving your epidural birth

By on Thursday, November 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Tips for improving your epidural birth, gleaned from my blog (and other helpful sites) over the years.

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Preventing postpartum hemorrhage naturally

By on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | 27 Comments

Childbirth involves blood loss. There’s no way around it. How much blood a woman loses is the potentially dangerous variable. Postpartum hemorrhage accounts for the majority of maternal deaths worldwide. Fortunately, in the United States where maternity care is more readily accessible, most postpartum hemorrhages are not fatal. But they do happen, regardless of where you give birth. (Click over to read my research on preventing postpartum hemorrhage naturally)

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Pitocin’s untold impact

By on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | 93 Comments

Oxytocin is the hormone of love and bonding and human connection. If the oxytocin system is damaged, or a child’s oxytocin receptors become desensitized, the ramifications are huge. A brain and body with an impaired ability to release or detect oxytocin sounds like misery to me. As more and more scientists study oxytocin’s impact, we can see how crucial our body’s oxytocin systems can be for human life, love, and happiness. (Click over to read the full post.)

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Epidurals and scoliosis

By on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

A recent post by Rixa alerted me to something fascinating. It’s totally logical… one of those things you learn and wonder how you never thought of it before. Scoliosis and epidurals aren’t always compatible. Makes sense, huh? I really don’t know how it never occurred to me before. (Click over to read the full post.)

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Little known facts about Pitocin and induction

By on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments

This is an updated version one of the first blogpost I ever wrote, back on my old blog, in April of 2007. It brought a lot of traffic to that blog, much the way my “Pitocin’s untold impact” post has brought a lot of traffic to this new website. Apparently, lots of people want to find out more about Pitocin! This is good. I hope more and more research will give us further answers about the short and long-term effects of this powerful drug. In the meantime, here are some of the things I’ve discovered in my own truth-seeking journey…

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