The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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you can still catch the mini-segments: Birth Orgasms: Women Speak Out - Is it possible to have an orgasm during childbirth? Women Who Prefer Home Birth - For some, delivering a healthy child doesn"t involve a trip to the hospital. [Note - the associated article says, "Modern medicine means not having to go through childbirth alone." It"s more accurate to say "Responsible modern medicine means reserving risky interventions for when the benefits outweigh the risks." I know lots of responsible women who give birth at home with the perfect birth team . . . their partner, their midwife and their doula. They are definitely not alone, and they have all the medical assistance they need, just like a woman giving birth with a midwife in a hospital! Savvy people know the difference between midwife-assisted homebirth and unassisted birth.] The Orgasmic Birth web site
also has a lot of great information about birth in general:
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From C-ap@clari.net Tue Sep 26 15:24:31 PDT 1995 Keywords: Tokos Medical Corp, tick=TKOS, Business, MedicalWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first blood test to indicate whether a pregnant woman is about to experience preterm labor.
The test, which the FDA approved last week, detects a protein called fetal fibronectin in women who are experiencing early symptoms of preterm labor, such as backache or cramps.
After the 20th week of pregnancy, fibronectin is not supposed to be detectable in the mother's blood unless there is a problem, such as preterm labor or an infection.
The presence of fibronectin means the woman is at risk of having a premature
baby within the next two weeks and needs care to prevent that, said Tokos
Medical Corp. of Santa Ana, Calif., which holds marketing rights to the
test. It was originally developed by Adeza Biomedical Corp. of Sunnyvale,
Calif.
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