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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LONDON (Reuter) - Counseling works just as well as Prozac in treating post-natal depression, British doctors report.
A study of 61 women in northern England showed new mothers should be free to choose whether they get drugs for the "baby blues," Louis Appleby and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Withington hospital said.
The women all got at least one session of counseling and then some were given Prozac (Eli Lilly and Co's fluoxetine) and some were given more counseling sessions. Two more groups got counseling and either a placebo or Prozac.
"Highly significant improvement was seen in all four treatment groups," Appleby's group wrote in a report in the British Medical Journal.
"The improvement in the group receiving fluoxetine was significantly greater than in those receiving placebo," they added. "The improvement after six sessions of counseling was significantly greater than after a single session."
But adding Prozac to counseling did not improve the outcome, they added. "There seems to be no advantage in receiving both."
Post-natal depression affects between eight and 15 percent of mothers
in the first few months after childbirth, but there have been few trials
studying the best treatment for it.
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