Guest Post: How Pregnancy Can Kill: A True Story of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
I was diagnosed with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, a form of dilated cardiomyopathy defined as deterioration in heart function between the last two months of pregnancy up until five months post pregnancy.
We Go Together Like… Breastfeeding and Co-Sleeping
There is an endless array of questions and judgments and ‘should’s associated with both infant sleep and feeding. But this hasn’t always been the case. It used to be a simple matter of mother breastfeeding and mother and infant sleeping together with no judgment and no questions about quality or quantity of sleep.
Drinking and Pregnancy: Is One Too Much?
I remember the looks. Sitting down to dinner with my husband at around 7 months pregnant and ordering a glass of wine. No one says anything, but they take that extra second to take it all in, contemplate saying something, and then walk away. But their eyes say it all.
Re:Birth Volume 2
In this second issue of Re:Birth, there are articles on the Ultrasound (which was quite new at the time), mothering the mother, VBACs (yes, they were talking about them 20 years ago) and C-sections, support during labour, and breastfeeding policies.
Why Is Saving Babies’ Lives Not Enough?
Extrapolating over a ten-year period, there are approximately 7,400 infants under the age of one who died, most of whom need not have.
Choices in Childbirth: ReBirth Newspaper
Starting today I will start sharing some pdfs of an old newspaper that was written and distributed in the 1980s in Ontario, Canada – Re: Birth. It was created by a group called Choices in Childbirth and the goal was to promote women’s options for their births...