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Resources...

Cesarean
  • International Cesarean Awareness Network
  • Quick facts about cesarean delivery
  • Risks of cesarean delivery
  • Recovering from cesarean

epidural analgesia

  • Description of epidural placement
  • Epidural and maternal bonding
  • Risks of epidural analgesia

Positioning

  • Spinning babies (fetal positioning)
  • Positions for labor
  • Positioning with an epidural
  • Positions for breastfeeding

Postpartum support

  • Postpartum depression
  • Placenta encapsulation

For the parents of baby boys

  • Official AAP statement
  • AAFP position paper
  • Physical and psychological damage

Urgent food warnings for moms!

(Is there a link between GMO's and recent chord deformities?)

  • Umbilical chord deformities







"Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line."                 
                            -Gloria Lemay

Kate Carrick

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