OMG. Sorry, I know you're probably thinking I'm really slack for not having posted in a few days. Well, this is the deal. I'm off to Phuket, Thailand tomorrow morning for a week to follow a group of Australian women who are having post-baby plastic surgery. I'm sitting in on consultations, watching some surgeries and interviewing doctors. Basically, I have an all-access pass to get the inside scoop on this growing market and medical tourism more generally. This is all research for a magazine article I've been commissioned to write and also for my forthcoming book. I've been trying to get myself organised for the past few days so please excuse my silence of late....much more to come.
I will be blogging (with many photos) from Phuket for the rest of the week!
Oh and my thesis is due in 2 weeks! WHOOOOOHOOOO!
Midwifery, vindicated at last?!
According to an international review of maternity services, women who are cared for by midwives rather than GPs or obstetricians are less likely to lose their babies within the first six months of their pregnancies.
In a huge analysis of 12,000 women in 4 countries, researchers argue that women who were supported by midwives were much less anxious than those treated by other health care providers. As a result, they experienced fewer miscarriages.
Obstetricians are unsurprisingly annoyed with the findings.
The best part of the study?
Women being looked after by midwives were less likely to be admitted to hospital during pregnancy, episiotomies or require pain medication and were more likely to have vaginal births, feel in control during labour and better able to initiate breastfeeding.
As the most comprehensive study of this kind ever, the analysis also showed there was no significant difference between the women who were looked after by midwives or obstetricians when it came to foetal deaths after six months gestation, length of labour, induction, intervention, premature births and admissions to neonatal intensive care units.
For all the midwives out there, go on...say it....
WE TOLD YOU SO.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3mb4k9
In a huge analysis of 12,000 women in 4 countries, researchers argue that women who were supported by midwives were much less anxious than those treated by other health care providers. As a result, they experienced fewer miscarriages.
Obstetricians are unsurprisingly annoyed with the findings.
The best part of the study?
Women being looked after by midwives were less likely to be admitted to hospital during pregnancy, episiotomies or require pain medication and were more likely to have vaginal births, feel in control during labour and better able to initiate breastfeeding.
As the most comprehensive study of this kind ever, the analysis also showed there was no significant difference between the women who were looked after by midwives or obstetricians when it came to foetal deaths after six months gestation, length of labour, induction, intervention, premature births and admissions to neonatal intensive care units.
For all the midwives out there, go on...say it....
WE TOLD YOU SO.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3mb4k9
Ange breastfeeding on W magazine cover
A gorgeous photo of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of the twins and taken by Brad Pitt is featured on the November cover of W magazine. There are not many photos of celebrities breastfeeding...this is definitely a good start. Of getting pregnant, Ange says:“I think one of the life changing things that he [Brad] did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn’t otherwise be here.”
Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=644672
Millbank Report
Childbirth Connection has just released the Millbank Report about Evidence-Based Maternity Care in the US. Basically, this report provides suggestions for reforming the American maternity system which is, for intents and purposes, crumbling. As a result of the escalating numbers of caesareans and inductions being performed, the report notes that maternity care is contributing to the skyrocketing health care costs. Not only is pregnancy the number one reason for hospitalisation in the US, six of the ten most common procedures billed to medical insurance or Medicare are maternity related. Caesarean sections, in particular, are the most common billed procedure for Medicare, private payers and for all payers combined! The report points out that even when women have relatively uncomplicated births in hospitals the costs begin at around $7,000 and for a caesarean can go up to $16,000. Women who deliver in birth centres, in contrast, are charged around $1600 and often the outcomes in these centres are very good and women are satisfied with their care. The report also stresses the importance of midwifery.
Read more here: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ck=10575
Read more here: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ck=10575
Minnie D: Myspace for my baby!
Forget selling your soul.. I mean baby photos to a tabloid for a few mill. Minnie D. slipped in a photo of she and baby Henry on her MySpace page.Much more beautiful than those horrible posed photos!
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3pw5k4
Melissa Joan Hart: bring on the drugs
This is something you don't hear very often. Melissa Joan Hart says she regrets her decision to give birth 'naturally' to her second son, Braydon (now 6 months old).
"I kinda regret that one," she revealed.
Anyone else out there regret saying no to an epidural?
Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/melissa-joan-hart-i-regret-no-epidural
"I kinda regret that one," she revealed.
"But the thing is, the healing was so much faster," the 32-year-old explained. "I didn't have to get the drugs out of my system and was moving around a lot more."
"I labored at home for 9 hours and then went to the hospital for an hour and a half - two pushes and he was out," she said.Anyone else out there regret saying no to an epidural?
Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/melissa-joan-hart-i-regret-no-epidural
BBP in Vogue Australia
The Baby Bump Project got a mention in an article about prenatal weight gain in the November edition of Vogue Australia (p.174).
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