News & Research
- Pitocin use in labor as an early indicator of ADHD
- TIME: How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
- The Economist: A mother's stress while pregnant has long lasting effects on her child's genes
- CDC Releases preliminary 2009 birth statistics; 32.9% cesarean rate
- Harvard study decries "cry it out" method
- ACOG issues less restrictive VBAC guidelines
- NIH Conference on VBAC conclusions
- BMJ: Wait to clamp the umbilical cord
- Labor Induction and risk of cesarean birth
- Continuous fetal monitoring does not improve outcomes; increases interventions
- New Protocol for Labor Inductions
- Doula support and prevention of cesareans
- Listening to Mothers Survey 2006
- FDA Alert on Misoprostol (Cytotec) use in labor
- Planned Cesarean riskier than vaginal deliveries: Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Outcomes of planned homebirths with certified professional midwives: British Medical Journal