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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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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UPI Science News
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 10, 1996 (UPI) -- Sleeping with your infant may save his life.
In two reports in the journal Sleep Friday, researchers say their studies indicate sharing the bed with mom may safeguard a newborn from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. They caution the conclusions are theoretical and need to be corroborated by further research.
They speculate that sharing a bed with a parent may prevent the long periods of quiet sleep, known as stage three-fourths sleep, from which a vulnerable infant who experiences long pauses in breathing or a drop in body temperature may have trouble arousing.
Sarah Mosko of the University of California, Irvine, says a baby sleeping next to another person stands a better chance of being awakened. While the cause of SIDS remains unknown, many scientists suspect it involves a baby's inability to wake up when in trouble.
Normally, if breathing stops during sleep, the oxygen-depleted brain arouses the sleeper to get it going again. An arousal deficient person, however, can sleep right through the problem, with deadly consequences.
Studies show siblings of SIDS victims, presumably at higher risk of the syndrome themselves, sleep with fewer interruptions and body movements than do infants with no family history of the disorder. Families also report the SIDS babies are harder to wake up and move less often than healthy ones.
In the study, the scientists found the children who shared beds with their moms had far less deeper stage three-fourths sleep than those who slept alone.
Most of the world's moms sleep with their children. The practice of putting baby in a separate bed and, often, a separate room began in western industrialized societies only some 200 years ago. In the United States, 19 percent of whites, 59 percent of blacks, and 26 percent of Hispanics in New York City and Cleveland report often sleeping with their infants. (Written by UPI Science Writer Lidia Wasowicz in San Francisco)
Copyright 1997 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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