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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From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters) Subject: Sharing bedroom, not bed, reduces cot deaths-study Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 2:50:06 PSTADELAIDE, March 27 (Reuter) - Infants who share their parents' bedrooms but do not sleep in their parents' beds have a greatly reduced risk of cot death, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), a New Zealand study has found.
Auckland professor Ed Mitchell said the study, presented to the Australian Perinatal Conference on Wednesday, showed sharing a bedroom with parents reduced babies' risk of SIDS to one-third that of babies sleeping alone in a separate room.
``One of the reasons we think this data is particularly important is it could be very easy behaviour for mothers to change, that is to take the cot from a separate bedroom into her bedroom,'' he told Reuters.
``Because 50 percent of babies in New Zealand currently sleep in a separate room, (changing this behaviour) could have a profound impact on mortality rates,'' he said.
Mitchell said his study, for the New Zealand Cot Death Study Group, had examined 393 SIDS cases over three years compared with a control group of almost 1600 infants.
While it was not able to clearly show why sharing parents' bedrooms brought benefits, Mitchell said sharing may allow parents to more easily monitor the temperature of the room to ensure the baby did not get too hot or cold.
Mitchell said his study had also confirmed previous research on the heightened risks of sharing a bed with a baby, which researchers believed may result in overheating, airway obstruction and increase in carbon dioxide.
This did not preclude taking infants to bed to comfort or breastfeed, but when parents went to sleep, the baby should be returned to the cot beside the bed, he said.
Mitchell said the study also confirmed the added risks of SIDS for babies whose mothers smoked. He believed the damage was inflicted when the baby was in the womb.
Mitchell said the peak risk period of SIDS for an infant was two to four months, with 80 percent of cases occurring in the first six months.
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