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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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:11:19 PDT Copyright 1997 by United Press InternationalSAN FRANCISCO, May 23 (UPI) -- A study by more than 200 pediatricians from 40 states and the District of Columbia shows unexplained fever in very young infants may be a sign of urinary tract infection.
The doctors say evaluating fever in infants under three months of age is extremely difficult because the high temperature can stem from everything from a simple cold to a life-threatening infection.
Says lead study author Dr. Thomas Newman of the University of California, San Francisco, ``The difficult issue is how to identify the few babies needing treatment without doing lots of unnecessary tests on all the remaining infants.''
The study of 899 feverish infants three months old and younger shows about 11 percent of them suffered from urinary tract infection. Seven infants had bacteria in their blood as well as in their urine, which can be fatal. Of these, only four looked more than just ``slightly ill.''
The doctors say the study shows observation of an infant with a fever may not be enough, and a urine test may be in order to identify the babies with urinary tract infections.
The study also shows the strongest risk factor for urinary tract infection is being an uncircumcised male. This group stands 10 times the risk of such infection than the circumcised boys.
The ongoing study, which will eventually involve 3,000 infants, aims
to determine the consequences of not detecting urinary tract infections
and to set specific guidelines for conducting urine tests in infants.
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