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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LONDON (Reuter) - Counseling works just as well as Prozac in treating post-natal depression, British doctors report.
A study of 61 women in northern England showed new mothers should be free to choose whether they get drugs for the "baby blues," Louis Appleby and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Withington hospital said.
The women all got at least one session of counseling and then some were given Prozac (Eli Lilly and Co's fluoxetine) and some were given more counseling sessions. Two more groups got counseling and either a placebo or Prozac.
"Highly significant improvement was seen in all four treatment groups," Appleby's group wrote in a report in the British Medical Journal.
"The improvement in the group receiving fluoxetine was significantly greater than in those receiving placebo," they added. "The improvement after six sessions of counseling was significantly greater than after a single session."
But adding Prozac to counseling did not improve the outcome, they added. "There seems to be no advantage in receiving both."
Post-natal depression affects between eight and 15 percent of mothers
in the first few months after childbirth, but there have been few trials
studying the best treatment for it.
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