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: Infants best left in own bed, study says Organization: Copyright 1997 by Reuters Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997CHICAGO (Reuter) - Parents who put their babies in bed with them are not reducing the risk sudden infant death syndrome, health experts said Monday.
Sharing a bed may encourage breast feeding, but there is no scientific proof that it protects against ``crib death,'' the most common cause of death between the ages of one month and one year in developed countries, they said.
The advice was contained in a policy statement developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It was published in the August issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the pediatrics academy.
While experts believe that sudden infant death syndrome may have more than one cause, pediatricians recommend putting babies to sleep on their backs to reduce the risk.
Bed-sharing may actually increase the risk of such deaths because adult beds are not designed to meet safety standards for infants and may have softer surfaces that could lead to stomach sleeping, entrapment and suffocation, the policy statement said.
In a second study published in the journal, researchers at the University Hospital of Bergen in Norway reported that infants put to sleep lying on their stomachs, with their heads covered by bedding, had higher levels of exhaled carbon dioxide near their faces.
They were also less likely to be able to toss the bedding off than infants
placed on their backs.
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