Gentle Expectations » Uncategorized http://diversecultures.com/blog The blog of a doula and childbirth educator, in a town where nearly every birth has an epidural. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Go Away Hurricane http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/10/14/go-away-hurricane/ http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/10/14/go-away-hurricane/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:02:08 +0000 Administrator http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/10/14/go-away-hurricane/ Gentle Expectations is currently recovering from Hurricane Ike. We were lucky to not receive much damage, and all of our associates are doing well.

Keep an eye on our front page for upcoming events- to include a FANTASTIC fundraiser in an effort to provide more services for free to our low income clients.

Our website might be going through a few changes, in an effort to switch everything over to our new, wonderful logo, designed by Hannah.

As always, Meet-the-Doulas at Babies-R-Us will be at the end of the month, October 25 from 3-7 pm. Join us, chat a while, and find out what we can do for you.

]]> http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/10/14/go-away-hurricane/feed/ 0 Frightening New Technology http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/ http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:59:31 +0000 Administrator http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/ Wow. So someone showed me this new birth technology- BirthTrack. Just when I thought continuous fetal monitoring couldn’t get any worse… it does.
See for yourself. BirthTrack
This machine clips onto the cervix with an electrode that screws into the baby’s head. A lot of women already have internal pressure catheters to monitor contractions, and many also have internal fetal monitors, which they are told is something that is “attached” (screwed in) to the top of the baby’s scalp to monitor their heartrate. I cannot explain it well enough, what this company thinks, so I will just link to a blog that explains it all for me.

Blog on BirthTrack

What it boils down to is this:
This machine will be a defense for a doctor who is sued for malpractice, as it is SUPPOSED to show each change in the womans cervix and the baby’s heartrate. I have no doubt that this will only increase the rising c-section rate.

]]> http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/feed/ 0 18 hours to go… http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/05/04/18-hours-to-go/ http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/05/04/18-hours-to-go/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 05:06:09 +0000 Administrator http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/05/04/18-hours-to-go/ There are 18 hours left until the first meeting of Healing Birth: A Sisterhood of Survivors.
I am SUPER excited. I cannot wait and look forward to seeing a lot of you there.
We will be upstairs at the Barking Dog at 6 pm. BE THERE!

]]> http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/05/04/18-hours-to-go/feed/ 0 Join Us. http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/04/21/join-us/ http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/04/21/join-us/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:05:30 +0000 Administrator http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/04/21/join-us/ Healing Birth Flyer

]]> http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/04/21/join-us/feed/ 0