Helping mothers rediscover natural birth

“Can we bathe our newborn baby?” This is one of the most common questions that comes up immediately after birth at our Healthy Mother Natural Birthing Center. While a massage and bath do lots of good in babies, we recommend that the first bath be delayed for at least a few hours, preferably 24 hours. [...]

Warren Buffet’s legendary right hand man Charlie Munger delivered the 2007 USC Graduation speech in which he said The highest form a civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another. When you as expectant couples seek out a hospital or maternity center [...]

Here is a great comparison between the Midwifery Model of Care and the Obstetric Model of Care which I found here. In India too the obstetric model looks at pregnancy and birth as a medical crisis fraught with risk. That is why we have such high rates of c-section (80%) and why there is so [...]

At Healthy Mother we advocate and practice Midwifery Model of Care which has many benefits over conventional “medical model”. This excerpt from review of the different models of care published by Cochrane Collaboration summarizes the conclusions of a study conducted for this purpose. I am quoting below verbatim the summary of this review: Midwife-led care [...]

The following picture put out by March of Dimes is a great way of impressing upon mothers to “challenge” their doctors if they are forced to be induced at 37 weeks. Study after study has proven that absent any evident medical problem babies need minimum of 39 weeks or till the time of spontaneous birth [...]