Currently, we have 2 Swiss midwifery students interning with us. When they look at the practices that we follow at Healthy Mother, they are pleasantly surprised. This is what they had studied as “physiological normal birthing practices” as they were studying in their first year of Midwifery School in Switzerland. Then came the actual clinical [...]
Do not panic!! Panic scenes are only for movies! Even though we help mothers and dads be prepared for this event, we get scores of phone calls at our Healthy Mother Birthing Center from our mothers who are close to their expected due date when their bag of waters breaks. All of a sudden panic [...]
The Times of India Hyderabad on 21/1 carried an editorial titled “Take it Easy” on a World Health Organization report on rising c-section rates in Asian countries, including India. While the WHO report mentions that in India overall, the c-section rate is 18%, in reality, if we take the urban and semi-urban population into consideration, [...]