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 [...]
Many of us are aware of Lamaze classes as a series of classes which teach expectant parents important things about good practices in pregnancy, labor, childbirth, breastfeeding, etc. Perhaps the most important aspect of Lamaze education is the knowledge that it gives to would be parents that make them no longer fearful of the whole [...]
In a climate where mothers-to-be are treated as patients, over-diagnosed, over-treated with medicines, and under-counseled, it is sometimes difficult for parents to grasp the depth to which mother-friendly care can affect pregnancy, labor and child-bearing experience of a woman. This blog is for all those who ask me how we at Healthy Mother, in providing [...]
Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you would never pull open the petals of the tightly closed buds and force them to blossom to your time line – Gloria LeMay
Many a time we have noticed that the “energy of labor” stops flowing or is just not there when mothers go into labor. This situation manifests itself when mothers appear to become less involved in the process of labor. An otherwise normal, active labor stage then goes on and on, wearing down mother, her partner, [...]
For nine months the baby experiences life in the mother’s womb and gradually becomes tuned to happenings surrounding it. His mother and father’s voices, sounds of various “things”, emotions of his mother, effects of mother’s diet or medications, all are experienced by the baby. As he gets ready to leave the familiar “home” which is [...]
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, [...]