Support & Love Make for Better Births
July 19, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Labor & Delivery
This is another one of those studies that is going to attract “well, duh” comments.
What makes a woman happier with her birth experience, healthier after the experience and her newborn healther? Relying on supportive, loving people during the birth and having skin-to-skin contact with the baby immediately after the birth.
#2. Parenting Quote of the Week
February 4, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Labor & Delivery, Mental Health
My female friends had told me that giving birth was like shitting a watermelon. They lied. It’s like excreting a block of flats – complete with parios, awnings, clothes-lines, television aerials, satellite dishes, backyard barbecues, kidney-shaped swimming pools, gazebos and double garage extensions with the cars parked outside.
– Maddy in Foetal Attraction by Kathy Lette.
