Motherlore Midwifery

24/04/2022

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08/10/2021

I'm thrilled to offer the option of Birth Center to my clients. When I was pregnant with my first baby I wanted to give birth in a birth center but there wasn't one. We went many years without this option in New Jersey. This is a beautiful space with all of the comforts of home but close to the hospital. Who will be my first birth center client?

The Birth Center of New Jersey was inspired by our philosophy of choice, from the type of health care provider you feel comfortable with, to the place you choose to birth and start your new family.

01/09/2019

Please Help this local mother of 4- she has a long recovery from a rare complication of pregnancy and birth ahead of her.

"On Saturday August 31st, Heather complained to her husband that she wasn’t feeling well and was displaying symptoms of a heart attack. She was rushed to Morristown Medical Center and was diagnosed with SCAD after being admitted to the Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute. Last night as Heather continued to deteriorate the decision was made to perform open heart surgery and replace the torn artery. The cardiologist told the family it will be at least six months before she will begin to feel like herself and much longer before she can do any hands on child care. Heather had to stop nursing her 3 week old baby and will need to attend cardiac rehab after two months of resting in the hospital and at home.

Heather and Said have health insurance but it will not cover all the expenses of the devastating event that has occurred to Heather and her family.

Maternal related deaths are unfortunately on the rise in the US. Last night, if not for the amazing doctors and nurses at Morristown Medical Center, Heather’s situation would have been fatal.

100% of the donations will go towards Heather’s medical bills, recovery, family care.

Thank you all for your support and prayers."

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10220154386517951&id=1474746831

27/08/2019

https://www.facebook.com/940195412707369/posts/2442624592464436/

Archives August 2019 August 2018 July 2018 August 2016 August 2015 August 2014 Top Five Reasons We Need A Black Breastfeeding Week Black Breastfeeding Week was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent CDC data show that 75% of...

14/07/2019

Updated resource regarding fish consumption for pregnant/lactating people.

25/05/2019

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141014170634.htm

Pregnant women with low vitamin D levels experience an increased amount of pain during labor, according to a study. Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with depression and pain, but this is the first study to demonstrate its association with increased consumption of pain medication during....

08/03/2019

https://www.facebook.com/74873358393/posts/10157277386353394/

A new law to help states investigate deaths from childbirth complications is a start, but experts say what is really needed is reducing C-section rates.

20/02/2019

In honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, WHO has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”.

15/01/2019

There is so much anxiety around weight and growth. A true understanding of the charts is a way to alleviate some of that. Look at your baby, pay attention to satiety, energy, diapers and less on the pounds.

https://www.facebook.com/1475361422762646/posts/2039721956326587/

The message given to new parents is the higher the infant weight gain the better. Yet being a big baby and growing fast is a risk factor for childhood obesity.

14/01/2019

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2016/07/07/5514/?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb #.XDx9uYBOl-E

If you had to give yourself a C-section to save your unborn baby, could you do it? Having given birth to my own child, I’m not sure I could. But this woman did it. She had no other choice: she lost a previous baby during protracted labor, and she lived in a small village eight hours …

03/01/2019

Hoping to year from many of you in about 6 weeks 😁

21/12/2018

Mother the mother

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05/11/2018

Here I am around 6cm during my first birth with Laura DePasquale. She was my Bradley childbirth instructor and first doula I ever met. I had the birth of my dreams because of her and it changed my life 💖

14/09/2018

Simple but full of info
https://www.chcf.org/publication/infographic-overmedicalization-childbirth/

15/05/2018

Information. Use it wisely

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/health/2018/05/15/nj-hospital-c-section-rates-high/608639002/

Hospital C-section rates vary from 14 percent to 42 percent. Wide gaps also are seen in episiotomies, early elective deliveries.

20/12/2017

I know, sugar is delicious but the risk is real. This is not about women with diabetes, but high levels of glucose in early pregnancy during the formation of the fetal heart.

"The risk of giving birth to a baby with a heart defect was 8 percent higher for every increase of 10 milligrams per deciliter in blood glucose levels in early pregnancy."

For decades, physicians have known that pregnant women with diabetes face a higher risk than non-diabetic women of giving birth to a baby with a congenital