Birthing Hands offers a full range of home birth midwifery and birth services to pregnant persons a licensed), and Northern Virginia area (Va. Licensed).
Claudia Booker, CPM, Birthing Hands Midwifery and Birth Services, is a culturally, ethnically, and lifestyle-sensitive home birth midwifery and birth services practice for pregnant persons and families preparing for birth and parenthood, living in the Washington, DC, Maryland ( Md. Birthing Hands Midwifery and Birth Services offers a full range of birth services, following the Midwifery Model of C
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Your Pelvis is NOT too Small - Overuse of the CPD Diagnosis Are VBACs safe? Yes! Can you have a safe and successful VBAC with a previous diagnosis of a small pelvis or large baby? Yes! We are hearing stories of more and
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“The United States has the highest first-day death rate in the industrialized world. An estimated 11,300 newborn babies die each year in the United States on the day they are born. This is 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined.”
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More US babies die on their first day than in 68 other countries, report shows - NBC News The U.S. is a worse place for newborns than 68 other countries, including Egypt, Turkey and Peru, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children.A million babies die every year globally on the same day they were born, including more than 11,000 American newborns, the report estimates. M...
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Meet Your Neighbor - East of the River Jalan Burton is not your average pediatrician. She visits her patients instead of them having to come to her, and practices telemedicine. “Dr. J,” as Burton is often called, doesn’t even have a formal office. “All of my care happens in the patient’s home,” explained Dr. Burton. “House ...
10/15/2019
How A Prenatal 'Bootcamp' For New Dads Helps The Whole Family Prenatal classes often focus on Mom-to-be — on her shifting role and emotional needs, along with new skills. But if Dad gets sidelined early into a supporting role, research shows, everybody loses.
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Length of human pregnancies can vary naturally by as much as five weeks The length of a human pregnancy can vary naturally by as much as five weeks, according to new research.
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Visual: Know The Size & Volume Of Your Newborn's Stomach As an RN, I have had lots of occasions to talk with new Moms who felt their newborn was not getting enough milk or maybe not good quality milk.
09/23/2019
Perspective | A child raised by many mothers: What we can learn about parenthood from an indigenous group in Brazil Indigenous children are raised to develop high autonomy from a young age, a valuable skill in adulthood. That allows them to be surprisingly agile and strong, as well as familiar with their surroundings.
09/23/2019
Wishing the World Could Be More Soft She expected to give birth on Christmas Day. What happened instead was too hard to explain.
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Babies Born by C-Section Have Different Gut Microbes Than Vaginally Delivered Infants Method of delivery can influence the bacteria in infants' guts, according to a new study, but differences were found to disappear within nine months
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09/12/2019
Children should learn about 'stable and healthy same-sex relationships', guidance says Government guidance says children should learn about "stable and healthy" examples of same-sex relationships.
09/10/2019
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09/10/2019
I wanted to read an article about black motherhood that wasn’t a horror story. So I wrote it myself. Coverage of the community has revolved around high maternal mortality rates, but I needed to read about our joy.
09/06/2019
🌻Here at Jamaa, we firmly believe in affordable access to risk-appropriate care. If you're a low-risk woman, research has proven that it is safer for you to receive care from a low-risk provider, a Midwife, preferably in a low-risk or low-intervention environment such as a birth center or home birth setting. Please note that having a Midwife does not mean that you have to experience a non-medicated birth. If you'd like an epidural or other pain medications, you can still receive this as a low-risk woman, birthing with a Midwife, in a hospital, if you wish.
🌻If you're a medically high-risk expectant woman, research has proven that it is then safer for you to receive care from a high-risk provider, an OB who is a trained surgeon skilled in managing risks and health complications in pregnancy. If you're considered high-risk and depending on what your risks are in pregnancy, there is still opportunity to limit medications and interventions in labor with the priority in mind of keeping mother-baby safe, thriving and healthy. ✨Being high-risk doesn’t mean that you have to subdue to the cascade of all medical interventions, meaning, you can still possibly have a low-intervention birth in a hospital setting.
🌻When expecting women, are not receiving risk-appropriate care with the right provider, then morbidity and mortality instances as well as poor birth experiences and outcomes rises, significantly. Currently, "Approximately 85 percent of pregnant women are considered to have a low-risk pregnancy, according to the CDC, but 98 percent of births happen in hospitals, meaning there is a huge group of pregnant women—83 percent of them—who could be safely giving birth in their home or birth centers but are not.”
🌻The above mentioned is one of the main reasons for our increasingly high morbidity and mortality rates in the US. Other countries such as the UK and Canada provide risk appropriate care by providing Midwives to all low-risk women and ONLY using Physicians when it is medically indicated. Because of this, they have amazingly better birth outcomes than the US.
🌻Jamaa is integrated into the Maternal Health system in St. Louis and we provide safe, sacred, risk-appropriate care. Our goal is to ensure that every low-risk woman knows her options for the appropriate birthing provider and to ensure access to risk-appropriate care.
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Human breast milk may help babies tell time via circadian signals from mom Is a bottle of morning milk at night the equivalent of turning on all the lights at bedtime?
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Antibiotics for UTIs: Recipe for Resistance Down the Road? English study finds little variation in prescribed agents, most ordered without testing
08/08/2019
U.S. Births Dip To 30-Year Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate — the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.
08/06/2019
The 'golden hour:' Giving your newborn the best start The first few minutes after a baby’s birth are a magical time for bonding. The “golden hour” after birth is critical to the child’s growth and development.
08/06/2019
Mothers can transfer life-long protection against infection to infants by breastfeeding Mothers can transfer life-long protection against infection to their infants by breastfeeding. This was the finding from new research in mice by an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Cape Town.
08/06/2019
This is why moms breastfeed on flights and in public ... not that we should have to explain There seems to be a new story daily of a mom being shamed for feeding her hungry child in public. But science and laws support breastfeeding moms.
07/25/2019
Beyond 'Good' Vs. 'Bad' Touch: 4 Lessons To Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Twenty states now require sexual abuse prevention education as early as preschool. Educators say it's up to adults to know the signs and symptoms of abuse — and teach behaviors that could prevent it.
07/25/2019
Largest Waterbirth Study Proves it's Safe for Mom and Baby (Updated) | The Midwives Of New Jersey Largest Waterbirth Study Proves it is Safe In 2017, the Midwives of New Jersey hosted the New Jersey Symposium for Physiologic Birth: 2017 The Evidence
07/23/2019
Top 130+ Recommended African-American Children’s Books Children Book authors and avid readers contributed their favorite children’s Books to a list of the, “Top 130 Recommended African-American Children’s Books.”
07/23/2019
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07/23/2019
Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World A U.N. report revealed that 87,000 women were murdered last year, and over half were killed by intimate partners or family members.
07/23/2019
Only small amounts of THC transfer into breast milk New data shows that only 2.5% of the THC in a joint transfers into breast milk. Here is how smart timing may lower baby's THC exposure even further and other practical suggestions for mothers who consider using cannabis while breastfeeding.
07/23/2019
Can Plant-Based Diet Stave Off Diabetes? So it appears, but eliminating animal foods entirely may be overkill
07/22/2019
"Goodnight Moon" as read by LeVar Burton to Neil deGrasse Tyson "Goodnight Moon" as read by LeVar Burton to Neil deGrasse Tyson at event for Andy Weir’s new book at For more exclusive ...
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Top 130+ Recommended African-American Children’s Books Children Book authors and avid readers contributed their favorite children’s Books to a list of the, “Top 130 Recommended African-American Children’s Books.”
07/20/2019
This Ad Campaign Celebrating Postpartum Bodies Is Exactly What New Moms Need I remember the first time I really looked at myself after giving birth to my fourth son. It was an accident; I had been avoiding cameras and mirrors for the first week when I happened upon a surprise mirror in my mom's washroom. After taking a bath.…
07/20/2019
Menstrual Cups: Study Finds They're Safe To Use — And People Like Them A comprehensive analysis looks at the cup, its ability to prevent leaks — and whether it could be a viable alternative to pads and tampons in low-income countries.
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