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Birth

Articles and Handouts
about birth related procedures

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Pushing

  • Calls to Push Does Not Shorten Labor
  • The Evidence on: Birthing Positions
  • Perineal Massage and Pushing
  • Purple Pushing

Episiotomies

  • Episiotomies
  • New Guidelines Restrict Episiotomies
  • Perineal Massage at Birth
  • Dying to Cut – Unnecessary Surgeries You May Want to Avoid, and Why

Cord Clamping and Cord Blood Banking

  • Banking Umbilical Cord Blood 
  • Journal of Midwifery Study: Delayed Cord Clamping
  • Cochrane on Delayed Cord Clamping 
  • Delayed Cord Clamping Increases Iron Stores in Baby
  • Do We Clamp Cord Too Soon?
  • Early Cord Clamping 
  • Risks of Early Cord Clamping
  • Better fine motor skills with delayed cord clamping
  • Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping on Neurodevelopment at 4 Years of Age
  • Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping May Benefit Children Years Later
  • Delayed Cord Clamping Ground Rounds

After Birth

  • The Evidence on: Erythromycin Eye Ointment for Newborns
  • The Case Against Antibiotic Eye Drops for Newborns
  • Newborn eye treatment ‘doesn’t work,’ say pediatricians who want law repealed
  • Pre-and Postpartum Mental Health Services

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