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6 Risks of Turning a Breech Baby

January 10, 2018 By Lauren McClain

If you find yourself at the end of pregnancy with a baby who is still head up, you may want to try to encourage baby to turn head down. There are three ways to help a breech baby go head-down: At Home There are multiple ways to try helping your breech baby turn virtually risk-free [...]

Art of Deception in Obstetrics: Deformed Consent

November 6, 2017 By Lauren McClain

You know about informed consent: They inform you of what they want to do and give you a paper to consent on. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. Informed consent was meant to cover bases for both clinicians and patients. Because medical knowledge is limited and the effects of any procedure or drug even more [...]

Hospitals Can Charge To Let You Hold Your Baby: Here’s Why

November 15, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Part I: Skin-to-Skin, Mama-to-Mama When you can successfully charge a person money to hold their own baby, you have really made it in the world of business. You have probably heard about the couple who found a $39 charge for skin-to-skin time in the operating room on their bill. It’s an evil genius model, but it’s […]

Elements of Easier Birth

September 14, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Trusting the process...the whole process Although women have no second thoughts about growing a baby (ooo...gotta work on growing some tiny toenails today!), they very often lack trust in the birth process. We trust our bodies to grow the baby. We need to trust them to get the baby out as well. A good childbirth education class [...]

How to Verify You Have a Good Doctor Without Offending Anyone

May 16, 2016 By Lauren McClain

What do you do when you're on vacation and looking for a place to eat? You can go to a fast food place or a chain restaurant and have a good idea of what you're going to get. This is because everything is franchised and standardized. If you want a better, memorable experience, though, you probably look [...]