Birth

Guest Post by Village Ob, Once the baby is born the common practice in the United States for decades has been to quickly clamp the umbilical cord, cut it and hand the baby off. However, there has been renewed interest in understanding what the optimal time to clamp the cord …

Guest Post by Village Obstetrics, About 20% of first births in the United States are by Cesarean delivery. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises women to consider a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) for their next birth. However, the latest statistics reveal that 90% of US women …

A Guest Article by Yiska Obadia, This comfort measures checklist is based on my experience as a doula and a facebook thread that received over 90 responses to the question “if you’ve given birth, what was one of your favorite comfort measures during labor?” What emerged were over 30 distinct …

      By Jak Burke, Baby Does NYC, I wanted to know what it was like to be a midwife. So I caught up with Lucia Diaz a Spanish midwife working in England. Tell us a little bit about your background as a midwife and how you got started? …

  By Jak Burke, the words “minimally invasive” and “obstetrics” or “gentle” and “cesarean” don’t usually go together if you stop to think about child birth: natural, vaginal or cesarean. That is until you understand the philosophy behind Village Obstetrics. As with any major life transition the birth experience can …

    By Jak Burke, Is it possible to have it all?  If we can have our cake and eat it – that would be a remarkable thing. When it comes to childbirth it has been common to assume that it’s a necessary hurdle in the pursuit of parenthood – …

  By Jak Burke, My friend’s mother had a small case kept tucked beneath the bed. When it was time for her to go to hospital to give birth she would quietly pull it out and fill it with things that she knew she would need. It was a quiet …

    By Jak Burke, Annually up to three million American women suffer from sadness and anxiety after childbirth according to Mayo Clinic. Postpartum depression hasn’t anything to do with unresolved feelings towards motherhood but it does have everything to do with hormones. Good news is that new moms can …