Arrived September 21st at 4:05 am
9 days past estimated due date
10lbs 4ozs
21.5 inches
100%adorable
Showing posts with label Ina May Gaskin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ina May Gaskin. Show all posts
Friday, September 21, 2012
It's a girl!
Nola Anne Oyakawa
Arrived September 21st at 4:05 am
9 days past estimated due date
10lbs 4ozs
21.5 inches
100%adorable
Arrived September 21st at 4:05 am
9 days past estimated due date
10lbs 4ozs
21.5 inches
100%adorable
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Unless you work at Golden Corral...
I have probably cooked more than you in the past few days.
In fact in the span of 4.5 days I cooked over 48 meals!! All those meals plus extra beans for the freezer.
You see cooking is the only thing I can do ahead of time. I can't stockpile laundry or vacuuming.
Over $400 shopping trip (three stores)
60 pans and lids from Sams club
Triple or quadruple batches of everything, above chili, below pork tenderloin with tomatoes over rice and veggies. (or maybe that's chicken I don't remember.)
one layer of saran wrap then lid to prevent freezer burn, Just don't forget to take off the saran wrap before putting in oven.
and label.
I have my own Hyperemesis Gravidarium protocol in place based off several from other people who go through this too:
Mine is not quite as in-depth.
1. Make tons of meal (DONE, I'd make more if I had more freezer space.)
2. Homemade Dilectin: borrowed from Whining Puker ( I have done this before but not smaller doses spread out during the day like she suggests)
10 mg Vitamin B6
10 mg Doxylamine Succinate, or Unisom - this is roughly half of one 25 mg tablet
10 mg Doxylamine Succinate, or Unisom - this is roughly half of one 25 mg tablet
3. Force myself to eat every 2 hours- Up protein at all meals! Snack on nuts.
4. Stay hydrated, and drink lots of lemon water (lemon is high alkaline, which can help based off this article.)
5. I am NOT taking pre-natal vitamins this time. They make me throw up - no way around it. So I am not trying anymore. A vitamin thrown up is not as good as a meal kept down.
6. Pray and meditate because like Ina May says "feelings effect labor" so I say feelings effect morning sickness too!
7. I honestly think that still breastfeeding PJ will help ease my morning sickness. Nursing while pregnant this is new for me.
I'll be six weeks along on Wednesday and I have not been sick yet (never gone this long before, so maybe the tides have changed for me! One sister from church said the older she got the less morning sickness she had so hip,hip, hooray for later pregnancies!!!
I have no defense for being pregnant at my sister's wedding. I have felt comfort in prayer that I will be A-OK for the big day. Which is rapidly approaching - how exciting!!!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
It is easy to scare women about their bodies.
You see this lady right here is one of my heros - If I got to meet her I think I'd bear hug her and spin her around the room. Her book was one of the biggest sources of strength for me second to the Book of Mormon in preparing for natural childbirth.
She is a beatnick turned midwife who tirelessly recorded data of the births she tended. And has become one of the most renowned midwives in the world who even has a technique named after her for safely getting a baby out with shoulder dystocia. The Gaskin Manuever.
She was recently awarded a Right livelihood Award also known as the "altenative Nobel"...Her acceptance speech was an amazing critque of the current state of affairs in modern obstetrics. Here are some of my favorite excerpts:
"When surgical and technological interventions in birth become the norm rather than the exception, the profession of midwifery loses its basis for existence, and obstetrics itself no longer encompasses the skills and knowledge that were once considered essential competencies of the profession.
What is often missed is that excessive cesarean rates have other negative consequences than the loss of midwifery and obstetrical knowledge and skills. Simply put, as rates rise beyond 15-20%, more women die from complications such as pulmonary embolism, infection, hemorrhage, and a sharp increase in placental complications in subsequent pregnancies. None of the countries with the highest cesarean rates can report on low maternal death rates. This is especially true of the U.S., where women now face at least twice the chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes as their mothers did. In California, between 1996 and 2006, the maternal death rate tripled, with much of the increase being attributed to an excess of cesareans.
If all countries put the welfare of mothers and babies at the center of maternity care policy, midwifery would have to grow strong again. In some countries, such as my own, it will be necessary to greatly increase the number of midwives as just one of the ways to prevent complications and to reduce rates of medical intervention in birth. We’ll need lots of doulas as we make this transition. Midwives need to have a say in the major issues surrounding birth. In countries where they currently work under the intense domination of obstetricians, the work will be to bring the relationship back to one of balance. Midwives cannot allow obstetricians to bully them, because doing so is almost certain to mean that laboring women will be the next ones to be bullied.
Attempts to make home birth illegal in any country will only distract from the real problems and exacerbate them, since planned home birth for healthy women provides a necessary safety valve for women who want a wider range of choice than their hospital might offer and a learning opportunity for midwives to learn about women in their natural state. Home birth midwives must be able to make a living from their work, and insurance companies should not be permitted to keep home birth midwives from being compensated for their work. Home birth midwives are being persecuted in almost every country, even in The Netherlands, where home birth services have a long and honorable tradition. I believe the development of a country can be measured by the degree to which it respects the right of a birthing mother to receive a woman centered birthing experience, whether the birth occurs in a home or hospital setting.
Birth shouldn’t be thought of as money-making commodity or condition in which large institutions or governments control and dictate how women will give birth, ignoring individual mother’s wishes and needs. Inevitably, this too often puts bullies in charge of women’s bodies, something no other mammalian species allows. Some countries have midwives who are totally subordinate to physicians. In these countries, it’s typical for very harsh methods of birth care to be applied, and outcomes show this. It’s time to stop this sort of behavior. Traditional peoples, indigenous people don’t permit such behavior. We need to learn from them."
if you are pregnant you want her books on your wishlist this Christmas! Here they all are.
She is a beatnick turned midwife who tirelessly recorded data of the births she tended. And has become one of the most renowned midwives in the world who even has a technique named after her for safely getting a baby out with shoulder dystocia. The Gaskin Manuever.
She was recently awarded a Right livelihood Award also known as the "altenative Nobel"...Her acceptance speech was an amazing critque of the current state of affairs in modern obstetrics. Here are some of my favorite excerpts:
"When surgical and technological interventions in birth become the norm rather than the exception, the profession of midwifery loses its basis for existence, and obstetrics itself no longer encompasses the skills and knowledge that were once considered essential competencies of the profession.
What is often missed is that excessive cesarean rates have other negative consequences than the loss of midwifery and obstetrical knowledge and skills. Simply put, as rates rise beyond 15-20%, more women die from complications such as pulmonary embolism, infection, hemorrhage, and a sharp increase in placental complications in subsequent pregnancies. None of the countries with the highest cesarean rates can report on low maternal death rates. This is especially true of the U.S., where women now face at least twice the chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes as their mothers did. In California, between 1996 and 2006, the maternal death rate tripled, with much of the increase being attributed to an excess of cesareans.
If all countries put the welfare of mothers and babies at the center of maternity care policy, midwifery would have to grow strong again. In some countries, such as my own, it will be necessary to greatly increase the number of midwives as just one of the ways to prevent complications and to reduce rates of medical intervention in birth. We’ll need lots of doulas as we make this transition. Midwives need to have a say in the major issues surrounding birth. In countries where they currently work under the intense domination of obstetricians, the work will be to bring the relationship back to one of balance. Midwives cannot allow obstetricians to bully them, because doing so is almost certain to mean that laboring women will be the next ones to be bullied.
Attempts to make home birth illegal in any country will only distract from the real problems and exacerbate them, since planned home birth for healthy women provides a necessary safety valve for women who want a wider range of choice than their hospital might offer and a learning opportunity for midwives to learn about women in their natural state. Home birth midwives must be able to make a living from their work, and insurance companies should not be permitted to keep home birth midwives from being compensated for their work. Home birth midwives are being persecuted in almost every country, even in The Netherlands, where home birth services have a long and honorable tradition. I believe the development of a country can be measured by the degree to which it respects the right of a birthing mother to receive a woman centered birthing experience, whether the birth occurs in a home or hospital setting.
Birth shouldn’t be thought of as money-making commodity or condition in which large institutions or governments control and dictate how women will give birth, ignoring individual mother’s wishes and needs. Inevitably, this too often puts bullies in charge of women’s bodies, something no other mammalian species allows. Some countries have midwives who are totally subordinate to physicians. In these countries, it’s typical for very harsh methods of birth care to be applied, and outcomes show this. It’s time to stop this sort of behavior. Traditional peoples, indigenous people don’t permit such behavior. We need to learn from them."
if you are pregnant you want her books on your wishlist this Christmas! Here they all are.
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