Nasal Aspirator. Suction Bulb. Bulb Syringe. Snot Sucker (my kids’ favorite).
Whatever you call it, I know you are familiar with it.
It’s just a standard thing that is used on babies. In fact it has to be used, right? And why WOULDN’T you want to use it? Besides the fact that no one dreams about one of these coming at them.
“They say I have ADD, but they just don’t understand…oh look! a chicken!”
Yep, this T shirt is funny t-shirt if you don’t have a kid with ADD.
No one wants their fantasy daydreams of lazily playing with your kids, having them pay attention and understand what you are saying the first time are replaced by hyper activity, misunderstandings and constant distractions.
For years women have been reporting horrific side effects from this Terbutaline for pre term labor. The FDA has known that it has been used off label for quite a while now, and instead of commissioning a study when they became aware of it, they turned a blind eye and did nothing until recently. The study has concluded the following:
It wasn’t until I was well into being a childbirth educator and a doula did I find out some other things about the cervix. Things that would change how I forever approach supporting women in labor and birth.
Scheduling your birth can have very heavy handed consequences, like prematurity, breathing problem, death and brain damage – not to mention more labor pain. But given all those risks, I have to assume that women are not being informed of them, nor seeking informed consent, because you have to be out of your mind to trade those risks for a “I think smaller babier are cuter” type of excuse. But even if you get off the hook clinically, you will always be wondering what your body is capable of doing on its own and what your baby’s real birthday would have been. .
New research now confirms what many women have instinctively have known:
Vaginal birth after 1 cesarean is safe
Vaginal birth after 2 cesareans is safe
Vaginal Birth after 3 cesareans is safe
It’s likely that you have heard of RSV and may even know someone who’d baby has had RSV. The illness itself, in conjunction with the treatment, can put infants at high risk of lifelong illness and complications. It’s nothing you want to mess with.
New findings on Vitamin D and newborns tell us that high levels of vitamin D at birth is very protective against wheezing and respiratory infections, which can include RSV and bronchitis. In fact, vitamin D deficient newborns (levels below 25 nmol/L) are twice as likely than their counterparts to develop infections. Average levels were 44 nmol/L, which is still considered low as many now consider levels as high as 100 nmol/L to be a healthy amount.
Sometimes I take for granted just how far we’ve come in our society, but it wasn’t too long ago that men and women bought into these stupid ads. You look at them and think, ‘How did people even think this was okay?’ Of course it was lack of information and recommendations from authority and friends. We think we have got it all figured out now, that there can’t possibly be products and ads today that can be as backwards as these are. I predict there are….many of them. I’d love to see some sort of blog post of the future of what ads and stupidity we bought in to.
Childbirth has not always been viewed as a peaceful experience and has always been subject to predominant cultural attitudes, whether those voices are from the religious, scientific, or public and social sector. It can be easy to get wrapped up in the pain, fear, and other obvious factors that can accompany childbirth. But it takes a deep understanding of ourselves, faith in the process and our bodies and babies, and a long-term perspective to walk into the birth experience with confidence and eagerness and walk out of it with the joy and serenity you are seeking. We are at a distinct advantage in our earth’s history where we have thousands of years of both successful and failed documented birth practices, the knowledge of how to prevent the majority of complications in pregnancy, birth and postpartum, the experience and wisdom of our ancestors and modern-day birth “sages.”
I find that most OB’s give a lot of lip service to VBAC. A lot. They talk the talk, but hardly ever walk the walk.
As much as it ruffles my feathers to hear some OB’s outright tell women that it is their way or the highway, I prefer that upfront ego to veiled half truths and lies. For those OB’s that like to string you along until your 38th week of pregnancy, telling you that a VBAC is possible, it becomes all to common that your pregnancy is the one that is that rare exception and – oops, sorry, we just have to schedule another cesarean, but all that matters is a healthy baby, right? If you’ve read my book, you will laugh at that last statement, because you know it’s the ultimate in manipulation and cowardice, and it’s what OB’s say when they want you to agree with them, because challenging that makes you look stupid and negligent. So then your eyes glaze over, you just smile, nod your head yes, and quietly die a little bit more inside, right?
