Foreword It has been more than two decades since the World Health Organization (WHO) issued technical guidance dedicated to the care of healthy pregnant women and their babies – Care in normal birth: a practical guide. The global landscape for maternity services, pregnancy classes, and birthing classes has changed considerably since that guidance was issued. […]
The U.S. current rate of cesaran section is around 31%. Labor & Delivery Nurse Ann Marie Gilligan’s Gilligan’s Guide teaches the importance of having an infant in the optimal position for birth, how to determine the position of the infant in utero, and how to get the infant into a more optimal fetal position during
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“Being clear about what it is that we fear is as important as determining the difference between reasonable risk and unreasonable risk….We must decide not only what we are frightened of but what the probability of that particular outcome is. We must learn to adjust our risks (of which there are many in life) by
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