Skin to Skin Contact with Your Premature Baby
When you find out you’re pregnant, the last thing you want to do is plan for a less than ideal birth. You want to share 40 weeks of blissful pregnancy, followed by a four hour labor and five minute delivery, then hold your newborn in your arms and bond. I hope that’s your experience.
But it may not be. And if it’s not, you’ll likely experience a range of emotions from fear to anger to grief. But remember, even if things don’t go as you’d hoped, you can still have a perfectly healthy baby.
One possible change in your plan is a premature birth. Sadly, when baby comes early, there may need ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 9, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Prenatal Prenatal Preparation Top Prenatal Source Type: blogs
Skin to Skin Contact with Your Premature Baby
When you find out you’re pregnant, the last thing you want to do is plan for a less than ideal birth. You want to share 40 weeks of blissful pregnancy, followed by a four hour labor and five minute delivery, then hold your newborn in your arms and bond. I hope that’s your experience.
But it may not be. And if it’s not, you’ll likely experience a range of emotions from fear to anger to grief. But remember, even if things don’t go as you’d hoped, you can still have a perfectly healthy baby.
One possible change in your plan is a premature birth. Sadly, when baby comes early, there may need ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 9, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Pregnancy & Birth Prenatal Prenatal Preparation Top Prenatal Source Type: blogs
November blogs digest: Cas9, Angelina Jolie, diabetes, and more
Extending the study of evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to medical practice intended to enhance decision making, recognizing that only the strongest study types can yield strong recommendations. Many people owe their lives to evidence-based medicine, benefitting from trials and observational studies that have informed early diagnosis and effective treatments. But the indisputable successes are no cause for complacency, and Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford, explained more.
Cas9: one protein to rule them all
We hail CRISPR/Cas as the most ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - December 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sophie Marchant Tags: Biology Health Medicine blogs digest genomics Source Type: blogs
Remembering Dr. Pamela Davies & her work with premature babies: A personal tribute
Dr. Pamela Davies may not be a household name, but she radically improved the life chances of premature babies.
I had direct experience of this – in fact it is largely due to her work that I’m even around to write this. My early weeks, more than 45 years ago, were spent at Hammersmith Hospital in London after my twin sister Jenny and I were born ten weeks premature – weighing in at 3lbs 5oz and 2lbs 12oz. The circumstances of our birth were anything but usual – the doctors discovered mum was carrying twins less than 24 hours earlier. Mum did have her suspicions. ‘What, do you have an elephant in there?’ my gran...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Champions Childbirth DW UK Source Type: blogs
Nice job, mama! How a physician makes breastfeeding work.
At a family outing to the zoo a few weeks ago I sat on a bench to nurse my 6-month-old son while my husband took our older son on the carousel. I felt a tap on my shoulder. “Nice job, Mama!” I looked up and saw a woman smiling ear to ear as she was dragged by her own child towards the carousel. I got a little misty. Even as a neonatal intensive care doctor who is well-versed in the numerous, well-documented benefits of breastfeeding, acts of solidarity from total strangers sometimes do more to strengthen my resolve to keep doing this … this, not the nursing, a truly gratifying experience for which I am deeply gratefu...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Naomi Laventhal, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Getting (to the Value) of Value In Health Care
By SUSAN DENTZER
How would you judge the value of your health care? A longstanding definition of treatment holds that value is the health outcomes achieved for the dollars spent. Yet behind that seemingly simple formula lies much complexity.
Think about it: Calculating outcomes and costs for treating a short-term acute condition, such as a child’s strep throat, may be easy. But it’s far harder to pinpoint value in a long-term serious illness such as advanced cancer, in which both both the outcomes and costs of treating a given individual—let alone a population with a particular cancer—may be unknown for years. And ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB PCORI Physicians Robert Wood Johnson Theranos Value value-based care Source Type: blogs
Infant Dies Following 5 Vaccine Doses
Life after losing a loved one to vaccines is very painful. With a heavy heart, we share Sebastian Ryan Morley’s story. He was a healthy boy whose life ended after routine vaccinations. Sebastian’s mother and grandmother have worked many years in both the veterinary and human healthcare fields. What they were taught in school led them to believe vaccines were safe, but now they will never vaccinate again. We thank his family for coming forward and sharing very important information the public isn’t usually made aware of.
Sebastian’s grandmother, Valerie Murfin, shared:
“On December 11, 2002, when my grandson Sebas...
Source: vactruth.com - September 5, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Top Stories Augustina Ursino Human Hepatitis B vaccine VAERS vaccine injury dtap Vaccine Death adverse reactions truth about vaccines Sebastian Ryan Morley Valerie Murfin Source Type: blogs
Heartfelt – Photography of Troubled Births [EOL in Art 49]
Heartfelt is a volunteer organisation of professional photographers from all over Australia dedicated to giving the gift of photographic memories to families that have experienced stillbirths, premature births, or have children with serious and termina... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 28, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Considering best care for extremely premature babies
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to attend a lecture given by Dr. Mark Mercurio of Yale University on making ethical decisions regarding the treatment of neonatal babies. Dr. Mercurio’s talk focused on the topic of aggressive treatment of extremely premature infants (22 – 25 week gestational age). Although I have devoted much of my time to researching beginning of life issues (predominantly... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 24, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Courtney Thiele Tags: Health Care bioethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
22 Week Babies – Viable After All
This week's New England Journal of Medicine reports that in a large and systematic study of thousands of premature births, a tiny minority of babies born at 22 weeks who were medically treated survived with few health problems. The study also fou... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 8, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Nickson Would be Celebrating Life if it Weren’t for Vaccines
Conclusion
Parents need to be able to choose what goes into their child’s body, especially when their babies are not born full-term or have any underlying health problems at birth. When a product such as a vaccine is injected into a child, known to be associated with severe risks, including death, there should be a standard protocol in place for these families to get needed support when the risks outweigh the benefits. No one can predict how a vaccine will negatively affect a person.
Lindsey and other families going through this, suffering the loss of a child likely caused by the vaccine(s) given to them, when no other p...
Source: vactruth.com - April 9, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) vaccine court Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs
Mothers’ Sounds Are Building Block for Babies’ Brains
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
reprinted from the New York Times
The sound of a mother’s voice plays a critical role in a baby’s early development, multiple studies have shown. Now, researchers have demonstrated that the brain itself may rely on a mother’s voice and heartbeat to grow.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston studied 40 babies born eight to 15 weeks prematurely. Like most severely premature babies, the infants were confined to incubators and spent limited time with their mothers.
“Preemies born this early are basically fetuses that happen to be out there by accident,” said Amir ...
Source: Cord Blood News - February 26, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy Uncategorized babies heartbeat cerebral palsy due dates expectant mothers future of cord blood healthy pregnancy new baby science what to expect when you' Source Type: blogs
On a Mission of Hope: Nurse, Entrepreneur, Humanitarian Sharon Hackney-Robinson
I meet extraordinary people; each one talented, dedicated and energetic. I must be the luckiest person on the planet. It happened again recently, this time reading a short article in Oprah’s magazine. That’s where I first met Sharon Hackney-Robinson.
Like me, she was in health care and an entrepreneur making a major life transition. I sent her a note of encouragement through her website. She answered right away. Wow! Was I impressed! I was sure she was being deluged by Oprah’s following; yet she took the time to write back. In the months since, we’ve talked and recently met for lunch. I am honored to know her. I...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Source Type: blogs
A Century Ago
I woke up today with a sad glint of recollection. Today, December 10th would have been my grandma's 100th birthday. It occurs to me that since her death in 2010, so much has happened that we haven't gotten to share with her.It's funny how the passage of time can escape us until a commemorative date like today appears. I miss her on so many days - particularly on those she would have told me how proud she was of me and how much she loved me with a hug and perhaps a tear or two. I thought of her the day I got married and imagined how much she would have loved her grandson-in-law. I thought of her the day my sister's bea...
Source: Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. - December 11, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
