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Jill Stanek - British Columbia's most prolific mother gives birth to #18

Congratulations to the Ionce family for baby #18!

Tags: families, babies, pregnancy, birth on 2008-07-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Helping a Family Through the Loss of a Baby

Many people don't know what to say or do for a couple going through this. Here are some words of wisdom.

Tags: stillbirth, pregnancy, grief, death, loss on 2008-07-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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encourage the family to hold their baby when possible. It is heartbreaking, but it is the only chance that they will every have. When our son died, our parents didn't hold him because they didn't know if it would be all right. They will never get that chance again. Of course, the birth attendant should treat the baby with the same respect that would be shown to a live baby. Wrap the baby in blankets, hold him/her gently, and support the baby's head. This will encourage the family to hold and bond with their child. Even if the child didn't make it to term, encourage the family to name the child.
Encourage the family to take a couple of rolls of pictures of the baby. Pictures may include the baby wrapped in blankets, the baby unwrapped, any parts of the baby that are attractive (hands, feet, ears), the baby held by the mother and/or father, a picture of the baby's hand resting on the mother's and/or father's hand. Be sure that something in the pictures shows the size of the baby (a hand, a toy, a measuring tape). In our situation, our son was very tiny, but it doesn't show in the pictures.
Listen. Don't interrupt. Don't judge or offer platitudes. Don't tell them that God needed another angel in Heaven. Call the baby by name. Let them cry. Cry with them. Let them know that their baby was important to you, too.
Talk to the father specifically. Don't ask him how his wife is doing. Ask him how he's doing. Hug him and let him know it's okay to be sad. Our society doesn't give him that freedom, so grant it to him at least in your presence.

My Domestic Church: Being open to the new life God might send.

Tags: AGH, VVG, agracioushome, childbirth, motherhood, pregnancy, bestofMDC on 2008-07-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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My Domestic Church: Mother's love your babies.

Tags: EIFWAL, mothersloveyourbabies, grief, death, pregnancy on 2008-07-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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What to do and/or say... - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Discussion Forum

Tags: grief, death, miscarriage, stillbirth, pregnancy, loss on 2008-04-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Midwifery World : New York Times Movie Review: The Business of Being Born

Tags: VVG, birth, childbirth, midwifery, pregnancy on 2008-02-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Fetal Psychology

Armed with highly sensitive and sophisticated monitoring gear, DiPietro and other researchers today are discovering that the real action starts weeks earlier. At 32 weeks of gestation - two months before a baby is considered fully prepared for the world

Tags: VVG, abortion, birth, childbirth, pregnancy on 2008-02-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Armed with highly sensitive and sophisticated monitoring gear, DiPietro and other researchers today are discovering that the real action starts weeks earlier. At 32 weeks of gestation - two months before a baby is considered fully prepared for the world, or "at term" - a fetus is behaving almost exactly as a newborn. And it continues to do so for the next 12 weeks.
Closer to birth, the fetus sleeps 85 or 90% of the time: the same as a newborn. Between its frequent naps, the fetus seems to have "something like an awake alert period,' according to developmental psychologist William Filer, Ph.D., who with his Columbia University colleagues is monitoring these sleep and wakefulness cycles in order to identify patterns of normal and abnormal brain development, including potential predictors of sudden infant death syndrome. Says Filer, "We are, in effect, asking the fetus: 'Are you paying attention? Is your nervous system behaving in the appropriate way?'"
By 13 to 15 weeks a fetus' taste buds already look like a mature adult's, and doctors know that the amniotic fluid that surrounds it can smell strongly of curry, cumin, garlic, onion and other essences from a mother's diet. Whether fetuses can taste these flavors isn't yet known, but scientists have found that a 33-week-old preemie will suck harder on a sweetened nipple than on a plain rubber one.
"Behavior doesn't begin at birth," declares DiPietro. "It begins before and develops in predictable ways." One of the most important influences on development is the fetal environment. As Harvard's Als observes, "The fetus gets an enormous amount of 'hormonal bathing' through the mother, so its chronobiological rhythms are influenced by the mother's sleep/wake cycles, her eating patterns, her movements."

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A Move for Birth Certificates for Stillborn Babies - New York Times

Yet, the concept of birth certificates for stillbirth raises complicated questions. In heated Web discussions, some people cite the parents’ deep need for validation while others say birth certificates are legal documents, not memory trinkets or prize

Tags: VVG, birth, pregnancy, stillbirth on 2008-02-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Babies - Fetal Pain - Abortions - Women - Pregnancy and Obstetrics - Medicine and Health - New York Times

“What’s going on in there to make these babies so stressed?” Anand wondered. Breaking with hospital practice, he wrangled permission to follow his patients into the O.R. “That’s when I discovered that the babies were not gettinganesthesia,”

Tags: VVG, abortion, birth, childbirth, pregnancy on 2008-02-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Vocation of Marriage and Parenthood

The quickest answer to all these trepidations comes from the greatest lesson our late Pope gave to us: Be Not Afraid. Ha! You say – easier said than done! And it is easy to say and not always easy to do when you are faced with losing your house, car, jo

Tags: TOTB, VVG, family, humanaevitae, pregnancy on 2006-11-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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