October Meeting!

Please join us for the upcoming October Meeting on Tuesday Oct 6th at 7pm, we will be celebrating birth by having a birth art meeting! We will be doing a live belly casting, have a henna artist on site and many other great ways to portray your birth art!! Supplies are provided and everyone is encouraged to come and make your birth experiences a masterpiece!! We will see you all there!

What's on My Food?? This new website will show you the levels of pesticides in common foods.

click here for more info

Parents weigh the risk of vaccinating children for H1N1

Copy and paste the link below to go to the full story!

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-no-fear14-2009sep14,0,7700102,full.story

Study: Home birth with midwife as safe as hospital birth

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-03-midwife-home-birth_N.htm

The Earliest Fetal Memory? Dutch Doctors Say the Unborn may Have Memories by the 30th Week of Pregnancy

n a study of 100 of pregnant women in the Netherlands, researchers say they found evidence that fetuses have short-term memory of sounds by the 30th week of pregnancy, and develop a long-term memory of sound after that.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=8083181&page=1

More C-Sections, more problems...

More C-sections, more problems

As the expensive surgery's popularity rises, so have premature births, maternal deaths and neonatal intensive care admissions. Serious medical intervention has diminishing returns, a doctor notes.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/business/fi-cover-birth17

August Meeting!!

Hello Ladies!
We are excited to be discussing post-partum healing and resting, bring a friend, your baby, your bellies, and have some fun! We will have yummy snacks and lots of info for ya!!