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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 8:40:19 AM
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HomeSpunLady
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I read that colostrum, the pre-milk, is high in vitamin K. So the vitamin K before the 8th day is unnecessary. And the body naturally begins to produce regular levels of vitamin K before day 8. We will not be getting the vitamin K shot.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 9:40:23 AM
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As for the newborn hearing screening...it can be useful to have it..but I see no real reason why it cannot wait for 8 days. It doesn't insure that your child can hear...just removes or identifies certain congenital factors that may affect their hearing so that you can make choices concerning your child's training/care as they grow up if they are hearing disabled.
according to the audiologist that we saw for Jake's test (8 years ago), over 80% of all babies fail the first hearing test...so don't freak out if that happens...it really doesn't mean they are deaf.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 10:39:29 AM
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As for the newborn hearing screening...it can be useful to have it..but I see no real reason why it cannot wait for 8 days. It doesn't insure that your child can hear...just removes or identifies certain congenital factors that may affect their hearing so that you can make choices concerning your child's training/care as they grow up if they are hearing disabled.
according to the audiologist that we saw for Jake's test (8 years ago), over 80% of all babies fail the first hearing test...so don't freak out if that happens...it really doesn't mean they are deaf.
which is why I said it can be useful to make choices IF they are hearing disabled...and just as failing it doesn't mean they ARE deaf...passing it does NOT mean they can hear either. It just helps to identify potential problems so that they can be more aware of following those areas.....most kids do just fine.
Thing is....it is useful...like knowing their blood type is useful...but not critical.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 10:46:16 AM
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Thing is....it is useful...like knowing their blood type is useful...but not critical.
lol..yeah
(although for us it is critical...well, for me more then the baby....cause hubby and I have opposite blood types...he is O+ and I am O-...so if the baby doesn't match my blood type then I have to have a shot after they are born)
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 10:58:16 AM
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Thing is....it is useful...like knowing their blood type is useful...but not critical.
lol..yeah
(although for us it is critical...well, for me more then the baby....cause hubby and I have opposite blood types...he is O+ and I am O-...so if the baby doesn't match my blood type then I have to have a shot after they are born)
lol...true that is for you and future babies...lol...but for the care of the infant, in general, it's not important because if there is an emergency that requires blood donation....they check the patient's blood type as well as give universal donor blood until the typing results are back.....but yes...if you know that you and hubby have Rh incompatibility...it is critical for mom and sometimes baby for that to be known (but particularly for future babies).
Basically all that simply to state that except for the PKU...none of these (newborn hearing test/vitamin k) are necessary on a routine basis..and the PKU gets a better result if you wait until your milk has come in...that way you can know if baby has any metabolic disorders, etc that are CRITICAL to the development ofyour child.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/24/2008 11:05:09 AM
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Basically all that simply to state that except for the PKU...none of these (newborn hearing test/vitamin k) are necessary on a routine basis..and the PKU gets a better result if you wait until your milk has come in...that way you can know if baby has any metabolic disorders, etc that are CRITICAL to the development ofyour child.  yup!!
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/27/2008 8:35:23 AM
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So it's 'out' in the church, by this time, I'm sure. We had a potluck on sunday and a lady who I don't know really well was sitting next to us and asked where I was delievering. I didn't know what to say, as homebirthing still has a bad rep. I told her we had a midwife and hoped that would satisfy her. She figured it out. "oh, at home!" Well the lady beside me picked up on that, "Oh at home!" Like its a shock. Well, I'm sure it is. People just don't give birth to their babies at home. It's just not done! I was really hoping to avoid it altogether. But it doesn't look like it. Maybe it's good that people are finding out early, rather than right before I go into labor, that way the questions will be answered, people will stop asking or trying to convince me and I'll be able to just focus on the birth.
The way people think about me does effect me way too much, I know that. But I don't know what to do about that. I just need to let it go and it's something I'm working on. I've read so much about why it's better and so on, but for some people statistics don't cut it. They believe what they believe and aren't going to be persuaded. That's fine, I just don't need people trying to get me to do something different. To scare me. And, no one has, in words, but you can see it in their faces when we talk about it. They are skeptical. Ack! Help! I need words of encouragement.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/27/2008 9:31:12 AM
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One of the nice things about talking about it, actually, is that you will find other women who have done the same, or who know someone who has homebirthed. It actually IS done, and quite a bit!
As for what people think of you...you will be dealing with that in every area of your life for the rest of your life, so I guess you need to decide ASAP that your DH and your heavenly Father are the only two opinions that really count?
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/27/2008 12:44:54 PM
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In the small town I used to live in, it's actually "all the rage" to have a homebirth.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/27/2008 3:20:27 PM
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Kathryn - I had a pastor who's wife delievered several of their children at home (and this was 10 years ago - and in our area of the country, was not done -period!!!). She had already had I think 2 homebirths before they moved to our town. Then while they were in our town, numbers 8 and 9 were born in the parsonage- along with a couple of miscarriages (one of which was later in the pregnancy). So by the time she got to number 9, people were aware that when her time came, their house was no longer just an open door. While many people looked at them crazy (number of kids, homeschooling and homebirth!!) they also loved them and came to a point where they dealt with it. By the way, number 13 was born about 18 months ago (all their own and no multiple births (though there was a set of twins at one point in time, but she lost one and carried the other to term).
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 10:49:17 AM
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I know it's something I need to just let go of. I'm working on it. It helps to talk about it on here, though. I've always been weird, I just didn't know I'd be this weird. I mean, we don't eat red meat on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. And we are weird.
It just takes time and I know it's what the Lord wants. And what hubby wants, so it works!
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 6:56:04 PM
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Oh - and no matter what, you'll still get the "if I'd had my baby at home, he/she would have died" comments. It's hard ... and those comments are especially difficult to address!
Have you noticed that most of the the people who say that wouldn't have had any problems if they would have given birth at home? The reason the baby had problems is usually because of hospital interventions or germs the baby go in the hospital.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 6:59:12 PM
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Oh - and no matter what, you'll still get the "if I'd had my baby at home, he/she would have died" comments. It's hard ... and those comments are especially difficult to address!
Have you noticed that most of the the people who say that wouldn't have had any problems if they would have given birth at home? The reason the baby had problems is usually because of hospital interventions or germs the baby go in the hospital.
not necessarily. I don't want to start a debate in here, but hospitals have their place for some women.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 7:16:54 PM
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yes, which is why I said most and usually.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 8:02:02 PM
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I am not saying that those women have a right to use scare tactics on anyone...they don't for sure, however until you have been there you really don't get it. Three of mine turned out good and no problems and probably could have been safely born at home (or anywhere else)...but not one of mine. It was medical intervention that SAVED his life AND my life...and after going through that experience I am grateful for dr's and hospitals...they have their place in certain situations.
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/28/2008 10:58:05 PM
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Sometimes, though, they tell their story and I just shake my head and wish that things could have been different for them.
I experience that a lot. It is so clear to me how the intervention caused the problems...but all they know to think is 'the doctor saved my baby!'
(PS, I know sometimes they actually do, but most of the time, they don't do anything but control the damage they caused...so don't accuse me of being a doctor-hater or saying they all do bad things to women)
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RE: Natural Childbirth-support and discussion - 5/29/2008 7:27:27 AM
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And, correct me if I'm wrong, aren't most of the 'problems' in labor known beforehand? Like high bp, placenta problems, breech baby, baby with known physical problems?
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