API encourages parents to make informed choice regarding childbirth, and that includes selecting your health care provider. Many AP families choose midwifery. API's blog discusses a couple reasons why.
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If you’re anything like me, your first pregnancy may have been typical in terms of common interventions. Ultrasounds? Of course! Doesn’t everybody get those? Antibiotics for GBS? I heard that was safest… Pitocin and an epidural? |
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My mother was pregnant with me in 1978. Labor induction was unusual, and so the weeks ticked by past her due date until finally, at almost 44 weeks, she went to the hospital to be induced. |
Sometimes, moms who know during pregnancy that they want to practice Attachment Parenting worry that it will be more difficult or impossible after a cesarean birth. |
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There's growing debate (and growing support) in the U.S. around paid parental leave. It's become a major campaign issue, and many states and municipalities are considering its pros, cons, and costs. |
I hired a doula for my third child's birth. My third baby was on track to be my first, and only, normal childbirth experience. I knew in my heart of hearts that having a doula was the best chance I had to reach my goals. |
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"Critiques of the CDC message aside (no point in reiterating what has been said by many, many others; plus, you can draw your own conclusions), many families are left, once again, wondering what to believe and what course of action to take. |
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“Our research shows that when we don’t provide children with what they evolved to need, they turn into adults with decreased social and moral capacities,” Narvaez said. |
2015 was a full year! |
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