Whatever happened to Health for All? Ups and downs of protection of breastfeeding, regulation of transnational corporations and Health for All, by Lida Llotska http://www.gifa.org/files/protection.pdf Continue Reading
The Power of Placebo
This Guardian article was interesting, with quite a balanced attitude to harmless interventions such as homeopathy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/feb/06/homeopathy-homeopathic-nhs-placebo-effect I want to read his book, so will review it here when I have. If you've read it, please Continue Reading
Do We Need Antibiotics for Premature Rupture of Membranes?
Articles The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9646, Pages 1310 - 1318, 11 October 2008 Editors' note: In 2001, the ORACLE I trial showed that in women with premature rupture of the fetal membranes, but no overt sign of infection, erythromycin and co-amoxiclav prolonged pregnancy and erythromycin also Continue Reading
Homebirth in the news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1084097/I-gave-birth-bathroom---women-babies-hospital.html Continue Reading
Babies hit the Bottle
Any Ideas What's Wrong with This?http://www.babysportonline.eu/A gold star for the first person to give me more than one reason why this product is raising my blood pressure! Continue Reading
outrage behind bars
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1184614595/bctid1772034200 Continue Reading
It’s September already!
New Month, New LifeHi, I'm back! Feel like it's been a long time since I was able to sit down at my keyboard and waffle. Since I last posted, we have moved house, the children have started their new school, I've had a tooth abcess and root canal work and Linda and I have started off another group of Continue Reading
Linda and I seem to have successfully put a group together for doula training in September. It looks like we have 7 or 8 wonderful women coming, so room for one or 2 more...The groups seem to come together in the same way every time - we worry that we won't get anyone enquiring, then boom we get 3 Continue Reading
Well, we've exchanged contracts! We have a moving date of Friday next week. I do really hope this is the last time we move for a good long time; I'm tired of packing, unpacking and carting the children from pillar to post. Now I've got the major nesting urge I never really got when I was pregnant Continue Reading
2 million quid…
...to support and promote breastfeeding. How lovely, I hear you say; so nice to see how the Government supports nursing mothers.Before you applaud too loudly though, remember that this is probably what just one artificial milk manufacturer spends in a couple of months on advertising and insidious Continue Reading