Often on Facebook, I come across posts where mothers interpret events after a cesarean birth as necessitating surgery because the baby passed meconium into the amniotic fluid, posing a life-threatening situation. Let's delve deeper into this topic and determine if meconium in the amniotic fluid...
Synthetic IV oxytocin infusion during childbirth – commonly referred to as Pitocin or just Pit – is one of the most common obstetric interventions. In this post we'll take a look at what oxytocin hormone is and what its role is during birth and what crucial differences are...
When you hear that a newborn baby's umbilical cord is wrapped around their neck, it can be a frightening moment, and you might ponder the potential life-threatening implications. You may also consider how fortunate it is that the baby's life was saved in the hospital! In this post, I will shed...
