Out Front

International Day of the Midwife

Baby Led Weaning: Two great sites on baby-led weaning.

http://www.rapleyweaning.com/

http://www.babyledweaning.com/

A Mother’s Voice: Research about social vocalizations initiating the release of oxytocin.

Hour of Birth: Hour of birth and birth assistance: From a primate to a medicalized pattern?

Newborn Sleep and Infant-Maternal Separation: Research on the impact of stress on infants in the newborn period.

Maternal Vitamin D deficiency and preeclampsia

Maternal Supplementation for Prevention and Treatment of Vit. D Deficiency in Infants

Expired formula:

New California Law

Canadian guidelines

Circumcision:

The Circumcision Decision References:

1. The American Pediatric Society http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;103/3/686
2. Øster J. Further fate of the foreskin: incidence of preputial adhesions, phimosis, and smegma among Danish schoolboys. Arch Dis Child 1968;43:200-3.
3. http://pednephrology.stanford.edu/secure/documents/6UTIAAPPracticeParameterUTI.pdf
4. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201109/more-circumcision-myths-you-may-believe-hygiene-and-stds
5. http://www.boystoo.com/history/statistics.htm
6. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/419?task=view
7. http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/CancerFactsFigures/cancer-facts-figures-2011
8. http://www.examiner.com/family-health-in-washington-dc/new-study-estimates-neonatal-circumcision-death-rate-higher-than-suffocation-and-auto-accidents and http://www.mensstudies.com/content/b64n267w47m333x0/?p=488e687276f346699601a0275fc5827b&pi=2
9. External Genital Human Papillomavirus Prevalence and Associated Factors Among Heterosexual Men on 5 Continents J Infect Dis. (2011) 203(1): 58-65 doi:10.1093/infdis/jiq015
10. http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/letters/1996-02_ACS/
11. http://www.noharmm.org/home.htm
12. http://www.circumcision.org/impact.htm
13. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Volume 278 No. 24, pages 2157-2162, December 24/31, 1997. http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/lander/#n7
14. Neonatal Cortisol Response to Circumcision with Anesthesia CLIN PEDIATR August 1986 vol. 25 no. 8 412-415 http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/25/8/412.abstract
15. http://www.medicines.org.uk/EMC/pdfviewer.aspx?isAttachment=true&documentid=17430
16. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html
17. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6034a4.htm
18. http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/

Resources on circumcision:

http://www.thewholenetwork.org/

http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/pregnancy-childbirth/whether-or-not-circumcise

http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/circumcision

Circumcision site care

Intact care

Education Options:

Calgary Board of Education

Calgary Catholic School District

Conseil scolaire catholique et froncophone du Sud de l’Alberta

Conseil scolaire du Sud de l’Alberta

Calgary Waldorf School

River Valley School (Montessori)

Reggio Emilia inspired

Homeschooling:

http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/ab/

http://education.alberta.ca/parents/choice/homeeducation.aspx

http://homeedmag.com/

Cloth Diapers

Environment Canada: “The Great Diaper Debate.”

The Diaper Pin

Hiking With Kids

www.backpackng.net

Sometimes Solo Parenting

http://pinterest.com/

Childbirth Education:

http://www.birthingtheeasyway.com/

http://www.inamay.com/

www.waterbirth.org

http://www.lamaze.org/

http://www.bradleybirth.com/

http://www.birthingfromwithin.com/

http://www.hypnobirthing.com/

http://www.healthybirthchoices.com/

The Amazing Placenta

References:

Beard, J., et. al. ( 2005). Maternal iron deficiency anemia affects postpartum emotions and cognition. The Journal of Nutrition, 134: 267-272.

Blank, MS., Friesen, HG. (1980). Effects of placentophagy on serum prolactin and progesterone concentrations in rats after parturition or superovulation. Reprod Fertil, 60(20): 273-278.

Bodnar, L., et. al. (2005). Have we forgotten the significance of postpartum iron deficiency? American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 193, 36-44.

Bozoky, I., & Corwin, E. (2002). Fatigue as a predictor of postpartum depression. JOGNN Clinical Studies, 31(4); 436-443.

Chrousos, G. et al. (1995).  Baby blues - postpartum depression attributed to low levels of corticotropin releasing hormone after placenta is gone; Discover; Dec 1995.

Corwin, E., Brownstead, J., Barton, N., Heckard, S., & Morin, K. (2005). The impact of fatigue on the development of ppd. JOGNN Clinical Research; 577-586.

DiPirro, J., & Kristal, M. (2004). Placenta for pain relief: Placenta ingestion by rats enhance y- and n-opioid antinociception, but suppresses A-opioid antinociception. Elsevier B. V., 1014, 22-33.

Hendrick, V., Altshuler, L., & Suri, R. (1998). Hormonal changes in the postpartum and implications for ppd. The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 39(2), 93-101.

Kristal, M. (1980). Placentophagia: A behavioural enigma. Neurosci. Biobehav, Rev. 4(2) 141-150.

Kristal, M. (1991). Enhancement of opioid-mediated analgesia: A solution to the enigma of placentophagia. Neurosci Biobehav, Rev 15(3); 425-435.

Kristal, M. (2008) Participation of placental opioid-enhancing factor in opioid-modulated events at parturition. Neurosci Biobehav; 1-9.

McCoy, B., Bleiler, R., Ohlson, M. (1961). Iron content of intact placenta and cords. The Amercian Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 9; 613-615.

Shapiro, J., & Wingeier, K. http://placentalove.blogspot.com

Soykova-Pachnerova, E., et. al. (1954). Placenta as a lactogogon. Gynaecologia, 138(6):617-627.

Verdon, F., et. al. (2003). Iron supplementation for unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women: Double blind randomised placebo controlled trial. BMJ: 1-7.

(2010). http://www.placentanetwork.com/remedies/Placenta-Encapsulation.asp