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How Big is Too Big?
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In Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way, author Susan McCutcheon explains several reasons why pregnant women are often suggested inductions or cesarean sections by their birth teams, one such reason being the baby's perceived size in ultrasound. She points out that a baby being truly too big for the mother to birth naturally ocurrs in about 1/2500 pregnancies. She encourages doctors to consider what Williams Obstetrics wrote: there are "no current methods to assess fetal size accurately" (2018, pg.262), and how a couple can respond to being told that their doctor wishes to induce because they do not want baby to get 'too big.' Other scenarios that can prompt suggestions to schedule an induction or cesarean are 'irregular' labor, 'prolonged' labor, Cephalopelvic disproportion ('pelvis too small'), and 'fetal distress' detected by monitor. McCutcheon goes on to give more reading suggestions and stories of couples' experienc
Food Log evaluation
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Below I give suggestions for the following first food log of a student. What would you add to the suggestions? My comments: "It's great to get a baseline established, and you've got a good starting point. A few suggestions: let's add a protein to each snack, fortify what we can, and forget about what looks like a traditional 'lunch' or 'dinner--think in terms of nutrients in. We're aiming for 85-100 grams of protein a day, with as many 100 gram days as we can. "Try some of these: Trailmix and any kind of nut (add to your yogurt too) cheese sticks, any kind of cheese beef jerky whole grain toast and cream cheese + jam/ honey hardboiled eggs or scrambled egg bites granola made with lots of seeds and nuts, dried fruit (ask for my recipe) rotisserie chicken, deboned and cut into pieces fish sticks Think more about getting enough of the nutrients than if it feels/ looks like a true 'breakfast' or 'midnight snack.'
Infancy: The benefits of breastfeeding, even for only a few days
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