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By DawningLife Midwifery March 06, 2008
Low risk families discouraged from private cord blood banking in UK. From The Guardian’s Sarah Hall, health correspondent - June 14, 2006 Pregnant women were warned last night not to use companies that offer to store stem cells from their babies’ umbilical cords as the companies’ claims of providing the ultimate insurance against future disease are “extremely speculative”. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said there was “insufficient evidence” to recommend the practice for families at low risk of passing on blood diseases such as leukemia or genetic disorders. Those who believed they were obtaining “the elixir of life” for their child should realize that claims that stem cells can produce future cures for Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and ovarian cancer are “in the realm of speculation”. “The ability to use it for diabetes or Parkinson’s is like insuring against aircraft crashes,” said Peter Braude, chairman of the college’s scientific advisory committee. The warning came as the college issued fresh guidelines for obstetricians and midwives concerned about how to deal with an escalating interest in the storage of umbilical cord stem cells. The demand for private cord blood banks - such as the UK Cord Blood Bank, Smart Cells and Future Health - has grown in the past year with about 11,000 British couples reported to have paid around £1,500 to store the blood for 20 years. The footballer Thierry Henry and the dancer Darcey Bussell are among the celebrities who have paid for the service. But doctors said yesterday that collecting cord blood could endanger the lives of mother and baby. Susan Bewley, chairwoman of the college’s ethics committee and a consultant obstetrician at Guys and St Thomas’, said extracting blood while the placenta was still in the womb could increase the risk of hemorrhage, while clamping the cord too early - to increase the amount of blood available - could harm the child. “Being born is inherently quite dangerous,” she said. “We meddle and fiddle with that at our peril.” The college said each hospital trust needed to develop a policy on how to deal with cord blood storage requests. Blood should only be extracted once the placenta was out of the womb and collection should not be by an obstetrician or midwife who needed to be focused on the mother and child. The college said collecting stem cells for families at risk of genetic disorders, or from women donating altruistically, was acceptable but that this should be done through the NHS. About 200 families have had stem cells extracted for this purpose of whom 13 have had to draw on them. The college refrained from suggesting GPs and antenatal clinics should not display promotional literature, which describes the practice as “like freezing a spare immune system”. But Dr Bewley said: “Some of the commercial literature almost suggests it’s offering the gift of life or elixir of life. Our view is that if there is a potential elixir of life it is needed for the public good.” http://thecordblood.net/?p=25 ...read more
By DawningLife Midwifery February 10, 2008
PushNews from The Big Push for Midwives Campaign CONTACT: Steff Hedenkamp, (816) 506-4630, RedQuill@kc.rr.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 7, 2008 ACOG: Out of Touch with Needs of Childbearing Families Trade Union claims out-of-hospital birth is “trendy;” tries to play the “bad mother” card (February 7, 2008) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a trade union representing the financial and professional interests of obstetricians, has issued the latest in a series of statements condemning families who choose home birth and calling on policy makers to deny them access to Certified Professional Midwives. CPMs are trained as experts in out-of-hospital delivery and as specialists in risk assessment and preventative care. “It will certainly come as news to the Amish and other groups in this country who have long chosen home birth that they’re simply being ‘trendy’ or ‘fashionable,’” said Katie Prown, PhD, Campaign Manager of The Big Push for Midwives 2008. “The fact is, families deliver their babies at home for a variety of very valid reasons, either because they’re exercising their religious freedom, following their cultural traditions or because of financial need. These families deserve access to safe, quality and affordable maternity care, just like everyone else.” Besides referring to home birth as a fashionable “trend” and a “cause célèbre” that families choose out of ignorance, ACOG’s latest statement adds insult to injury by claiming that women delivering outside of the hospital are bad mothers who value the childbirth “experience” over the safety of their babies. “ACOG has it backwards,” said Steff Hedenkamp, Communications Coordinator of The Big Push and the mother of two children born at home. “I delivered my babies with a trained, skilled professional midwife because I wanted the safest out-of-hospital care possible. If every state were to follow ACOG’s recommendations and outlaw CPMs, families who choose home birth will be left with no care providers at all. I think we can all agree that this is an irresponsible policy that puts mothers and babies at risk.” The Big Push for Midwives calls on ACOG to abandon these outdated policies and work with CPMs to reduce the cesarean rate and to take meaningful steps towards reducing racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes in all regions of the United States. CPMs play a critical role in both cesarean prevention and in the reduction of low-birth weight and pre-term births, the two most preventable causes of neonatal mortality. Moreover, their training as specialists in out-of-hospital maternity care qualifies CPMs as essential first-responders during disasters in which hospitals become inaccessible or unsafe for laboring mothers. In addition, CPMs work to ensure that all babies born outside of the hospital undergo state-mandated newborn screenings and are provided with legal and secure birth certificates. Currently, Certified Nurse-Midwives, who work predominantly in hospital settings, are licensed and regulated in all 50 states, while Certified Professional Midwives, who work in out-of-hospital settings, are licensed and regulated in 24 states, with legislation pending in an additional 20 states. The Big Push for Midwives ...read more
By DawningLife Midwifery February 08, 2008
There are often times in many women’s lives when they need to dress nicely but don’t want to spend a lot of money. Whether a woman is shopping for clothes to wear to a new job, or for something to wear to a wedding, there are ways to find beautiful outfits to wear within anyone's budget, n... ...read more
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