by Gail Tully | Dec 30, 2009 | inducing labor, induction, March of Dimes, prematurity
Medscape interviews Dr. Fleishman, expert from the March of Dimes, on the prevention of prematurity. The March of Dimes has gotten my respect these last 7 years for their prematurity prevention campaign. In the beginning, I used to muse, what we midwives could teach...
by Gail Tully | May 24, 2007 | autism, inducing labor, induction of labor, Michel Odent, oxytocin, Pitocin, starting labor
Induction of labor is a phrase meaning that labor contractions are encouraged by external means. Drug induced labor can be brought on with Pitocin in an IV drip, prostaglandin gels or a pill, cytotec (misoprostol). Dr. Michel Odent (www.birthworks.org/primalhealth)...
