August 14, 2008
Brewer Pregnancy Diet Friendly Professionals
Joy over at Mindspring has put together a professional page of Doulas, Midwives, and Doctors who are Brewer Pregnancy diet promoters.
Go Here to find a great health care provider!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:35 AM
April 13, 2008
Herbal Diuretics: The New Threat to Healthy Pregnancies
Herbal Diuretics: The New Threat to Healthy Pregnancies
Eat Authentic Food! It is the key to making a healthy baby!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 8:15 PM
March 29, 2008
Freebirth: A Message to Obstetricians from Jenny Hatch, "Physician Heal THYSELF!!"
This video is hosted on My Share Page at One True Media
In the past few months four obstetrics societies have made public statements about Unassisted Childbirth.
The Canadian Doctors (SOGC):
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC)
The Australian and New Zealand Doctors:
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The Royal College (RCOG) in the UK:
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
And in a recent article in the Denver Westword Newspaper (I was interviewed for this story)
A Spokesperson for ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) claimed freebirth was "dangerous".
Childbirth goes solo.
By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: May 10, 2007
"According to the guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the organization "strongly opposes" any birth not performed inside a hospital. A spokesman for the ACOG has a one-word assessment of freebirth: "dangerous."
I have just one message for these doctors, and it is this:
"The moral of the proverb is counsel to prove your trustworthiness with your own affairs before attempting to tell others what they should do."
Break out of the Matrix!
When the various obstetrics societies PROVE that they have the will to reform themselves internally by setting up standards of care that are more about the mother and the baby than they are about the doctor and staff at the hospital, then I will feel more open about listening to any edicts they have about my lifestyle.
Hey Doctors: why don't you set some goals....
1. No inductions before 41 weeks
2. 10% C-section rate
3. No elective C-sections
4. Full acceptance of Lay and Nurse Midwifery both in the home and at the hospital
5. A Complete and total acceptance of VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Cesarean)
6. A willingness to embrace proper prenatal nutrition as the foundation for a healthy pregnancy as outlined by the Brewer Pregnancy Diet
When society stops locking up our midwives for bogus reasons, embrace and promote natural mothering as the IDEAL for a new baby (Natural Childbirth, Attachment Parenting, and Long Term Ecological Breastfeeding), then I will believe you have found your soul as doctors.
Until then? Well, I am going to continue promoting freebirth and encouraging families to break away from your way of giving birth, because frankly, the way you do it stinks.
Lamaze International has a white paper on Elective cesarean Vs. Vaginal Birth (PDF)
American College of Nurse Midwives:
RISKS OF CESAREAN DELIVERY ARE UNDERREPORTED,
BENEFITS OVERSTATED
Media Briefing Highlights Concerns In Advance of NIH Conference
QUOTE:
"Only women themselves can tell us if they are actually demanding cesarean section surgery. With what we are learning from Childbirth Connection today, we now know that women VERY rarely schedule first cesareans by choice without a medical reason," says Susan Hodges, president of Citizens for Midwifery. "Only women can tell us what kind of informed consent process was provided to them. Citizens for Midwifery believes that women are not being given adequate and unbiased information about all the risks and benefits of cesarean sections. Research is needed to understand who and what are now influencing decisions to perform major abdominal surgery 'for no medical reason' despite substantial evidence that all cesareans increase harmful risks for mothers and babies."
Free yourself from the Matrix~!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 2:35 PM
January 18, 2008
The Brewer Pregnancy Diet: A web site for parents!
The Brewer Pregnancy Diet Web Site!
Joy Jones has put together an excellent site to teach families how to use the Brewer Diet Properly. Please, if you do nothing else during your pregnancy, learn this diet, put it into practice, and then stand back and watch your body do the amazing work of building your healthy child!
Click on the image to learn more about Joy M. Jones RN
It was during my three years in New York that I met Tom and Gail Brewer. Janice was a friend of Gail's, and I believe that they were both active in the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York (CEAMNY). In any case, Tom and Gail were invited to present a weekend-long workshop about the Brewer Diet, sponsored by the CEAMNY, and I decided to attend.
I don't remember how it was that Tom and I started talking about the design for a poster of how his diet works in preventing problems in pregnancy, but I do remember how impressed I was with the validity of the science behind the simplicity of his diet plan. During the process of designing the poster*, and later that of writing a pamphlet for use as a simple handout, I came to understand the diet better, and develop a kind of friendship with the man. In later years, I appreciated his readiness to answer my questions, and how available he was by phone. Occasionally, I would receive letters from him in the mail--xeroxed copies of whatever pregnancy and nutrition development was in the news, and happened to be on his mind at the time. In the margins, he would write copious notes all about studies that contradicted whatever was written in the article. I felt for him in his frustration that a solution as simple as eating could be so hard to accept, for many of his peers and others in the health field.
Since then, I've had two babies of my own and have done many other things in the field of pregnancy and childbirth. But throughout it all, I've continued to reach out to pregnant women with the Brewer Diet, and have felt the gratification of seeing them turn their complications around with something as simple as eating.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:47 AM