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Healthy Baby, Healthy Birth: Why You Are Not Safer When Doctors Rush Your Pregnancy

Time is a frequently unnamed and unacknowledged medical complication plaguing most births currently taking place in hospitals and even birth centers. Considering the fast-paced nature of modern culture, perhaps it follows that the issue of time is having a never-before-seen, and increasingly disastrous effect, on pregnancy, birth and postpartum recovery.

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Easing the Misery of Thrush and Yeast

Mothers & babies sometimes struggle with yeast or thrush infections after birth.  While yeast is not usually a ‘serious’ problem, it can cause a very serious level of discomfort and pain for mothers and babies both. The infant’s digestion may be disrupted over the long term, and if they are being breastfed, mama’s commitment to breastfeed may also erode due to the misery is causes.

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