Blog & Updates on Vancouver Prenatal Classes
Weighing In on Pregnancy Weight Gain
How much weight should you gain when you’re pregnant?
While a cursory glance at the internet may appear to provide a consistent answer, a deeper search risks poking a hornet’s nest of dissonant opinions. There are many ways of thinking about this question. And they fly in wildly different directions.
Placenta Trivia
When you are pregnant, you not only grow a baby, you also grow a placenta!
Even though the placenta has been sometimes characterised as a waste-organ, an icky footnote, or unmentionable by-product of birth (the “after birth”), it is actually an important, unique, and fascinating organ.
The Turtle Trance
Although I had never seen a green sea turtle laying eggs, I have attended many human births. And the similarities struck me at every step of the way.
Ask Childbearing: Why would someone choose to give birth at home?
Why would someone choose to give birth at home? I understand that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth, but are there any specific benefits?
BABY GEAR: The Good, The Bad, and the Useless
The Top 10 most used, and most useless, baby gear items, according to our readers
Editorial: The High Caesarean Rate
The World Health Organization states that the Caesarean rate should ideally hover around 10%. Anything lower means parents and babies who might benefit from Caesarean births are not getting enough access, and anything higher means too many surgeries are being performed without any improvement in maternal or newborn outcomes.