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On a lighter note, here’s a video that should tickle your funnybone.

A Giving Birth with Confidence post discusses a press release put out by the American Society of Anesthesiologists entitled “Most Healthy Women Would Benefit from Light Meal During [...]

As is usual, the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists hasn’t made its guidelines publically available. A Medscape article, however, states that the Bulletin affirms the [...]

Close on the heels of the previous study comes a Medscape report on a study of the effects of a  large-for-gestational-age (LGA) diagnosis, meaning the baby’s estimated weight is in the [...]

“Perceptions of fetal size influence interventions in pregnancy, BU study finds,” reads the EurekAlert article title. This is hardly breaking news, as every other study of suspected [...]

CNN reports on the Army’s new breastfeeding policy. The article also provides links to the Air Force and Navy policies.

Two-Minute Medicine summarizes a study finding that administering antibiotics during labor alters bacterial colonization in the infant’s gut  compared with babies of mothers not receiving [...]

The Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists has published updated VBAC guidelines based on studies published between 2003 and February 2015. The guidelines are more extensive and [...]

The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit organization promoting hospital safety standards, has published 2014 cesarean rates by hospital in low-risk 1st-time mothers (> 37 wk, one, head-down baby)—and [...]