Healthy Moms Having Healthy Babies – the Challenge in 2011

Outlining DTP’s goals in 2011: Helping women be healthy during the childbearing period, and adding to the effort to assure Safe Motherhood around the globe.

Safe Pregnancy, Safe Labor, Safe Motherhood

The challenges to safe motherhood vary depending where in the world you live. In some areas the challenge may be to get adequate nutrition or clean water; in other areas, it may be to prevent infection; and in still other locations it may be trying to avoid pregnancy before your body is ready or getting [...]

Birth and Human Survival

Ever wonder if humanity will become extinct sooner rather than later? Animal Planet program on sea turtles…hatchlings crawl across the sand to the ocean and the commentator remarks that only one in a hundred will survive to adulthood. Those who escape the pelican beaks or salt water crocodiles waiting for them on the sand may [...]

Pregnancy Pathway, Birth – Labor

The first stage of labor, dilation, and why it is painful and important.

Pregnancy Pathway, Pregnancy – Behavior, part 1: Exercise

Summary of the reasons why exercise is critical to good pregnancy outcome.

Pregnancy – 50% planned; 50% unplanned

So…are you planning to become pregnant? For the last decade, pregnancy has been in a 50/50 situation. That is, about half the pregnancies occurring in the U.S. are planned. The rest? Well, not necessarily unwelcome, but definitely unplanned. Will this change in the current recession (or as a friend said today, Let us just call [...]