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The benefits of delayed cord clamping: New evidence
Hold on a minute (or three)! Something about the cord clamping debate has troubled me for quite some time now. Long after early cord clamping (ECC) was shown to be of no benefit to either mother or...
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Readers respond: Cord clamping around the U.S.
“Who even does early cord clamping anymore?” This question was raised recently by a young doctor at the family medicine residency program where I teach. She and her residency colleagues had been taught...
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Cesareans and chronic childhood disease: Time for a public discussion
From the Ishinhō, Japanese medical text, 1860 In an analysis published in the most recent edition of The BMJ, Drs. Jan Blustein and Jianming Liu examine the evidence that cesarean delivery is...
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That’s me on the radio…
Adriana Lozada I just had the pleasure of discussing the advantages of delayed cord clamping with the wonderful Adriana Lozada over at birthful.com. Here’s the link:...
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Once upon a time in cord clamping…
Modern science at work… “Another thing very injurious to the child, is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon; which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed...
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Things kids say: Disney-trashing edition
Bossy? Moi? Overheard: A young girl talking to her mother at the V. Sattui winery picnic grounds in Napa, California (one valley over from where I live), last weekend… “They call it the happiest place...
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A great Father’s Day column…by my Mom.
Margaret “Peg” Sloan My mother, Peg Sloan, was a writer and editor for our hometown Kankakee (Illinois) Daily Journal from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. She published her first column in 1977, on...
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Mode of delivery and childhood illness: A randomized trial in 2004.
One of the biggest difficulties in proving a causal link between cesarean birth and chronic health problems in childhood is the type of research studies that can practically and ethically be done...
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A good day to be in Washington!
Not much repenting going on… We’re in Washington D.C. for my niece’s wedding on Saturday. When we heard the Supreme Court’s pro-gay marriage ruling this morning we headed over to the Court building...
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What “The Hardy Boys” taught me about childhood obesity
Frank, Joe and Chet (with big clue!) 1927 When my son John was in third grade he briefly glommed on to my collection of old Hardy Boys story books. We’d read them together at bedtime as I tried to...
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