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Author: Team CiC

Advocacy
28th Aug '20
What Are Steroids & How Anabolic Steroids Vs CorticoSteroids Differ ?

What Are Steroids & How Anabolic Steroids Vs CorticoSteroids Differ ?

People often relate Anabolic Steroids and Corticosteroids because they both contain the word Steroid in them but they do not relate to each other at all. Corticosteroids such as prednisone…

Birth Center Home Birth Midwifery Pregnancy
3rd Nov '16

What Do You Think Is Most Important For Your Pregnancy Care?

Help us tell the story of what maternity care is really like for women across New York State! Share your experience by taking our online survey about childbirth care experiences,…

Uncategorized
6th Jun '16

CiC Awarded $204K Childbirth Education Grant by W.K. Kellogg Foundation

We are excited to announce that Choices in Childbirth has been awarded a grant in the amount of $204,000 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to provide childbirth education to expecting,…

Uncategorized
8th May '16

This Mother’s Day, I’m Honoring Choices

This Mother’s Day, I’m grateful to Choices in Childbirth, an organization that helped guide me to where I am today and one that I know firsthand never stops fighting to…

Childbirth Choices Midwifery
24th Feb '16

Ask the Midwife: Can a midwife administer pain medications during labor?

Can a midwife administer pain medications during labor? Midwives who attend births in hospitals are able to order pain medication for clients in labor. What types of pain relief are…

Advocacy Midwifery Postpartum Health Pregnancy Reproductive Rights Sexuality
23rd Feb '16

Pelvic Floor Therapy: An Interview with a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist

Why don’t we hear more about the pelvic floor during pregnancy and birth? This is a great question that I hear primarily from two groups of women: my peers, physical…

Childbirth Midwifery Nutrition Pregnancy Sexuality
16th Feb '16

Ask the Midwife: How can I avoid an episiotomy during birth?

“How can I avoid an episiotomy during birth?” Today an episiotomy is no longer a routine procedure – thank goodness – but is performed for the cause. Some reasons include…

Childbirth Nutrition Parenting Postpartum Health Pregnancy
16th Feb '16

TOP 10 THINGS I WISHED I HAD REALLY KNOWN!

This blog post comes from Ilham Zoughi, Founder and CEO of Duette Foodshed, and mom of two little ones. She recently participated as a panelist for our February 11 All…

Advocacy Breastfeeding Childbirth Choices Midwifery Nutrition Parenting
13th Jan '16

Ask the Midwife: What kinds of preparations can I take for breastfeeding while I’m still pregnant?

“What kinds of preparations can I take for breastfeeding while I’m still pregnant?” Congratulations on your plan to breastfeed your child! This will probably be one of your most special…

Advocacy Birth Center Choices Midwifery Policy Postpartum Health Pregnancy
11th Dec '15

Birth centers can give women a new choice

Michele Giordano and Nan Strauss wrote an op-ed in today’s amNY about the push to increase the number of birth centers in New York. “Birth centers have not been able…

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