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Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
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Baby Steps to Improving Maternity Care
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
The hope of improving our country’s Maternity Care is dependent upon the reconstruction of our healthcare system. Motivated in part to decrease the maternal and infant mortality rates, this reform would also save healthcare dollars.
Improving Maternal and Infant Mortality
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
What we eat is so very important to our physical and mental wellbeing. Add the fetus, who is dependent on the mother’s physical condition and habits, and you have a very serious challenge to teach women to eat the most balanced and healthiest meals every day.
WALKING…it does a body good
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
There is an overwhelming amount of health information spewing out of all the various forms of media in our everyday lives.
Empowering Women to Birth Naturally
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
Childbirth...it is the culmination of ten months of a baby’s growth in the womb. Labor is a normal, healthy, human process for a woman and her baby. Natural childbirth gives the mother control of her body in labor, optimum decision making during labor, and, so important, uninterrupted bonding with her child immediately after delivery.
Take the FIVE INGREDIENT Challenge
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
Whether counseling a newly pregnant mother about her diet or discussing food choices with a middle aged woman during her annual physical, nutrition teaching remains the building block to support the optimum health of the human body.
40 Weeks Pregnant and Waiting…
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
What happens when your “due date” has passed by and you have not delivered your baby? For many pregnant women, the “due date” comes and goes causing anxiety, frustration with the discomforts of pregnancy, and a daily juggle of work schedules and babysitters.
“SKIN TO SKIN” …A Baby’s Favorite Place
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
Mom gently pushes her baby into the hands of the practitioner who places the newborn “skin to skin” on the mother’s abdomen. That is, literally speaking, positioning the naked baby, cord still attached, “tummy to tummy” on the mother’s warm abdomen, then placing blankets over both of them.
Wareham Nurse Midwives
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
A Focus on Prevention and Health
Even though my passion is "Birthin' Babies" at Tobey Hospital, I do provide other services in Women's Health Care. Being an OB/GYN nurse practitioner, as well as a Certified Nurse Midwife,
Gestational Diabetes…How Can We Help?
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
There is a dramatic increase in the number of women who develop gestational diabetes in pregnancy. I have noticed this trend in the past five years in my practice. Gestational diabetes occurs in the second trimester of pregnancy when it becomes increasingly difficult for the body to break down the glucose needed to fuel the cells.
The Best of Both Worlds
Health & Wellness
By Louise Bastarache, CNM, NP, MS
Picture a laboring woman in a warm Jacuzzi tub, breathing rhythmically with her contractions, sipping on her favorite drink, music playing in the background and her attentive coach sitting by her side.
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