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...time when the average prenatal visit with an obstetrician lasts six minutes, Guralnick's 1 1/2-hr. visit with the Suris feels like good value for the money. Doula fees vary greatly by geographic area. The range is approximately $300 to $1,000 for a labor doula, and postpartum specialists charge hourly rates of $15 to $35, though often with a 15-hr. minimum. As doula services are not yet covered by medical insurance, most doulas say their clientele tends to be affluent...
...role of a labor doula varies depending on the needs and desires of the parents. For some people, the support of a doula is more important after the actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work...
BABY BLUES Postpartum depression is no fun for Mom, but scientists say it's pretty bad for infants too. A new report shows that depressed mothers and their newborns both have high levels of the stress hormone cortisol and that an infant's cortisol level remains high for months--even after Mom's level returns to normal...
...time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned to his biological mother...
Cleaning up after themselves, as Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson did, seems like a quaint gesture of guilt next to a hasty return to the prom for a postpartum spin around the dance floor. There's not a flicker of humanity in these cases, and there are more of them being reported, if not more of them happening. No one keeps comprehensive statistics on abandoned babies, but in Los Angeles County last year, there were 10 newborns left to die; two summers ago, three were discarded in Southern California beach communities. In Monmouth County, N.J., where Drexler left her baby...