Giving Birth With Confidence

Cross-posted from the Science & Sensibility Blog.
Each year, Lamaze International presents awards to the best and brightest in childbirth education and advocacy at its annual conference. We are thrilled to announce that for the first time, bloggers will be considered for the annual Lamaze Media Award. Increasingly, bloggers are shaping the conversation about birth, highlighting [...]

A private philanthropic organization in California that studies brain science sets up a little alarm for pregnant folks who load their baby’s ultrasound picture onto their iPhone to zip around to friends and family. The DANA Foundation alerts us to new research cautioning the rampant use of what so many folks must assume is a [...]

After reading Amy’s April 5 blog on Vitamin D testing, I read a recent piece in the Times Science section and had the gnawing question: Is there a profit-driven reason behind yet another scare about what pregnant women’s bodies need to be tested for now?
Debate is going on among doctors groups on the feasibility and [...]

This week, media outlets shared the news of a new Cochrane review that concludes upright positions are beneficial because they shorten labor by about one hour. The birth blogs have been buzzing about this, and the consensus is that we should feel delighted and vindicated to have the scientific evidence to prove what women and [...]

I never got the full details of why my mother spent two weeks on her back in the hospital after she birthed me, her third baby. I do know that 29 years later I was encouraged to stay on my back during the marathon labor of my first birth in a then-state-of-the-art California in-hospital birth [...]