Giving Birth With Confidence

My email this week brought a beautiful, uplifting, happy treat.  Lorri Walker, founder and director of South Coast Midwifery, forwarded a ” modern account of today’s natural childbirth.”  Told by 10 mothers, the short film chronicles their journeys to challenge the conventional hospital birth model to give birth in their own way. Check out Natural Born Babies: 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 [...]

A doula friend of mine was telling me recently about the seemingly arbitrary variation she sees across the different hospitals where she attends births. “In one hospital they always turn the epidural off when the woman is ready to push, and in another hospital just a few miles away we had to fight to get [...]

Wall Street Journal writer Keith Winstein announced the New England Journal of Medicine findings that early C-sections carry some mighty risks to the newborn, “even when the baby has technically reached full term” according to a large, new study. What has grown into a widely popular practice (with obstetricians claiming that many mothers request surgical [...]

Here’s a blog from Dublin that is worth a read. Likely many of us can relate to this mother’s tale of being a part of a drama that need not have played out the way it did. Even though her birth was of the “all’s well that ends well” variety, it would not be filed [...]