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 [...]

The internet is abuzz about a new study out of the Netherlands comparing the outcomes of planned home birth with those of planned hospital births in low-risk women. With over half a million women involved in the study, it is the largest of its kind. Its findings provide the best evidence to date that perinatal [...]

Often, the closer I look at a study, the less confident I become about the results. I’ve learned that you can’t always trust a paper’s title or abstract, and media coverage of new studies can be woefully misleading, even when it is not carefully orchestrated by those with a vested interest (which it often is). [...]

Charlotte and I are delighted to welcome Amy Romano as a guest blogger. Amy has blogged with us before, and it is always a treat. Amy is the mother of two darling children, Lucy and Dexter, both born at home. For several years now she has worked with Lamaze International facilitating the work of the Lamaze Institute [...]

The recent New York magazine story, Extreme Birth, enraged me.  The very top of the front cover of the magazine entices readers to look inside with this, Plus: The High Priestess of Home Birth.  The tag-line to the piece is “the fearless–some say too fearless–leader of the home birth movement”. The tone is set. Andrew Goldman’s article is [...]