Giving Birth With Confidence

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 [...]

The little college in Massachusetts where my husband did his first teaching stint back in the day had the strangest memorial sitting in a quiet part of the campus, a small rock with a plaque labeling it as a “monument to gravity,” with a little inscription detailing the wonders of this force that keeps us [...]

Like Judy, it’s been a busy summer with a lot of traveling for me and my husband, and I feel like finally I can exhale into autumn.
We spent all of July back in our old stomping grounds of Minnesota, and one afternoon I had tea with a bunch of women I used to gather with [...]

I shouldn’t have been, but I was. Taken aback by the news on the home page of AOL today. Pregorexia inspired by thin celebs. Well, I’m not sure it’s all inspired by thin celebs. I think health care providers are probably giving mixed messages here. “Eat well but don’t gain too much weight” sort of thing. [...]

Check out the brand new Lamaze baby: Lamaze: Building Confidence, Week by Week. This is the weekly pregnancy email we’ve been waiting for!
The weekly emails feature trustworthy information, practical tips, and inspirational stories to help guide women each step of the way through their pregnancies, some of them written by Charlotte and me, and excepted from [...]