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 [...]

I read about Susan Clarke, a young midwifery student in England, winning an award for her work in championing safe, natural birth for mothers, and I have a couple of responses. First, hurrah for Sarah, who obviously gets it and has had to stand her ground in an arena where the business of birth has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am in Rome this week with my husband and tonight, after too many fancy meals, we headed for a local trattoria for pizza. The place was hopping! It is Saturday night in Rome and everyone seems to be eating out.
In the midst of the doom and gloom of economic news and the way things [...]