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 [...]

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 [...]

NY Times writer Sandeep Jauhar’s recent piece in the New York Times is chocked with some great observations. He’s a cardiologist, but his wisdom is sorely needed in the hospital birth setting.
Perhaps most telling is this: “…diagnostic intuition is becoming rare in the current era of technological medicine.” The electronic fetal monitor that gets unquestioningly [...]

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 [...]