Giving Birth With Confidence

Nora, my seven year old granddaughter, is aghast at the attitude of one of her little classmates to having babies. “Nanie, I was telling my friends about Cate’s birth and she said ‘I guess we should listen cause we might HAVE to have babies someday’. I told her ‘HAVE to have a baby? I WANT [...]

The New York Times had a cute little boxed story the other day in the science section about research being done at the University of Chicago’s department of comparative human development. Researcher Jill Mateo has been studying squirrels and their distinct personalities. It’s in the squirrel’s best interest to know who is friendly and who [...]

The word on the streets is that Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow plans to give birth to her second baby underwater. She is said to have planned an underwater delivery when having daughter, Apple, but changed her mind at the last minute.
A friend quoted in Britain’s Daily Mirror said, “It’s something Gwyneth really wanted to do [...]

The January 23, 2006 issue of People Magazine has a story about Tia Carrere’s (of Wayne’s World fame) recent birth. The story is a perfect example of “media spin”. Two thirds of the page is a picture of Tia and her absolutely gorgeous baby. And then, the lead sentence, “Tia learned the hard way that [...]

The hospital practice of providing new mothers with formula gift bags, sometimes with the formula removed, is so widespread it’s hard to think of a place that doesn’t give them out. There is, of course, no such thing as “free” anything. The cost of “free” formula gift bags is shortened breastfeeding duration. We’re not sure [...]