Giving Birth With Confidence

I’ve been away traveling, slow to get back to my computer. My husband and I have just moved into an old bungalow that we’re slowly bringing around, and we welcomed our first set of friends in for a couple of overnights (during the hottest week of the year.) This is a friend who has been [...]

Dr. Darshak Sanghavi author of The Mother Lode of Pain, the cover story of the Boston Globe Magazine on July 23, skims the surface of historical and empirical research and presents us with the most biased and inaccurate story I have read in many years.
At the center of the story is Dr. Sanghvi’s belief that [...]

Earlier this month (Birth Stories: Creating a Spell) I shared my experience spending an afternoon with authors Niall Williams and Christine Breen and my deep conviction, after that afternoon, that birth will change when women hear stories of birth that are powerfully told, full of the wonder and majesty, and infused with an understanding of women’s incredible [...]

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article, New Practices Reduce Childbirth Risks, last week (July 12, 2006, subscription required). The “new” practice highlighted was avoiding the use of labor-inducing drugs for preterm deliveries. The underlying concern is the increase in the number of truly premature babies that are being born after early, often routine induction of [...]

I just got back from a week away visiting my family in Connecticut and New York.  While we were there, my daughter Lucy celebrated her 2nd birthday (on the 4th of July!). In my birth story (scroll to “Your Birth Story, Lucina”) I recalled watching the fireworks off the Connecticut shore just 2 days before my [...]