Giving Birth With Confidence

In July we shared that The Birth House by Ami McKay, #1 bestseller in Canada was soon to be published in the US. It has arrived!
I read The Birth House the first time eager for birth stories and for historical insight on midwives and homebirth. I read it the second time to savor the richness [...]

It was good to find out that Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland recently announced that VBAC’s are back in, dependent on their individual OB’s decision and willingness and a patient’s risk factors and desires. That’s a pretty wide open door of dependent-on’s, but it’s encouraging that the language of at least “maybe” is out there. [...]

Ricardo Jones is a obstetrician from Brazil. A few weeks ago he alerted the Coalition for the Improvement of Maternity Services that a new soap opera is running in Brazil, Paginas da Vita. The Brazilian soap operas last about 5 months and address specific issues. This one is all about the humanization of childbirth!  The [...]

Our December 11, 2005 blog shared Christine’s (our editor at Meadowbrook Press) reasons for choosing to have her baby at home…reasons very much influenced by her editing work with Charlotte and me. We thought you would be as thrilled as we were to read Christine’s birth story, and to welcome her little girl, Maria Rose [...]

Like a lot of folks around the country, I am so grateful that the heat blast is over. It’s the thing we Midwesterners dread about an otherwise lovely summer, the thing that some Texans live with a lot of the year and swear that they don’t whine about. I’m grateful that we had at least [...]