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    Archive for September, 2006

    Searching the research: I didn’t know that!

    Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

    If you ever want to hang around with some folks who believe in normal birth and the need to turn the birth-American-style boat around, get thee to a Lamaze conference, held each autumn in some terrific places around the country (next year in Phoenix.) Once again, I carried home with me residual feelings of alarm [...]

    Posted in Birth and the Media, Birth in Different Cultures, Breastfeeding, Physiology of Normal Birth | 3 Comments »

    Making a Difference

    Sunday, September 17th, 2006

    You haven’t heard from Charlotte or me for a while. We were busy at the Lamaze International conference in Boston last week, and busy “catching up” this week. We signed books for childbirth educators and young mothers and expectant grandmothers who told us over and over again what a difference the book has made for them. They [...]

    Posted in Confident Birth | No Comments »

    The cost of cesarean

    Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

    Well it’s about time. Today’s (9-5-06) New York Times article, “Voluntary C-Sections Result in More Baby Death” (buried in the science section but present, nonetheless) finally gets around to some of the realities of voluntary C-sections. Even though the numbers the research is based on (more than 5 million births are part of this study) [...]

    Posted in Cesarean Birth, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

    Media Magic

    Monday, September 4th, 2006

    Julie Deardorff at the Chicago Tribune read our book, The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence, a few weeks ago. In her health column yesterday, Drug-free birth isn’t heroism, it’s humanism, she writes about how it changed her thinking about birth and pain and drugs. 
    Julie, like many young women having babies, is strong and healthy [...]

    Posted in Birth Stories, Birth and the Media, Home Birth, Physiology of Normal Birth, Role of Pain | No Comments »