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    Archive for June, 2007

    Out of the Dark: Transparency and Birth

    Saturday, June 30th, 2007

    For the first time in nearly two decades the federal government has released a list of hospitals where heart patients are most likely to die. It is probably not surprising that in a recent New York Times’ article, Report Rates Hospitals on Their Heart Treatment hospitals and physicians were quick to start complaining that [...]

    Posted in Birth and the Media, Cesarean Birth, Labor Induction | 4 Comments »

    Mothers dying

    Monday, June 25th, 2007

    There is startling news about the maternal deaths of two young women, Valerie Scythes and Melissa Farah, friends and teachers in the same school, who gave birth to healthy babies in the same hospital, weeks apart. Their deaths shocked the small community in which they lived, and shocked everyone I’m sure who read the story. How could this happen? In a world [...]

    Posted in Birth and the Media, Cesarean Birth, Labor Induction, Technology | 6 Comments »

    The Struggle to Give Birth Normally

    Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

    Real life hits us over the head and brings us down to earth too often when it comes to birth. Yesterday on a conference call about the Lamaze certification examination, Lila, our wonderful psychometrician, told us about her daughter’s struggle to let labor happen naturally, and have a normal birth. Lila gave birth to her [...]

    Posted in Birth Stories, Confident Birth, Labor Induction | 5 Comments »