Giving Birth With Confidence

Today is the start of the official end of summer, and the weekend that, once again, celebrates birth…thanks to Karen Brody. Karen’s startlingly fabulous idea to celebrate women and birth on Labor Day with a play that tells women’s birth stories…well, it was a startlingly fabulous idea. BOLD (Birth on Labor Day) will be enacted [...]

When Charlotte and I set out to write our book our goal was to write something that offered an alternative to the best selling pregnancy and birth book ever…What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Our mantra through the long minutes, hours, days and months of writing, revising, and editing was “Women deserve something better”. Women deserve a book [...]

Oh Hollywood! My daughter sent me this little story that I know for certain I wouldn’t have run across on my own. Comedy actor Vince Vaughn has come up with a funny idea for a film — “Male Doula”. It makes me cringe to think of the spins that will come off of yet [...]

Health care, its cost and availability in our country, is on the tongue of every politician currently eyeing the Oval Office. The battle cry is “Health care reform!” and “preventive health care for all!” New York Times columnist David Leonhardt surprises us with the notion that “preventing illness may not be cheaper than treating illness,” [...]

Writer Caitlin Kelly in her recent Times piece laments the 34 interactions she had during her short hospital stay to treat the pneumonia that sent her there. You and I have been in the hospital corridor and bed to know that these forced encounters with everyone from the nursing aid to the janitor can disturb [...]