Giving Birth With Confidence

A friend of ours just moved to Chicago to work at A Women’s Place Birth and Health Resources, a certified nurse midwife group that offers women – among other things — options on where to have their babies. After a long, hard couple of years working in a Houston hospital and weary of how she [...]

L.A. Times writer Mary Engel made my day with the good news that Californians are getting it right on at least one important health issue. Take this stat: 86% of the women who gave birth in California in 2006 nursed their newborns in the hospital. Of that, 43% fed their babies breast milk only – [...]

I may not have an Ani DiFranco CD in my collection, and being that I am of a certain age I don’t have her loaded onto my non-existent Ipod. But I know her music, and she doesn’t mess around when it comes to message. You pretty much know where she stands on things by the [...]

I’ve just come home from The Netherlands where I had the treat of a few hours with my dear co-author. Our paths crossed when we attended a celebration together at the Rotterdam school for midwives – their 125th anniversary. There were some pre-World War II graduates in the audience sitting alongside some very recent graduates. [...]

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Brits have once again enlightened us — this time as to why our breast-fed children are such smarty-pants. (Those of us who’ve breastfed our young ones just knew we were doing something important.) The National Academy of Sciences reports that an itty bitty gene needs to be present in the [...]