Giving Birth With Confidence

Another study is soon to be published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that dispels, like Listening to Mothers II did, the myth that lots of women are choosing cesareans. MedWire news reports on the upcoming publication, Most women disagree with cesarean delivery upon request.
Three hundred and eighty three women  living in the Bronx, NY [...]

I get so discouraged thinking about the rising cesarean rate, that I try on a regular basis to stick my head in the sand. At the moment, the “cesarean spin” is impossible to ignore. In 2006 (latest statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics  ), 31.1% of US births were cesareans, a 50% increase in [...]

British children’s author Sean Taylor said how honored he was to be named the Gold Medal Winner of the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize for his book When a Monster is Born. But, his letter to them stated that he would not be accepting their prize money because of questions surrounding Nestlé’s marketing of breast-milk substitutes.
He [...]

Ricki Lake’s documentary, The Business of Being Born, is finally finding its way into theatres. It is showing in New York City this week, and is set to be shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle in the next few weeks.
Allison Walsh, president of Lamaze International interveiwed Ricki earlier this week. It’s an amazing discussion [...]

It was great to open the New York Times this morning to see that Ricki Lake’s movie “The Business of Being Born” is opening in Manhattan theaters. Reviewer Stephen Holden gets a few things wrong: Home birth is not “practiced widely in Europe and Japan.”
Oh that this were so. The Netherlands is the only industrialized [...]