Giving Birth With Confidence

Newsweek magazine’s Feb. 20, 2008 issue contains yet another succinct piece on choices that lie before today’s pregnant woman, the vast sea of information she has to sort through in making decisions about how to have her baby, where, and with who’s help, alongside all the other (sometimes frightening, sometimes inaccurate) stuff found online and [...]

Australian scientist Dr. Mark Cregan is known for having discovered that human breast milk contains stem cells, a potentially rich mine to harvest for treatment of Parkinson’s, diabetes, and many other diseases. But wait, there’s more. His research is pointing to revelations about the potency of breast milk, not only that it meets all of [...]

The decision to give birth at home is not influenced by fashion, by what’s trendy, or the latest cause celebre, contrary to what the

The inside of my kitchen cupboard is where I stick clippings that I’ll get around to doing something with someday. Alas, I just went to hang one up for this summer’s gardening plans and in the jumble of it all ran across a little October piece from the Times – “Purposely Breaking Water Does Not [...]

While that recent American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology study tells us that not as many women are asking for surgical birth as we were hearing, the Swedes are telling us in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that those who are requesting C-sections for no clinical reason are doing so out of fear. [...]