Giving Birth With Confidence

Last night I received an email from an exhuberant father..announcing the birth of his daughter the day before. I am always excited at the birth of a baby, especially when it is accompanied by pictures (a gorgeous baby and an exhuberant Dad!). The trouble was I had no idea who the email was from.
I racked my [...]

The American Medical Association resolved this week, in support of the previous ACOG statement on home birth, that “the safest setting for labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period is in the hospital or in a birthing center within a hospital complex or a free-standing birthing center (that meet standards)”. The AMA takes the ACOG statement [...]

Check out the brand new Lamaze baby: Lamaze: Building Confidence, Week by Week. This is the weekly pregnancy email we’ve been waiting for!
The weekly emails feature trustworthy information, practical tips, and inspirational stories to help guide women each step of the way through their pregnancies, some of them written by Charlotte and me, and excepted from [...]

I just read Edwina Froehlich’s obituary, and she’s rightfully described as “a pioneer on several fronts of motherhood.”
She is best remembered as co-author of “The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding” and co-founder of the La Leche League. The league became a strong model of community-based support and education for mothers, bringing the notion of breast-feeding out [...]

My husband recently had a little reunion with college guys he’d played soccer with back in the early ‘70s. They hadn’t seen each other for a very long time, and it was one of those reality checks of thinning hair, expanding guts, and a deeper wisdom beyond what they thought they knew back in their [...]