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    Archive for September, 2008

    Death in Birth

    Sunday, September 21st, 2008

    This week’s Time magazine reports on the frighteningly high maternal mortality rates in some parts of the world. Death in Birth describes a range of factors that contribute to women’s deaths during childbirth, including lack of access to midwives, poor health care delivery in general, and, very important, but least emphasized in this article, hygeine and nutrition. Access to [...]

    Posted in Birth Stories, Birth and the Media, Birth in Different Cultures, birth advocacy | 1 Comment »

    Trust the breast

    Saturday, September 13th, 2008

    Recent news from China about tainted infant formula is bleak. Investigators from six government agencies there are sifting through the milk powder factory evidence linked to one baby’s death and at least 50 very sick babies. The culprit appears to be melamine, the industrial additive that killed so many of our dogs and cats last [...]

    Posted in Breastfeeding, Uncategorized, breastfeeding and media | 1 Comment »

    A big, sad number

    Friday, September 12th, 2008

    OK. Today’s thought isn’t about normal birth and confident women. The folks at BBC News have caught my attention with some good news and some bad. First the good: There’s been a 28% drop in the rate of deaths among children under age five around the world since 1990. The bad news: A huge split [...]

    Posted in Breastfeeding, Uncategorized | No Comments »

    Women who hold up the sky

    Thursday, September 11th, 2008

    Like Judy, it’s been a busy summer with a lot of traveling for me and my husband, and I feel like finally I can exhale into autumn.
    We spent all of July back in our old stomping grounds of Minnesota, and one afternoon I had tea with a bunch of women I used to gather with [...]

    Posted in Confident Birth, birth advocacy, postpartum issues, postpartum mood disorders, pregnancy | No Comments »