Giving Birth With Confidence

News of the big scare over melamine found in Chinese infant formula has died down, although “tiny traces” were later reported to be found in infant formula manufactured here in the U.S. More than300,000 babies in China sustained damage to their kidneys, at least four babies died. We’ve no such reports of similarly linked problems [...]

Here’s a blog from Dublin that is worth a read. Likely many of us can relate to this mother’s tale of being a part of a drama that need not have played out the way it did. Even though her birth was of the “all’s well that ends well” variety, it would not be filed [...]

All of us know someone with asthma.  The airways in the lungs spasm and swell, the oxygen supply gets restricted — it’s miserable stuff. The incidence of asthma has steadily risen here in the US over the past couple of decades, right along with the rate of surgical birth. Times writer Tara Parker-Pope writes about [...]

I am in Rome this week with my husband and tonight, after too many fancy meals, we headed for a local trattoria for pizza. The place was hopping! It is Saturday night in Rome and everyone seems to be eating out.
In the midst of the doom and gloom of economic news and the way things [...]

The little college in Massachusetts where my husband did his first teaching stint back in the day had the strangest memorial sitting in a quiet part of the campus, a small rock with a plaque labeling it as a “monument to gravity,” with a little inscription detailing the wonders of this force that keeps us [...]