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    Archive for May, 2009

    Birth Bloggers: Enter to Win the Lamaze Media Award!

    Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

    Cross-posted from the Science & Sensibility Blog.
    Each year, Lamaze International presents awards to the best and brightest in childbirth education and advocacy at its annual conference. We are thrilled to announce that for the first time, bloggers will be considered for the annual Lamaze Media Award. Increasingly, bloggers are shaping the conversation about birth, highlighting [...]

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    Ultrasound a brain scrambler?

    Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

    A private philanthropic organization in California that studies brain science sets up a little alarm for pregnant folks who load their baby’s ultrasound picture onto their iPhone to zip around to friends and family. The DANA Foundation alerts us to new research cautioning the rampant use of what so many folks must assume is a [...]

    Posted in Technology, Uncategorized, research | No Comments »

    Natural Born Babies: A Modern Birth Story

    Saturday, May 16th, 2009

    My email this week brought a beautiful, uplifting, happy treat.  Lorri Walker, founder and director of South Coast Midwifery, forwarded a ” modern account of today’s natural childbirth.”  Told by 10 mothers, the short film chronicles their journeys to challenge the conventional hospital birth model to give birth in their own way. Check out Natural Born Babies: A [...]

    Posted in Birth Stories, Birth and the Media, Confident Birth, Home Birth, Midwives, birth advocacy, informed decision making | No Comments »