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Why Labor Hurts, Why You Don’t Have to Love It & Other Insights from a...
One of Ellen's classes in Brooklyn In her 28 years as a childbirth educator, Ellen Chuse, CCE, has built a huge following in New York. Week after week, young couples file into her cozy Brooklyn...
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2011: Year Of The Midwife!
An incredible moment for midwives everywhere. My Facebook feed went ballistic last night with virtual shouts of joy from all my friends in the birth community. The midwife Robin Lim had just won the...
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Give The Gift Of Good Birth
I don’t normally do things like this. I’m not rich and though at times I consider myself a very real New York housewife, I don’t attend Real Housewives-style charities and galas. But I care deeply...
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The 25 Top Pregnancy Stories of 2011
Foreskin Man... epidurals *after* the birth … “Uterus Police”… it’s been quite a year for a pregnancy and birth blogger! Here are the highlights: There’s a 20% spike in home births in the US. The...
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Chinese Woman Gives Birth on a Plane, Flight Crew Assist
What happens if you go into active labor on a plane? Feng Yu, 23, just found out on a recent 2 hour China Eastern Airlines flight. She went into labor 50 minutes into the flight and gave birth seven...
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Do Epidurals Get A Bad Rap?
Slate ran a piece last week called “The Truth About Epidurals” in which Melinda Wenner Moyer delves into the research on epidurals and concludes that they don’t seem to carry the many risks often...
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UK Ethicist Says Women Would Be Better Off if Babies Grew in Artificial Wombs
True liberation or misogynist fantasy? An ethicist in the UK reckons women will never truly be equal with men until babies can be gestated in artificial wombs. Dr. Anna Smajdor, writing in the...
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Home Birth Up 29% Since 2004, Why Is That?
According to the CDC, the number of home births in the US went up 29% between 2004 and 2009. The number is still low– it went form 0.56% of all births to 0.72 %, but that’s still almost 30,000 births....
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Squat That Baby Out, Old School
Yup, this is basically how it works. This is me giving birth to my daughter in 2007. OK it isn’t. It’s a diorama from a museum in Mexico. Besides it’s totally different–at my birth the midwife was...
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“Watch This Amazing Unassisted Birth”
I just saw this short video of a woman giving birth alone. It was posted on Youtube with the caption: “This mamma was waiting for her husband and midwife and just did it! It really can be that...
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10 Great Quotes From Ina May Gaskin About Birth, Bodies & Being an Animal
Ina May Gaskin and Jennifer Block in NYC Last night I attended a conversation between legendary midwife and author Ina May Gaskin and Jennifer Block (journalist, former editor of Ms. magazine and...
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The Most Scientific Birth is the Low Tech Birth
When Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, got pregnant she researched her options and decided that a low-tech birth would be the most...
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The Top Pregnancy Stories The Week (No Mother’s Day! Good Bacteria! Gloria...
Jenna Fisher says so what if her boobs sag, she made a human. * Christy Turlington asks mothers to stand in solidarity with women around the world who face preventable death during pregnancy and...
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Consumer Reports Tells Pregnant Women 10 Procedures To Avoid
Widely circulated among maternal health advocates this week, “10 Procedures to Think Twice About During Your Pregnancy” from Consumer Reports reminds pregnant women that, among other things, they are...
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Adorable Time-Lapse Pregnancy Video Delivers Serious Message
The March of Dimes has paired their important message — let labor begin on its own — with a beautiful time-lapse video of a pregnancy carried to term. It’s a cute and effective way to get across the...
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Hey, Doc, There’s a Brain Attached to That Uterus
In, “Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients,” Salon contributor Mary Elizabeth Williams, offers some blunt advice to doctors about their bedside manners. Williams is coming from the...
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Comedian Jim Gaffigan’s Hilarious Home Birth Riff on Late Night
"A midwife was there because we believe in witchcraft." In this Late Night clip stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan tells David Letterman about his wife’s five home births. It provides a hysterical...
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An Interview with the Makers of “Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm...
Donate a few dollars to the film's Kickstarter campaign and get this cool swag and a copy of the DVD. The documentary BIRTH STORY: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives is premiering this month at the...
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The Difference Between a Doula and a Midwife
I am often asked, “Is a doula the same as a midwife?” I can understand the confusion; midwifery is not as common in the US as it is in other countries– most of us grow up assuming a doctor is the only...
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Watch Barbie Give Birth, It’s So Real
I’ve been a fan of Barbie Art since Todd Haynes first put the Mattel dolls to work in his 1987 movie, “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.” Now self-described “birth-junkie” and photographer Katie...
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