I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues
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First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don't
Taking Back Birth
Are You a Birth Witch?
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How We Named
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Take responsibility for your pregnancy and for the health of your baby. In response to a reader that has accused me of perpetuating the myth that “premature birth is somehow the mother’s fault”, I feel I must address all of my readers. This email comes as a response to my last article, You Have the […]
Are you one of the many pregnant women who worry that her baby will come too soon? But what would you think if I told you that in the homebirth practice I work in, we hardly ever, ever see a baby born before about 39 weeks? These 2 questions are related because the midwifery community […]
If I had a penny for every time I heard a woman with a new baby say that she didn’t have enough milk to breastfeed, or that the baby was too demanding and she couldn’t keep up, I’d be rich. Now I’m not saying this is the woman’s fault necessarily. We have come to birth […]
Group Beta Streptococcus (GBS) testing in pregnant women is pretty standard nowadays. Like a lot of routine testing, many women don’t even know why they are being tested or what exactly they are being tested for. Most women don’t realize that each and every test is also a choice. You don’t absolutely have to consent […]
