Information & Inspiration for Pregnancy, Birth & Parenting
“The plural of anecdote is not data.” -Dr. Stuart Fischbein, supporter of choices in childbirth and vaginal breech birth I get all self righteously annoyed when people make decisions based on something that happened to their friend or their uncle’s hairdresser. “Oh my gosh I could never get a pedicure, my mom got fungus from […]
Birth of a baby, a mother, a father, and a family is a big deal. The biggest deal. So few want to admit this to themselves or others because socially, what happens in your birth is expected to bear out in your life only to the extent that it applies to the health of […]
A Cochrane Review* came out a few weeks ago stating that, though there haven’t been enough randomized controlled trials (RCTs–the gold standard in research) to absolutely prove it, an increasing body of observational studies show that planned home birth is just as safe as planned hospital birth for low-risk women. The best part about it […]
Yesterday I was at the premiere of the wonderful and much-needed new documentary Freedom for Birth. The film is about the abuse of human rights inflicted on childbearing women around the world. It featured interviews from a number of high-profile professionals in the birth field (Ina May Gaskin, Michael Odent, Sheila Kitzinger–who, might I add, […]
