“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in…tranquility.” ― Kahlil Gibran I admit that I have had an easy life. Not all that much pain of either […]
“Even Grammar Bows to Surgical Authority”
Who would you believe, if they told you you needed a cesarean? An episiotomy? A hysterectomy? In his book All Natural, Nathanael Johnson points out that people often fail to see clearly when it comes to their own decision-making in the face of a surgeon’s perspective. We tend to bow to the authority of doctors. As he says, “America […]
Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics
Here’s something I’ve learned to be afraid of after spending a lot of time looking at them: Numbers. Oh they can be very useful. But they can also be very, very misleading. Our highly-evolved human brains with these gigantic neocortexes, living in a society where technology, science, and progress are revered, have us subduing […]
When you fail at birth, part II
When You Fail At Birth, Part I Some of us have failed at birth even when we ‘succeeded’. Many women who wanted a natural, unmedicated birth (and got it!) feel that they failed to have the experience they wanted. Women are set up for feelings of failure in their births–especially first births–when they don’t get […]
On fear, love & decision-making
“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 […]
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