Also, I don't get all the god snark. Yeah she's a fundi, but we're all entitled to our own religious beliefs.

God, you are full of it.

I've been a nurse in a neonatal ICU for five years, and there is nothing worse than hearing that you'll be admitting a baby who is a "failed home birth." Three innocuous words to sum up an otherwise normal pregnancy that has gone terribly wrong, and an otherwise healthy baby who will very likely be left with…

I've never probably said anything remotely controversial on Jez, and hopefully this isn't really... I have swatted my kids hands away from things and that has caused a major psychic wound, because it was interpreted as a hit so I am very careful. But (and here comes the but) I agree with the guy who wrote Toddler…

Pick your poison:

So racism can't be a part of any argument I make?

You still haven't replied to my other comment.

Spike has always had haters (mostly non-Black, though he has his share of mentally underdeveloped Negroes who can't stand the fact that he holds a mirror up to their shortcomings) due to his uncompromising intolerance of disrespect of Black people throughout his 30-year career.

The problem is that you don't know when there is going to be a problem. Homebirth increases the risk your child will die. Period. This is borne out by the evidence. They controlled for risk-matched populations and it's still more dangerous, even if you are low risk. The homebirth advocates say, "call an ambulance"…

Close, and part of, but not altogether the reason.

Oh, you are so new. If you honestly think that the Black/Latin people who have been living in those neighborhoods for decades never complained to their aldermens and other district/city officials about the shitty conditions, then I have a lovely bridge to sell you. It connects Brooklyn to Manhattan and is quite…

The conclusions of this analysis should give you pause. You are justifiably concerned about problems going on in a particular hospital you know about. But this study should lead you to wonder about the problems of home delivery that you don't know about. On average, it appears that hospital delivery is safer - even…

That doesn't mean he loses his right an opinion. He grew up in the neighbourhood he's talking about.

Now cue the outrage from the white professional class Jezzies who just moved to Red Hook and like to brag to their friends at brunch how "vibrant" their neighborhood is but who have never talked to any of their neighbors who isn't also a white couple from Westchester.

The two years I spent as an accidental gentrifier (moved to NYC, didn't know any better, just picked a nabe with cheap rent) were some of the most humbling years of my life. He's right. You can't go stomping around in your Privilege Boots(tm), squashing the culture and traditions of those who made the neighborhood a…

To be honest as a young black Brooklyn girl born and raised i'm still on the fence about gentrification . For me its not about the "white" people moving in, its really about what happens when they move in which shows you just how racist New York City can be. Literally, the minute a white person moves into a…

The only thing that matters is the Data

My wife, the super woman went into the hospital and required no drugs or anything special and came out with a healthy baby 18 hours later. The bill after insurance was $4,500. We could have saved the money and just had the baby at home by ourselves while only taking a sick day.

The significance of the findings is not that they indicate home births are dangerous—indeed, 2 out of every thousand children is a pretty small number. The point is that it is erroneous to claim they are every bit as safe as hospital births, which tends to be the claim people make.