WE WANT MIDWIVES!

Thank you for posting this. As a new midwife (just received my masters this spring and am studying for the boards now) I am glad that midwifery is all the rage amongst the hipsters (cuz I need a job!), but the truth is that midwifery is so much more than a status symbol. Midwives provide primary health care to all…

Thanks for this article. It's a hugely important issue. Maternal mortality is a true human rights tragedy. Training midwives and birth attendants in developing countries, especially ones marred by conflict or eenvironmental catastrophes, is a proven way to save lives, not just of laboring women, but also of the…

Let's let Hermione have the honor...

I went to nhs.uk to see if they provide info on birth costs in the UK and when I typed in the search terms birth and cost I got an article about how home births are more cost effective than hospital births. Yet here (in the US) people act like you're trying to kill your baby if you consider a homebirth and a midwife.…

The article is only comparing vaginal births. I think the real reason for the disparity is (obviously) medical price gouging in general and MDs here make a fuck lot more than Dr's in England. That's one reason there are no PA's there, because PA's here are popular as a cheaper alternative to MD's. They don't really…

Batzimman. Bammerman. Zimbatman.

He's part stingray, obvs.

Part of me sincerely hopes that Kate had the baby this week at her parents' house (home birth!) and has been faking out the press all this time.

I just feel like I'm going to be out of the loop all weekend, like I normally am, and I'll miss the whole thing.

That is a phenomenal observation!

I have been preaching this for years. Parenting: Not That Hard, Calm The Fuck Down.

I think I find this article just as seen it before and confused as the article it is commenting on.

It's not really surprising, is it?

I mean, if Kanye and Kim are about anything, it's the "I." All about the "I."

If "often very safe" doesn't work for someone they should definitely avoid having a pregnancy in the first place.

A VBAC, assuming all conditions are good, is recommended as a safer birth choice by ACOG. Repeat c-sections have a higher rate of mortality for the mothers, greater risk of complication, and so on. If you are an average patient and have a decently competent doctor, chances are you'll be just fine with a repeat c - but…

No. I had a VBAC and so did a few of my friends. It's actually not difficult (and it's recommended as a safer choice than a repeat c-section), but it depends on the hospital, your OB/midwife, your overall health, the reason for the first one, and the length of time since the previous delivery. I had 20 months between…

We use Green Beaver sunscreen for everyone in the family — SPF 30 all over for our two year-old son, and a combo of SPF 15 for our faces and 30 for the rest of our bodies (the 30 is slightly greasy, while you don't notice at all that you're wearing the 15).