I’m in the business. It’s not a competition. We should practice evidence based care, period. Often, that involves offering VBACs more than we do. Poor outcomes are due to not practicing evidence based care and not ensuring women have access to care.

More than one person has argued with me that pregnancy “isn’t that big of a health risk” any more and that “most pregnancies end up perfectly healthy” and that’s why abortion is wrong. So... Let’s assume that 99.9% of mothers and babies are fine. We’re just going to decide to not give a shit about the other 0.1% of…

So interesting! I think that using it in full awareness of how subjective it is/can be (very much like ‘natural foods’) is fine - one of my two births was quote-unquote natural until the moment that it wasn’t (it required emergency medical intervention, because Nature is a stone cold bitch sometimes and she just likes…

I’m not - sorry that wasn’t clear. I dislike the modifier ‘natural’ applied without question to a certain kind of childbirth, with its implied superiority. So I appreciated the subtle nod of the quotes, which I took as an acknowledgement that ‘natural’ is something of a subjective description.

Team midwife here too! Had both of my boys with a CNM (certified nurse midwife, 4 year RN plus a masters in midwifery). Uncomplicated pregnancy but complications with delivery number one and hemorrhaged both times. Glad I was in a hospital, but so glad I wasn’t being seen by an OB who would probably have had me have a…

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I have this vision of a mobile preventive medicine team. A couple of nurses with a giant van that stops in rural areas and poor areas. Anyone can access the mobile unit for free. They check the basics: heart, lungs, the mini ECG ambulances uses, blood sugar, blood pressure. I can see that alone helping so many women…

That’s what I want to see. An increase in quality, qualified midwives. I saw one for my gynecological exams until I went to college and I loved her.

An RN midwife would greatly cut down on the cost of births for everyone, too. It reduces the immediate cost for the low-risk pregnancy, sure, but surely it must also cut down on unnecessary hospital costs and procedures due to protocol, so that more attention is spent on the high-risk patients. Then, since less…

Alberta has a midwife program whereby home birth with a midwife is free, and the midwife is a RN. It’s hard to access to the program because, obviously, the demand is overwhelming, but nevertheless it’s there, giving people more options that are still safe and lessens the overall impact on the system for low-risk…

Them, and the forced-birth douchebags what say “you can just give it up for adoption” as if pregnancy and childbirth weren’t a huge goddamn ordeal.

I mean, the Dalai Lama has sort of been involved in politics for a very long time.

He does an impression of Donald Trump Jr., too.

When the religious leader most associated with universal compassion mocks you, it’s time to take a look at your life choices.

This hater and loser hasn’t even met Donald Trump, doesn’t even have a country anymore. Wasn’t able to negotiate a good deal with China. Sad!

I want it as a ringtone. I want it to play every time someone rings the doorbell. When I get cut off in traffic, I want that sentence instead of a horn. Marvelous.

Yeah. Syrian refugees are definitely our biggest concern.

I believe it’s Laura Richards who says “stalking is murder in slow motion.” We have to start treating stalking, dv, and sexual violence as huge red flags for murderers :(

Also, this is just my take, buy it’s entirely possible that his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was in decline around the time he met Angelina. I’m not saying it’s great if there was in fact some overlap, but also, shit happens. It was also over 10 years ago for God’s sake. Everyone actually involved has moved on.

I literally don’t want to know this. Please, as a fucking nation or whatever, let’s not sensationalize, thereby trivialize, child abuse or treat it like a weapon to be used for our entertainment as two celebrities spar with each other. These children and children like them are watching and reading and taking this in,…