I feel like this is increasingly becoming the standard. My practice has 4 OBs and 10 CNMs. I only meet with CNMs, unless something happens where I need medical intervention, they will be attending. I am delivering at a very new hospital in NJ with a birthing center. 3 large private rooms with jacuzzis, if something…

So much this. A friend quite liked the idea of a midwife-attended birth because of the lower intervention rate, which is cool; but when I realized she didn’t know the difference between CPM and CNM I staged an immediate intervention. She ended up being referred by her CNM for an emergency C-section. By all means plan…

Accreditation and integration into medical community is key but we also have crap prenatal care in this country. The stats this is based on are from 2012 — it’ll be interesting to see how (if) this changes for more recent years when ACA was in full swing.

It just goes to show how the government cares SO. MUCH. about legislating medical care for the safety of women and babies, except y’know, when it comes to the actual medical safety of women and babies.

Simple. All midwives should be trained and certified through accredited medical and nursing programs.

It’s an extremely common thing, though. Faced with an incredibly difficult and complicated system, those who make it through will emerge with, usually, one of two different beliefs. Either “I jumped through all the hoops and had to deal with all the utter bullshit, so everyone else should too,” or “I had to deal with…

...we are loath to deeply criticize women for being superficial, or “fake,” or subservient to an arrangement they chose for themselves—as is, of course, their right.

Hardly a controversy and it gave us #Trapcover which was freaking hysterical.

White liberals can’t take a race joke.

I also loved how Larry Wilmore did not give a single fuck about the audience. He straight up did not care about their opinion or their reactions except to laugh at them for being a tough (white) crowd.

People are fucking weird. This was HILARIOUS. And all the more so by how many complete cringe worthy moments there were, of all these media people being entirely unable to laugh at them selves. Did you guys see Blitzer’s face?? If eyes could kill, Larry would be dead. Dead, I tell ya.

I feel like that’s all of CJ. People say she’s Sorkin’s one great female character. But I’m 100% convinced it’s just Allison Janney being awesome, he realized it and didn’t get in the way.

sometimes I watch the Noel episode just to cry.

Can I just say how cool it is to see both a family of color and a man featured prominently on the cover of a parenting magazine?? As a non-parent I’m not familiar with how often this particular magazine does this, maybe it’s frequent so this isn’t a big deal? I think it’s neato. This guy seems like a great Dad and I’m…

this family is so goddamn beautiful I can’t stand it

From the CDC report:

Good for him. It sucks because it’s like “Thanks cis white guy for drawing attention to inclusive feminism” but I love that he knows that and thinks its BS that he’s getting all the pats on the back for it when women from all walks of life have been saying this for awhile now and just getting crickets. So he’s dammed…

Now, as I’m reading through the comments, I’m seeing hate for him... why the hate for him? He is the literal definition of “woke bae” (as much as I hate that term) He is trying, yes, he makes mistakes as we all do, he admits and learns from and moves on ... so why the hate?

Nothing else to add except, stay woke, bae.

i’m honestly starting to get a little worried about him