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Birth plan? Doula? Natural birth? Not here you don’t.
A sign posted at the Aspen OB/GYN Women’s Center in Provo, Utah has many women up in arms. What’s so offensive? Read for yourself. The sign reads as follows: Because the Physicians at Aspen Women’s...
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Follow-up to TODAY show guest post: childbirth resources
If you are visiting from the TODAY show blog, welcome and thank you for visiting. :) If you haven’t yet read my guest post on the TODAY show, you can read it here: Viewer: Learn more about cesarean...
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For Better or For Worse? Childbirth in Popular Culture
After watching the live cesarean birth on the TODAY show last week and then the commercial for Jennifer Lopez’s new movie The Back-Up Plan during the Superbowl*, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way...
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Kourtney Kardashian: Inspiring Women with her Zen-like Childbirth?
Two weeks ago I wrote about the way childbirth is generally portrayed, even mocked, in popular culture and how that often negatively colors women’s beliefs about birth. Sunday, however, on the season...
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Portrait of a Home Birthing Couple: Guest Post
I’m currently on hiatus from blogging (read more about the reasons why), but want to continue to provide interesting and insightful content on my blog in the meantime. For a while I will have guest...
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Just call me the goat doula
Childbirth is one of those amazing things in life that’s nothing short of a miracle and leaves me in awe. Whether it’s reflecting on the birth of my children, hearing about a friend’s birth or reading...
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Giving birth can be good, ecstatic and even orgasmic
I know I just wrote about this topic last week, but I have more to share and wrote about it for BlogHer this week. Last week, Lisa Belkin, parenting blogger at The NY Times, wrote about the upcoming...
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20/20’s Extreme Motherhood falls short, disappoints
As I found myself watching and live Tweeting the 20/20 episode on Extreme Motherhood on ABC Friday night, I felt disappointed that once again mainstream media had let me down. It didn’t come as a...
View ArticleHome birth advocate’s baby dies during free birth, prompts questions
Janet Fraser, a home birth advocate and founder of the site Joyous Birth, recently experienced a personal tragedy when her baby died at her home in Australia on March 27 during her free birth or...
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Babies come out of where?! Explaining childbirth to kids
I was due to give birth to my son when my daughter Ava was 2 1/2 years old. Since my husband and I were planning a home birth, we felt it was important to discuss with Ava how the baby would be born....
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