Lawyers say: If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table. I guess the obstetrical equivalent would be: If you have the experience, pound the experience. If you have the scientific evidence, pound the evidence. […]
Over the years, I’ve talked with many people about homebirth and there is one thing that really stands out. The vast majority of people, whether laypeople, journalists or even homebirth advocates themselves, don’t realize that homebirth midwives aren’t real midwives. They don’t know that homebirth midwives (certified professional midwives or CPMs) are a second, inferior […]
Earlier this year New Hampshire’s Tea Party controlled House of Representatives passed a bill mandating that doctors inform women that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. There’s just one problem: there’s no scientific evidence that this claim is true, and copious evidence that it is not. According to the Huffington Post: The bill, sponsored […]
Homebirth advocates are braggarts. Perhaps there’s a homebirth advocate who has treated homebirth as an intimate family event, but I haven’t heard of it. The mode of birth is part of the birth announcement, no opportunity to boast about it goes unfulfilled, and, most importantly, video is posted on line so that all 7 billion […]
A review of waterbirth in the Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health succinctly summarizes the current state of knowledge about waterbirth. Water births and the research required to assess the benefits versus the harms by Mark W. Davies starts by making it clear that there is a big difference between laboring in water and giving […]
Gina Crosley-Corcoran, The Feminist Breeder, has reached a milestone of sorts. After 2 ½ years working as a doula, she has now attended 20 births. I’ve had the opportunity to watch nearly two dozen women become mothers, either for the first or the fifth time, and it is always a transformative experience. I’m not only […]
My post about the midwifery legal guide that recommends lying to your patients was picked up by Lindsay Beyerstein at In These Times, who pointed out:. No witnesses” is a motto for a hitman, not a health care provider. Elizabeth Camp the midwife who recommended lying responded, explaining that she had a good reason to […]
I’ve been running message boards and blogs on the internet for 18 years, and it never ceases to amaze me that lay people, childbirth educators, doulas and homebirth midwives parachute in to “enlighten” me about modern obstetrics. I spent 4 years in college, 4 years in medical school, and 4 years in internship and residency. […]
Obama care is coming to Oregon and it’s bad news for homebirth midwives. Big changes are coming with the implementation of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and some local midwives are worried that low-income clients from the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) will be lost in the shuffle. OHP services in Lane County have historically been […]
Want to know what homebirth midwives really think? Read From Calling to Courtroom, A Survival Guide for Midwives. I should warn you in advance, though, that it may turn your stomach. It may surprise you to find that midwives are every bit as concerned about legal action as the obstetricians they deride. They’re not worried […]
Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1979 and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. Her book, Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting (HarperCollins) was published in 2016. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com... More
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