Never say that I don’t give credit where credit is due: When it comes to sheer unadulterated brazenness, the folks at the Midwives Alliance of North America’s (MANA) Division of Research have no equal. The only question that remains unanswered is whether they are liars or fools. Case in point, Thursday’s post on the Lamaze […]
In natural childbirth circles there are endless tales of birth trauma that occur in hospitals. Indeed, there are cases where women claim they are suffering from PTSD and even women who really are suffering from PTSD. Natural childbirth advocates like to claim that birth trauma is the result of a lack of supportive, respectful care […]
Suppose you read about an upcoming conference on human rights in childbirth. Since you are interested in making sure that all women have access to competent medical care, without regard for ability to pay, that incarcerated women not be forced to labor in chains, and that women have access to birth control, you decide to […]
In the wake of the presidential election, I wrote about the echo chamber that characterizes both Republican conservatism and natural childbirth advocacy. Conservatives were utterly shocked by the 2012 election results. It wasn’t just that their candidates and issues lost, but that they didn’t anticipate that they would lose. It is a wake up call […]
Giselle Bundchen, sanctimommy extraordinaire, has stepped into it again. You may recall that after her first child’s birth, she graced us with her thoughts on breastfeeding. “… Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?’” she […]
Does homebirth decrease the risk of postpartum hemorrhage? Now, a group of statisticians, Andrea Nove, Ann Berrington and Zoë Matthews, has published a paper in BMC Open (Comparing the odds of postpartum haemorrhage in planned home birth against planned hospital birth: results of an observational study of over 500,000 maternities in the UK) purporting to […]
Small children struggle with a conflict. They want approval from parents and other authority figures, but they want to misbehave, too. Solution? Misbehave but hide the evidence. The folks at the Coalition for Breech Birth seem to have the same problem. They want approval and respect from authority figures (A doctor is one of our […]
How on earth can anyone trust clowns like these from the Coalition for Breech Birth with the lives of their precious babies? Heather Shelley: Why is there such a fear of footling breech? Everything I read says don’t do it, but I have done two with primips and they have both been fine. November 11 […]
WARNING: This is not a satire, but it is so horrifying you will wish that it were. Everyone is the hero of their own story. Even women who commit manslaughter. Of course it takes a fair amount of mental gymnastics pretend that you are hero when a baby (or two, or three, or more) dies […]
And B and I got that news on Wednesday and B and I and the midwife cried together in her office. We cried for the loss of something that I had hoped for since the day that G was born. And the thing we talked about and read about and learned all about for 9 […]
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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