It’s remarkable really. Homebirth had nothing to do with the fact that the baby died. It’s just an amazing coincidence. Yes, I know that my obstetrician, my mother-in-law and my best friend warned me that the baby could die at homebirth, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the baby did […]
In the latest issue of Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care (the journal that purports to be objective, but is actually sponsored by Lamaze International), Gene Declercq writes about The Politics of Home Birth in the United States. According to Declercq: … [T]he debates over home birth have increasingly begun to parallel current partisan battles in […]
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has just published a new position paper opposing homebirth and it is deeply disappointing. It is easy to make a well researched case about the dangers of homebirth, relying on high quality research papers, copious state, national and international statistics and appropriately mindful of women’s right to bodily […]
Kudos to bioethicist Anne Drapkin Lyerly for the natural childbirth version of speaking truth to power. Lyerly is is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She writes about social and moral issues in women’s health and reproductive medicine. She’s also […]
An quick review of my blog posts so far in 2012 shows that I have written about 14 separate confirmed homebirth deaths attended by American homebirth midwives this year. That doesn’t include additional homebirth deaths that I have been told about but have not yet been able to confirm. To put it in perspective, American […]
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 for conservatives who live in their own insular online, television and print world, where conservative bloggers affirm their conservative beliefs, where Fox […]
1. At the Academy Awards I’d like to thank the director for creating such a wonderful film, the producer for offering me the greatest part of my career, my agent who never stopped believing in me and my mom for refusing to have an epidural during my birth. 2. At a high school graduation: […]
If women can be traumatized by not having their perfect birth experience, how much more traumatized could they be by not having the perfect parenting experience. Consider the following. Grieving My Son When I was pregnant, I had my perfect parenting experience all laid out. I wanted the experience of parenting a daughter. My mom […]
The beauty of narcissism is that no matter what happens, it’s all about the narcissist. That’s why, in the wake of 5 babies who died completely preventable deaths at homebirth, Lisa Barrett thinks it’s all about her. Tate Spencer-Koch, Jahli Jean Hobbs, Sam, Tully Kavanaugh and Ian are dead because Lisa Barrett minimized the risks […]
A new study shines light on the risk factors for severe maternal morbidity and the reason why morbidity is rising. Population-Based Study of Risk Factors for Severe Maternal Morbidity by Gray et al. appears in the current issue of Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. The authors begin by explaining the rationale for looking beyond maternal deaths […]
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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