VICE UK offers the Argument for Masturbating During Childbirth. Doula Angela Gallo describes her experience: As I neared transition, near the end of labor, I was feeling very vulnerable and stressed-out; I went into the shower to find some relief, and my husband asked if I would like to have sex. I said no, but […]
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Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine publishes embarrassingly weak rebuttal to my plea to save well baby nurseries
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) has just published a rebuttal to my recent piece in TIME, Closing Newborn Nurseries Isn’t Good for Babies or Moms in which I address one of the central tenets of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), rooming-in, which is ostensibly about increasing breastfeeding rates, a task that it doesn’t […]
Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative: powerful women punishing powerless women for not emulating them
There are a lot of things wrong with the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), a series of measures designed to promote breastfeeding. Chief among them: [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Whatever happened to maternal choice?[/pullquote] 1. It is shaming, implying that women who choose formula don’t care about their own babies. 2. It is […]
Evidence based support: it doesn’t mean what this doula thinks it means
Australian doula Lizzie Carroll is miffed. Last Wednesday I wrote about another dead baby born to a member of Meg Heket’s unassisted birth group, and the subsequent praise for the mother “achieving” her goal of a vaginal birth over a baby’s dead body. Meg Heket and the other women who encouraged this mother have blood […]
A sneak peek of my new book PUSH BACK: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting
Only a month to go until my book PUSH BACK: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting is published on April 5! HarperCollins has posted a generous excerpt to whet your appetite. If you prefer a full size version, you can find it here. [iframe width=”500″ height=”720″ src=”//aerbook.com/books/Push_Back-15368-146063.html” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”]
The vaginal birth of a dead baby is an evolutionary failure
Two days ago I wrote about the extraordinary callousness of a group of unassisted birth advocates who brag about “successful” vaginal births despite the fact that the babies died. The most recent example occurred earlier this week: [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]A woman’s body is designed to produce a live baby, not a […]
Meg Heket dances on a baby’s grave … and that’s not even the worst part
Remember unassisted birth advocate Meg Heket? Heket, you may recall, is the sister of Janet Fraser (My dead baby was not as traumatic as my birth rape). She is also a co-administrator with Ruth Rodley of a number of homebirth and unassisted birth groups. No doubt you remember Ruth. She’s the one who, in the […]
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The unspeakable callousness of a homebirth loss mother
The baby died two days ago at an unassisted home VBAC. The mother wrote on her Facebook page: Dearest family and friends, baby Isaac was born 2-29-16 weighing 10 lbs 9oz and 23.5 inches long. With so much pain in our hearts and not knowing how to even say this but Isaac did not survive […]
An anti-vax smoke detector?
I’ve been musing about what would happen if anti-vax pediatrician invented a smoke alarm. I imagine it would look something like this: And it would be just as effective at keeping kids safe as Dr. Bob’s anti-vax advice.
Amy Tuteur, MD
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
