Women’s agony is sexy. Consider the latest images making the rounds under the headline Photographer Makes Statement Against Caesareans In Brazil By Capturing Girlfriend’s Home Birth. For example: If you did not know that this woman was in labor, you might confuse the images with pornographic images of sexual ecstasy. That’s not a coincidence. The image […]
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Why are breastfeeding advocates so mean?
A Breastfeeding-Family-Friendly City designation? According to the Daily Tar Heel: Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents will soon see local stores with signs welcoming breastfeeding mothers and information encouraging the practice of breastfeeding. The towns are set to become two of the first cities in the country to receive the Breastfeeding-Family-Friendly City Designation. “It’s a pilot […]
Breastfeeding and the curious epidemic of “broken” baby tongues
Am I the only one to have noticed this irony? Lactivists insist that women are mammals and mammals are “designed” for breastfeeding. They insist that breastmilk is the perfect food; in order for it to be the perfect food, it would have to be highly nutritious, always available in the amounts needed, and the baby […]
The Milk Meg and lactivists’ desperate desire to hurt other mothers
Whaddya know? Meg Nagle, the self proclaimed Milk Meg, doesn’t “give a shit” that you feel judged, but she thinks it’s a very big deal when she is judged for her nastiness. In the wake of my blog post about lactivists’ cruelty and crushing lack of self-esteem, she removed her rant explaining why she couldn’t […]
MilkMeg and lactivists’ crushing lack of self-esteem
The Alpha Parent, queen of lactivist viciousness, appears to have dropped off the map. But fortunately for me, a new queen of viciousness has crawled out from under a rock, The Milk Meg. Meg Nagle, the eponymous Milk Meg, describes herself thus: In between breastfeeding my youngest boy, chasing after my oldest two boys, blogging […]
Melissa Cheyney admits home VBAC has a horrific mortality rate
Surprise! Attempted vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) at home has a horrific mortality rate. That’s what Melissa Cheyney, CPM and promoter of home VBAC was forced to acknowledge in a new paper in the Lamaze “journal” Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care. The paper is Planned Home VBAC in the United States, 2004–2009: Outcomes, Maternity Care […]
UK Birthplace Study tries to bury dead babies twice
I’ve long maintained that the authors of the UK Birthplace Study, the largest study of its kind, started with the conclusion and worked backward to find evidence to support it. The Birthplace Study began after the British government had declared that homebirth was safe and should be encouraged to save money. The study strained to […]
We’re spending millions to promote breastfeeding; where’s the return on investment?
Public health initiatives, by definition, are meant to improve public health. [pullquote align=”right” color=””]We waste millions on public health campaigns that produce no discernible return on investment.[/pullquote] They are usually based on solid scientific evidence, their implementation saves thousands if not millions of lives, and they pay for themselves many times over in lives saved, […]
Introducing Jen Jones CPN, certified professional nuclear physicist
Hi, I’m Jen Jones, CPN, MA, PsD, a certified professional nuclear physicist (CPN). I know what you’re thinking: a real nuclear physicist needs a PhD (instead of a PsD), must have spent years at a super expensive school like MIT and has to work in a place like Los Alamos in New Mexico where they […]
What has the natural childbirth industry done to reduce mortality rates? Absolutely nothing.
I’ve often written that the natural childbirth industry (midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, businesses like Lamaze, and lobbying organizations like the Childbirth Connection) is obsessed with process, in contrast to modern obstetrics, which focuses on outcomes. Simply put, how your baby is born is more important to the natural childbirth industry than whether your baby is […]
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
