The mainstream media is buzzing with the news that C-sections purportedly increase the risk of obesity in offspring by 15%. Here’s the LA Times: [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]There’s just one problem. An increase of 15% is essentially nothing.[/pullquote] Your very first moments of life can influence your risk of obesity for years, […]
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Here’s why no one has taken the anti-vax challenge
I threw down the anti-vax gauntlet yesterday and offered a relatively simple challenge to those who believe passionately that vaccines are dangerous, ineffective or both. It’s been seen by nearly 75,000 people so far and not a single one has taken it, let alone passed it. I’m not surprised since passing the challenge requires being […]
Take the Dr. Amy Anti-vax Challenge
I don’t know about the rest of the pro-science community, but I’m getting mighty tired of anti-vaxxers swooping in to websites and Facebook pages, defecating all over them with absurd claims about the dangers of vaccines or their components, vomiting random scientific citations they haven’t even read and then declaring they’ve “proved” their claims. Therefore, […]
Trump supporters: when this is over YOU will have nothing that you want
Garrison Keillor wrote an awesome takedown of Donald Trump entitled When this is over, you will have nothing that you want. Labor Day and it is not going well. You had a very bad month. You tossed out those wisecracks on Twitter and the Earth shook and your ratings among white suburban women with French […]
The lost art of driving drunk
Imagine if I wrote the following: I cannot sufficiently describe the profound sadness and disappointment I feel upon hearing that the State of California has banned drunk driving. I wanted to write to you to express my thoughts on the matter. It is my sincere hope that you will reflect seriously on my comments, as […]
Seeing toxins everywhere is another form of privilege
It is axiomatic among quacktivists — anti-vaccine activists, organic food devotees, natural parenting advocates — that our world is filled with toxins. But toxicophobia, fear of toxins, is really just another form of privilege. Only those in wealthy, industrialized societies who have access to copious food and clean water, and are protected from epidemics of infectious […]
Anti-vaccine parents and the package insert paradox
Hey, anti-vaxxers, help me out here! You’re big fans of vaccine package inserts, right? You’re constantly waving them in parents’ faces insisting that they “reveal” the “truth” about vaccine dangers, right? So why do you ignore the package insert when it talks about the benefits, efficacy and safety of vaccines? [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” […]
American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative kills babies
Finally, a step in the right direction! After several years of mounting evidence that the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), designed to promote breastfeeding, leads to preventable deaths of babies being smothered in or falling from their mothers hospital beds, the American Academy of Pediatrics has finally weighed in. Their Clinical Report, written by members […]
See Baby Midwifery Supporters to hospital: Ignore dead and injured babies or we’ll sue you!
I, I, me, me, my birth, my VBAC, my experience, just me, always me! On Wednesday, I wrote about Dr. Brad Bootstaylor and See Baby Midwifery. DeKalb Medical Center restricted Dr. Bootstaylor’s privileges allegedly in the wake of a profoundly injured baby resulting from an attempted homebirth after two previous C-sections. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” […]
Why is See Baby Midwifery protesting practice restrictions designed to prevent them from hurting more babies?
Is Dr. Brad Bootstaylor another Dr. Wonderful? Long time readers may remember the story of the original Dr. Wonderful, Robert Biter, MD. Back in 2010 Dr. Biter had his obstetric privileges at Scripps Encinitas suspended. Natural childbirth advocates held marches, conducted a letter writing campaign, and blogged in support, all without having any idea of […]
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
