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A California hospital has decided it’s not safe enough for midwives – so they’ve kicked the healthcare practitioners out the door, and their patients along with them.
St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital told certified nurse midwives they’ll have to see their patients at a sister facility eleven miles away from now on. According to the Ventura County Star, that sister facility has a NICU, which hospital adminstrators say the midwives need as “back up.” Continue reading »
Here’s a Baby New Year story with a twist — in Port Angeles, Washington, the first baby of the year was born at home.
I’ve done my share of “first baby of the year” stories, and this is the first one I have ever seen where the baby came at home (on purpose, anyway). Raechel Allen gave birth to her second daughter, Miya Isabella, in a birthing tub in what was described as a wonderful home water birth. Continue reading »
When Leroy Smith, 29, realized that his wife Emma was going to deliver their fourth baby at home before the midwife arrived, he did what came naturally. Smith pulled out his Blackberry and frantically googled “how to deliver a baby”.
Pregnancy is the one time overweight women can get a break from society. Unless they’re planning at one English hospital.
The Weston General Hospital has announced it will turn away obese women who want to give birth there – for fear that their weight is going to kill them. Continue reading »
One of the world’s best-known experts on obstetrics has announced he thinks Dads need to get out of the delivery room and leave the women to it.
Dr. Michel Odent is a French obstetrician who’s heavily involved in the orgasmic birth and home-birthing movements. Last year, he wrote a piece in the Daily Mail espousing his theories about why dad needs to stay “nearby” for the birth, but stay out of the delivery room.
Now he’s back, with plans to address the Royal College of Midwives in England next month, and he’ll be sharing the same story that got modern women riled last year: bid Daddy goodbye. Continue reading »
Of course this is on Etsy, where else would it have been?! Based on everything I know of Etsy crafters I want to hang with those ladies because they are CRUNKED. They are like the Tony Starks of knitting. Except instead of getting hooched and flying around blasting their repulsers, they slam the purple drank, pick up some needles and do some damage.
Who ever made this is the Andy Warhol of crafting. Check out this latest epic squeezed out of the factory.
A male midwife in the U.K. thinks women in labor who ask for epidurals are avoiding a rite of passage and that skipping the pain isn’t preparing these women for the responsibility of bringing up a baby.
Epidurals as a gateway to child neglect? Continue reading »
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