Midwife: Sage Femme, Hebamme, Comadrona, Partera

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I have seen so many birth stories just like this. I’ve known a few women that wanted to send birth announcements to their previous providers (that ‘diagnosed’ CPD), but they knew that the providers wouldn’t remember them at all. How upsetting that we remember the providers that cause us trauma, grief and intense pain […]

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In a culture that sees women routinely induced prior to the “due date”, it’s hell when someone goes 16 days past that magical date on the calendar.
The calls, the fear, the concern. It’s frustrating, but it’s understandable based on what our culture views as “normal”. Well-meaning friends, relatives are all offering their support in strained […]

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Tina Cassidy, brilliant author of Birth: The Surprising Way We are Born added this to my last post:

I will just add that obesity goes hand in hand with race and class. The poorer, the heavier, statistics have shown. One of the worst-kept secrets in modern maternity is that African-American women have the highest c-section rates […]

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I have to say that I’m always fully supportive of women to make their own, informed choices. I just need to point out that I am grateful - eternally, blissfully grateful - that my view of birth is vastly different than what is seen in the hospital. Even in “normal” hospital births.
Barb Herrera […]

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