Why Is ACOG So Scared of Midwives?

"Having a CPM attend your birth comes with a major benefit to taxpayers and states as well -- lower c-section rates, and lower complications result in big savings. Washington reported a savings of $2.7 million after just 2 years of use of CPMs. The Department of Health also found that over 87 percent of the time, transfer to a hospital is not required for moms or babies birthing outside the hospital with constant one-on-one care from a CPM"

36 Obvious Reasons You are Capable Of Natural Birth

Love this list!!! Sometimes we just need to be reminded. :-)

Miranda Kerr: I Had a Baby Boy with Orlando Bloom!

They released his name and a beautiful picture of her breastfeeding their newborn! Yay!

Beyond Biology: The Holistic Stages of Labor

This is one of the most powerful and intuitive accounts of the labor and birth process that I have ever read before. I was brought to tears several times by the power I felt and remembered from my own births as I read it. It is lengthy, but you will not be sorry if you take the time to go all the way through it.

It's a Boy and a HOme Birth for Owen Wilson

They did it!!! :-)

Owen Wilson & Jade Duell Planning a Home Birth

Luke's birth story (HBAC)

Click on the title link to be redirected to the article.

Mom defies doctor, has baby her way

Chlorhexidine (Hibiclens) Protocol For Labor Among GBS Positive Women

"No matter where you plan to birth, (home, birthing center, hospital) if you elect to test for GBS and the results are positive, you also have options other than automatic antibiotics."

Birth Tubs & Waterbirth

Photos and descriptions of a large variety of birthing tubs and the places they are used.

SE MN Doulas

"If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it." ~ John H. Kennell

, M.D.

Looking for a doula in the SE MN area? Here is a list of several to choose from. :-) Two of them, Jennie Schindle & Jackie Mysak are included in my "Bradley® Supportive Business Owners" listing, located toward the top of the page.

Born in the caul

Beautiful pictures of a baby being born with the membrane sac and amniotic fluid still intact.

New Baby!!!

Congratulations to couple #7 on the birth of your 9lb 4oz baby boy, at your home, with a midwife, on Sunday May 2nd 2010!!! I am so proud of all three of you. :-)

Home Birth: “Brave” Has Nothing To Do With It

The writer of this article is very strongly supportive of the safety of home birth, as am I. However please do not let her enthusiasm offend you if you have had a hospital birth or are currently planning one. The biggest thing I want you to take note of is the scientific evidence that she cites in the body of the article.

Top 5 Myths About Having a Home Birth

Excerpt from the article:

Whenever I'd tell someone I was having a home birth, their reaction would inevitably fall into one of three buckets:

1. "YAY! I wish I'd done that." (Or, "I have done that.")
2. "How? What? Why?" A million questions.
3. "Are you crazy? What if something bad happens?"

Alternative Birthing Methods - ABC News

Alternative Birthing Methods - ABC News

The Bradley Method® of Natural Childbirth listed as the first of five alternatives to avoid a C-section.

Home Births Rise, Mostly By Choice

Excerpt from the article;

"The American Public Health Association, the World Health Organization, and, as you might expect, the American College of Nurse Midwives, all support home and out-of-hospital births for low-risk women."

"Some of the states with big increase: Alabama, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin."

CDC Report: Demand for Out-of-Hospital Midwife Births Sharply Increases Research Debunks Physician Group Claims that Actress Ricki Lake is Responsible

Excerpt from the PDF file;

“The idea that American women choose out-of-hospital delivery because a celebrity had her baby at home or because they value the birth ...‘experience’ over the health of their babies is not only insulting, but it reveals an appalling lack of awareness on the part of ACOG and the AMA about the economic pressures influencing the health care decisions that people are making,”

Questions about Home Birth

Excerpt from the article;

There are many questions that people want to know about home birth as it actually plays out rather than the mere philosophy of the setting of birth. This will be an attempt the answer some of those questions.