Tag Archives: labor

Why I joined the doula network

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

Back in October I wrote about joining the Full Spectrum Doula Network.  I joined because there are days when I identify myself as a doula, although most days I don’t. It’s totally not recommended procedure for getting through a degree, … Continue reading →

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Links on mothering while incarcerated

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

If you think the state of maternal care is bad in the U.S., consider how much worse it can be to try to bring a child into the world from within the prison system.  Over the past few months, as … Continue reading →

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Reading list

Posted on October 8, 2010 by

This week has been a rough scramble to dig my way back out of the hole my to-do list fell into last week aka family sickness week.  All my grand plans to write many posts in honor of Bridget’s first … Continue reading →

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Unmedicated birth

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

I’m so pleased that this post is part of the Labor Day Blog Carnival.  Head over to the Birth Activist blog to read other Labor Day posts. It never occurs to me to say that I had an “unmedicated birth.”  … Continue reading →

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Friday links

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

Fall semester has begun!  The neighborhood is teeming with returned college students, I’m back in the classroom, and Bridget had a grand day with babysitters while I was on campus yesterday.  Even the Friday links are ringing with university themes: … Continue reading →

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My outlaw birth

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

I had intended to head to the State House this morning to join in the effort to get the midwifery bill passed here in Massachusetts.  But 10-month-old Bridget slept poorly last night and awoke with a runny nose and a … Continue reading →

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Tracking the analysis of the meta-analysis

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

So, about that meta-analysis of “medical literature on the maternal and newborn safety of planned home vs planned hospital birth” that got me so worked up the other night, a lot of birth activists are asking questions about how it … Continue reading →

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New ACOG guidelines on VBACs

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Just last month, Timothy R. B. Johnson and Judy Norsigian in their great Boston Globe editorial “The High Cost of Cesareans” called for many birth reforms, among them: the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [to] amend a recommendation that … Continue reading →

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Eating during labor

Posted on July 21, 2010 by

Food justice is an enduring passion for me.  By the phrase “food justice” I mean to signal the ways in which food is bound up with social, economic, and environmental injustice, and how changes can be made to create more … Continue reading →

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