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Touring the State Capital With R2-D2
Written by James, talking about Owen’s latest robot obsession.
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The latest news on Owen.
First Day of Preschool
Owen’s first day of preschool was on Thursday!
Birth Activist
I write blog posts for Birth Activist, along with a few other women. Here are a few of my recent posts there:
New Study [...]
The Birth Survey’s National Launch
The Birth Survey had it’s national launch on August 15th. As I’ve written about before, I have been volunteering with The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) Grassroots Advocates Committee (GAC) to help develop The Birth Survey. I have personally worked on the project for over a year, but it was started back [...]
C-section Rate At An All Time High
The CDC released it’s preliminary birth data for 2006.
Cesarean delivery is at an all time high of 31.1% of all births;
The cesarean delivery rate rose again in 2006, to 31.1 percent of all births, a 3 percent increase from 2005 and a new record high. The percentage of all births delivered by cesarean [...]
NaBloPoMo
It’s National Blog Posting Month! Which of course was inspired by National Novel Writing Month. In order to participate in NaBloPoMo, you basicaly just have to write one blog entry for each day in November. I don’t think I’ll be participating here on Mama Blogess, however, I now write for another blog [...]
Owen remembers his birth
Owen’s language key;
( ) = sign language or gesture indicating a word{ } = my narrationHuh-uh = Uh-huh or YesHaaah! = this is either said with an angry tone to denote “yes, and I’m not happy about this”, or a high pitched one to denote “Yes! You are exactly right!”Uh-uh = NoHhhmmm = Yes! [...]
There’s no place like home to be birthed
Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com
Another hospital birth post
After posting a link to this post about hospital birth from Navelgazing Midwife, I thought I’d link this post from Sage Femme, who is also a midwife, just so we can see how remarkable the other birth really was.
Why couldn’t my hospital birth have been this awesome?
Read this blog entry if you want to see what a hospital birth should be like, and could be like, if all doctors (and CNM’s) were as wonderful as “Dr. Wonderful”. And he’s a MALE OB! I guess I can’t call them sOB’s anymore
The Birth Survey’s Pilot Launch
Tomorrow, July 21st, there will be a birth fair in New York City. This birth fair will kick off the pilot of The Birth Survey, a project I have been involved in for about six months now. If you go to the The Birth Survey web site and click on About Us in [...]
Did you know that birth could be like this?
An Unassisted Childbirth
Unassisted Childbirth
No machines that go beep, no nurses snatching the baby away from you after it’s born, no doctor clamping and cutting the cord immediatly, no ones hands on you or in you, no scissors coming at you, no oxygen masks on your face or cords screwed to your baby’s head, no laying [...]