Birth Center for Sale or Lease in Virginia

I’m passing this along on behalf of Julie Martin, CPM, LM. She is relocating across the country and needs to sell or lease her birth center and midwifery practice. Feel free to repost.
NATURAL BIRTH CENTER: Lease or Own
Could my challenging circumstance be another’s wonderful opportunity?
I opened the Natural Birth Center in October of 2007. [...]

Female Brain vs. Male Brain

I read these two articles, and thought they were just really interesting. Of course, it only makes sense that men and women are different — not just their obvious physical differences, but also how their brains are different, and process things differently.
While these two articles don’t talk about pregnancy, labor, or birth, some of the [...]

Hospital vs. Home Birth on Dr. Phil

Changed my mind — this sounds like an awful show! Click here to go to the current page where he’s wanting people to be on the show if they regret their decision to have a home birth. What, is he in bed with Dr. Amy or something? Here are the current criteria for guests appearing [...]

Windows in Space and Time

A Personal Perspective on Birth and Death, by Robbie Davis-Floyd.
Click here to read this powerful, moving article. Not only is the author an eloquent wordsmith, but she flawlessly encapsulates what is the grief process.
Her daughter died as the result of a car accident — she was thrown from the car when it flipped several times. [...]

I agree with Dr. Amy

Incredible! Never thought I’d say it! (Don’t worry — I won’t make a habit of it!)
Read this post on some blog of hers I just happened across about “How to lower the C-section rate.”
She suggests a no-fault compensation fund, which I’ve also read of elsewhere (I think they may even have it in [...]

Incredible!

Baby pronounced dead, spends 5 hours in the refrigerated morgue, and is still alive. At twenty-three weeks!
Shocker!

What happens to the umbilical cord?

This is one of the frequent search terms I get, and I don’t think I’ve fully addressed it, so will do so now.
First, a brief elementary look at the placenta, umbilical cord and fetus. Within a few days after conception, the embryo implants in the lining of the uterus; part of the “conceptus” becomes a [...]

Breech birth discussion and pictures

Go to Rixa’s blog to see what she has written, along with embedded drawings of a breech birth, and links to a footling breech photo-essay (fourteen minutes from emergence of the foot to the full birth) and the mom’s birth story. Awesome!

What a difference the care provider makes!

One of my “blog buddies” just had her second baby by C-section. She believes her first was an unnecessarian (or, at least, that it could have been avoided had her care been different leading up to the Cesarean), so she opted for an HBAC, and ultimately went to the hospital for a repeat C-section (after [...]

The Birth Survey

This is what we have needed for a long time, and I’m so glad it’s finally up and running!!
Go to The Birth Survey, where you can fill out a survey about your most recent birth experience (within the last three years). They do not collect any identifiable information, unless you choose to tell that information [...]