Because Of Your Weight, We'll Schedule Your Cesarean

Still find it hard to believe that fat women are being denied access to low-intervention care and are often railroaded into cesareans these ...

Check Out My New Post at Science and Sensibility!

On the childbirth blog, Science and Sensibility , there is currently an ongoing series about "obesity" and pregnancy.  All the usu...

Participatory Medicine and Why You Should Know About It

Amy Romano, CNM, posted a while ago on her blog about the "new" concept of Participatory Medicine , and recently commented on it ...

Elective Inductions and Elective Cesareans - No Big Deal?

Think elective inductions or elective cesareans are no big deal?  Check out the abstract of this recent study.  [And remember the higher rat...

Choosing a Birth Care Provider - Which Type?

Some online friends of mine wrote this article for their local paper.  I gave feedback and helped during the editing process, and liked the ...

Reply turned post: Ghettoizing Fat Pregnant Women

Kathy at Woman to Woman Childbirth Education has a good post on a recent article from the UK, discussing the banning of "obese"...