January 2016

How safe are home births for mothers? By Eugene Declercq Reposted from CNN website – Monday, January 18, 2016 {also birthday of my first baby, a daughter born in the backseat of our family car in 1964, in my attempt to get to the hospital too late for them to use many of the same […]

Topics include: Wax et al meta-analysis ~ an extremely controversial study published by the obstetrical profession that claims to have immutably established the danger of midwife-attended PHB using a cohort of more than a half-million midwifery-managed births     American Joint Commission on hospital accreditation’s new ‘perinatal core measures’, is critical of the unnecessarily medicalized system of […]

Priceless video spoof: The Performance ~ Sex like Birth

by faithgibson January 1, 2016

You can read today’s post before or after you watch this amazing and very funny “R-rated” educational video. Personally suggest watching first. Just scroll down a few inches to watch the 7-minute Italian video “The Performance“, or you can go to YouTube. Be sure to keep watching until the very end — the “kicker” comes at 6 min: 29 […]

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