Women are strong

That quote I see frequently… “We have a secret in our culture… and it’s not that birth is painful.  It’s that women are strong.” (Laura Stavoe Harm).
Well, it’s TRUE!
I was honored to witness a mom VBAC last week.  The words that come to mind are Amazing, Beautiful, and Magnificient.  I choose to see the beauty [...]

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Expanding the Birthing Rights Conversation through Legal Scholarship

This definitely seems worthy of passing along!  Please do forward this information for the benefit of birthing mothers everywhere.
I am pleased to present the first-ever NAPW law student writing contests to expand the birthing rights conversation. Attached, you will find a more detailed description of the contests and how you or your organization can become [...]

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This process

It’s interesting… how “real life” impedes on indirect knowledge. If you read online long enough, (some) natural birth advocates may (seem to) say that all interventions are bad. I myself used to lean that way. And yet now, I am sometime seeing it is those interventions that we eschew that can allow [...]

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To VBAC, or not

This is posted on the Business of Being Born website: ACOG Responds Regarding VBACs, I Respond Back. I tell you, it boggles my mind that American women are told they don’t have the right to the birth of their choice. Many women with prior Cesarean(s) have been forced to undergo major abdominal surgery [...]

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