Yikes. After the announcement came out that Mayor Bloomberg had plans for a proposal to make changes to how formula is offered in hospitals came out, some amazing headlines popped up: Should Baby Formula Be Hidden In Hospitals To Force Moms To Breastfeed? Mayor Bloomberg Says Yes LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER AND MAYOR BLOOMBERG PROVES [...]
Tags: birth, bottles, breastfeeding, formula, health & medicine, hospital birth, mayor bloomberg
Have you ever heard of HELLP Syndrome? I hadn’t until I was laboring for four hours in the hospital and something went wrong. I was feeling woozy and got up to go to the bathroom and realized I was too dizzy. It was almost instant — a rush of really not right feelings taking over [...]
Tags: HELLP syndrome, preeclampsia
I was staring into the air and thinking about c-sections. Yes, this is what I sometimes do when I get that look and drift off into that space in my head when my eyes go blurry. You know what I mean? Oh, you don’t? Oh. Oops. Okay. Scratch that then. But I was thinking about [...]
Tags: c-section
I go back and forth and back and forth in my silly little head about all the what ifs and maybe I should’ves when it comes to the birth of my twins. Ya’ll probably know the deal by now since I wrote about it a lot — preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, almost had a stroke, was [...]
Tags: c-section
When expecting your third child, you think you know exactly how and when the baby is going to come. You’ve had some practice, and this baby can’t be that different. So of course it’s surprising when you realize how untrue that is. My second child made her appearance after just 4 hours of labor, at [...]
Tags: baby, birth, breastfeeding, labor, natural, pregnancy, water birth
I can’t stop thinking about my Ina May Gaskin experience and of course it’s all the more in my head because I am reading her book, Birth Matters. And the more I think about certain points she brings up, the more I understand, the more I realize how some of us are overly-sensitive and missing [...]
Tags: c-section, natural birth
I want to create an altar to worship the great Ina May Gaskin, mother of midwifery, right now, but I’m going to try to compose myself to write about my experience seeing her at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, sitting in the front row, center. She was there promoting her new book, Birth Matters: A Midwife’s [...]
I’m watching Lifetime’s One Born Every Minute and while I love love love seeing a beautiful baby being born and the joy that comes in that moment I want to jump through the television and give some people epidurals in their face. I was prepared to feel this way. I was warned. But I was [...]
Tags: birth