Monthly Archives: June 2005

NYS Legislature supports Morning After Pill

By The Midwife | Published: June 25, 2005

Well, here’s a rare bright spot in the current too-scary world of birth control and women’s reproductive choices. While many other states are in the midst of restricting access, or passing laws that will allow their pharmacists to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions, New York State has done what I consider to be a […]

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Blessingways and Rites of Passage

By The Midwife | Published: June 24, 2005

I attended a fantastic workshop last week entitled Birth Altars and Blessingways: Using Ritual to Transform Birth, which really got me thinking about the major rite of passage inherent in birth, and how our society has a tendency to gloss it over with a thick veneer of materialism and call it a done deal. While […]

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You can still have a homebirth in NYC

By The Midwife | Published: June 8, 2005

Speaking of articles on labor and birth in the news, check out this lovely piece on homebirth in the New York Times: Home Delivery Is Availabe, by Anemona Hartocollis.

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VBACs only slightly less safe than repeat cesarean

By The Midwife | Published: June 7, 2005

Whenever news abour labor and birth hits the mainstream media, I sit up and take notice. The fold-out section on Women’s Health in this sunday’s New York Times certainly caught my attention, and while perusing it, I read the following tidbit in Eric Nagourney’s article about shifting health guidelines for women: Caesarean Birth There was […]

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