In a controversial new statement, the American Academy o f Pediatrics (AAP) published a new policy statement on female genital cutting which suggested the possibility of doctors being allowed to perform a small, pinprick “ritual nick” in place of the more severe forms of female genital cutting (FGC). FGC is a fairly common practice among [...]
…just to illustrate the bind that the homebirth midwives find themselves in at the moment after the closing of St. Vincents hospital and the subsequent loss of their back-up hospital/ written practice agreements (see yesterday’s post): Last night I was working (at the HHC public hospital in Brooklyn where I spend a good deal of [...]
This is from Brownstoner, via NewYorkShitty. Found in McCarren Park, Williamsburg, NY. Totally cracks me up!
St. Vincents hospital was the most homebirth-midwife friendly hospital in Manhattan, and quite possibly in New York City, period. It was certainly the only hospital in Manhattan which accommodated homebirth and homebirth midwives. My own midwife delivered her patients there, and she would often comment to me about what a lovely set-up they had at [...]
Hi, long-lost ladies and gents! I’ve been highly incognito, as the lack of action on this blog can attest to, and the legions of Viagra spammers took advantage of this and basically knocked my blog out of commission, buried under mountains of spam (of course, the fact that I hadn’t upgraded my WordPress version in [...]
I’m sorry for the shape this blog is in at the moment. The Beloved Boy is trying to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, and it’s wreaked havoc on my links and topics sections. Hopefully we’ll get things back to normal in the next few days. Stay tuned. div.vPNicTJXnd {height: 0pt;width: 0pt;position: absolute;overflow: auto} [...]
It’s snowing here, but here’s a little piece of news that will warm the cockles of your heart. As we all know, there was a big stink over at Facebook awhile ago when they banned the pictures of nursing mothers, which then led to the formation of the facebook group Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding is Not [...]
Let’s face it: the economy sucks right now. We haven’t yet hit rock bottom, and it’s going to be awhile (probably a long while) before things begin to recover. In the midst of this harsh financial reality, companies and industries are scrambling to find ways to save money. Birth activists have been trying for decades [...]
This is a site I found through Women’s Health News, but I felt it really deserved a post all its own. A midwifery student decided to take a picture of her cervix every day for one entire menstrual cycle, and the pictures are absolutely amazing. I want to print them out and show them to [...]
It seems like every other blog/magazine/newspaper is putting together gift guides these days, so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon too and put together a gift guide for the hard-to-shop-for midwives/ doulas/ lovers-of-birth in your life. Granted, this guide sort of reads as a list of some of my favorite things, ever, but hey….why [...]