http://www.bellytales.com The Diary of a New Midwife Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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: ... http://www.bellytales.com/2009/01/05/under-construction/ 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 ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/12/31/lactivists-v-facebook/ 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 ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/12/30/recession-relief-midwifery-saves-money/ 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 ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/12/08/my-beautiful-cervix/ 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 ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/12/08/midwifery-gift-guide-2008/ This is an interesting story about how difficult it was for a woman to obtain Plan B from Walgreen's, over on the Consumerist.  Apparently the folks at her local Walgreen's in Oxford, MS, tried to insist that she wait for one hour before getting the Plan B, as well as ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/12/02/plan-b-available-but-still-not-easy-to-get/ One week after our historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, here's a very interesting article on what his presidency might mean for Women's Health (of the non-"airquotes" variety), namely improved access to birth control and sex education (i.e. the federal government no longer ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/11/newsworthy-111108/ Midirs Midwifery Digest, the premiere midwifery publication in England, has recently posted an interview with Ina May Gaskin, one of the fouding midwives of The Farm and an international midwifery leader and homebirth midwife.  The podcast of the interview is available here, and the written version can be found here.  ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/11/05/ina-may-on-midirs/ Last night was a very strange night. It wasn't that busy, and yet, somehow, neither the other midwife nor myself were able to take a break. The pace was very steady. We kept expecting it to settle down, but it never did. Just as we were thinking "oh, as soon ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/10/28/just-a-hemorrhage-kind-of-night/ As reported by the Daily Kos, a rigorous new poll shows that Measure 11, South Dakota's latest attempt to ban abortion, might not pass as easily as everyone originally thought.  South Dakota's initial attempt to ban abortion in 2006 was defeated by 56% to 44%, mainly because the bill included ... http://www.bellytales.com/2008/10/25/new-hope-for-south-dakota/