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Holy crap. Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center has a 45.5% C-section rate. See all other CA hospitals here.

Yesterday, I was angrier than I’ve been in a long time.  But I realized that anger can be a good thing – it can be motivating & stir you to action. There is a wonderful farm in Pennsylvania that has the most delicious raw milk I’ve ever had.  I’ve been craving it and can’t wait […]

Ha.  Wow.  So someone pointed me to this article, about a French woman who says that  babies are “tyrants” and thinks having a life is more important than raising your children. (And Jezebel’s take on it, which I’m surprised I missed.) Honestly, I expected to hate it and before I read more than the first […]

I have a friend – someone I’d met in Prague – who is pregnant and has been battling her doctors to try for a natural birth.  She’s pregnant with twins, which, to many OB’s means automatic c-section because, quite frankly, OB/GYN’s no longer have the skills to deliver twins (the same with breech babies.)  Literally.  […]

What NOT to expect when you’re expecting, #7: Don’t expect your provider to be interested in evidence: In What To Expect When You’re Expecting, the author warns readers not to risk being sued by their OB doctor.  Jill, at The Unnecesarean, described this scenario eloquently in a recent blog post. It’s difficult to imagine a […]

Regarding/continuing my last post and moms who “choose” to pump exclusively versus breastfeeding – CHOOSE being the operative word, because it’s more “convenient”. (My husband just said “That would be like saying people choose the “convenience” of hooking themselves up to an IV opposed to eating a sandwich!”) One of the other points that was […]

This article in Time Magazine was brought to my attention (and thank you!).  Apparently choosing to pump exclusively instead of breastfeeding in on the rise and this article pissed me off on so many levels.  No woman in her right mind would CHOOSE to pump over breastfeeding, if breastfeeding were possible.  And reading this, I’m […]

It turns out that when I have “free time” (which qualifies simply as Nugget being a very happy & easy child and willing to just hang out and chatter while I do whatever I want), I really don’t know what to do with myself.  I need to get some new web projects in, STAT. Anyway.  […]

Someone (you know who you are, and THANK YOU, this is awesome!) sent this to me the other day – it’s a video of a family talking about giving their infant son raw milk instead of formula. It’s so nice to see other people spreading the word, and more people doing the same things I […]

I’ve been jumped on for admitting that not only do I give my son goat milk but unpasteurized goat milk – and I’ve been “informed” of “things I might not know” as if I hadn’t thoroughly researched it and given it serious consideration.  ALTHOUGH. Wonderfully, I’ve also heard even more from people who were raised […]

The big news in the birth world today is that “Too many women are dying, giving birth, in the US.” A report was published a few weeks ago, showing that it was safer to give birth in Bosnia than in California (seriously.)  Now this came out, from Amnesty International, showing some pretty serious & horrifying […]