Vertical Birth

Here is the Vertical Birth video recommended by Debra Pascali-Bonaro from her Orgasmic Birth blog. Make sure you read Mariana’s blog. Mariana Bazo was the photographer for Vertical Birth. Wow. Come visit the blog. Spinning Babies Blog. www.spinningbabies.com

Orgasmic Birth showing in Minneapolis!

Birth Activists have banded together to bring Debra Pascali-Bonaro’s Orgasmic Birth film here to Minnesota, Thursday, September 25, 2008. The full length film will show one night only at the historic Riverview Theater. This post announces our new local website, www.MinnesotaOrgasmicBirth.com Buy your tickets online. They just may sell out. Business of Being Born sold […]

Midwife in Mozambique

PBS aired a compelling story about midwives learning to do cesarean surgery to fill the shortage of doctors in rural Mozambique. The young midwife featured is shown conducting a couple of repeat cesareans. One for a placental abruption for which uncontrolled bleeding leads to a hysterectomy. Another mother is given a repeat cesarean and she […]

Another risk of cesarean surgery

A 26-yr old woman was 8-weeks pregnant and experiencing some light bleeding. Her previous birth was by cesarean section. When an ultrasound was done to see the cause of her bleeding the technician could find no baby in her womb. Instead, the baby was developing in the separating edges of her cesarean scar! I wonder […]

Ricki and Jennifer Block the AMA

Isn’t it great how things line up sometimes? First, Betty-Anne Daviss and Ken Johnson lead the CPM 2000 statistical collection. The British Medical Journal published the good news. Canada and Britain took the results seriously and began improving their maternity care policies immediately. (Even though Canada has the best infant survival rate in the Americas. […]