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- Amy Tuteur, MD
- Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1979 and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. Her book, How Your Baby Is Born, an illustrated guide to pregnancy, labor and delivery was published by Ziff-Davis Press in 1994. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com.
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- "Social" inductions improve outcomes
- Ina May Gaskin has blood on her hands
- Should doctors trust patients?
- Surprise! Banning deliveries before 39 weeks isn't...
- What's the difference between smoking in pregnancy...
- 6 homebirth deaths, endless regrets
- Whom to trust on medical issues: doctors or everyo...
- What to reject when you're expecting? Consumer Rep...
- Unassisted birth: surprise second twin suffers bra...
- Pediatric ER Doc: homebirth 5 minutes from the hos...
- A question for homebirth advocates
- We ask mothers the wrong questions
- Are you Mom enough?
- Don't want to be a birth visionista? How about a s...
- "Just watched a newborn die in front of my eyes."
- The gift we can give each other for Mother's Day: ...
- Whoopi Goldberg on breastfeeding
- Homebirth advocates take another page out of the t...
- How does your midwife really feel?
- You can be a birth visionista! Sign up today!
- Robin Elise Weiss, prove it or remove it
- Classic homebirth midwifery screw-ups
- I am so not judging you
- Idaho homebirth disasters not about tension, but i...
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- What lactivists and sex education opponents have i...
- Katie Granju smears feminist Elisabeth Badinter
- Cesarean section as a narcissistic injury
- Are the young children of mommy bloggers "fair gam...
- The Narcissist Breeder: You can't be friends with ...
- Idaho homebirth midwives responsible for 3 neonata...
- Birth experience more important than whether baby ...
- Dr. Amy on Fox Charlotte
- No, the Birthplace study did not show that homebir...
- A loss mother has questions for Ina May Gaskin
- Idaho homebirth practice presides over 3 neonatal ...
- Homebirth midwives on "a sparkly path of destructi...
- Trouble in homebirth paradise
- Oregon homebirth midwives sued for $50 million
- An alternate world of internal legitimacy
- Homebirth midwife requirements "tightened" to incl...
- A tale of two births
- Why are you bragging about your breech homebirth?
- The homebirth playbook for lobbying legislators
- Real mothers burn the umbilical cord
- Homebirth, immaturity and risk taking
- Since when is it physiological to have a retained ...
- Janet Fraser: Why not an unassisted coroner's inqu...
- Is labor longer? Does it matter?
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