The Skeptical OB

The folks at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists should be profoundly ashamed of themselves. They have participated in the ...

On its website, Midwifery Today features a timeline entitle The History of Midwifery and Childbirth In America . The timeline extends from 1...

Homebirth, and natural childbirth advocates insist that "Peace on Earth Begins With Birth." That's not what my research shows....

Republican Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri reminds me of certain natural childbirth advocates. When asked whether he opposes abortion in cases of...

Hi, I'm Jen, lay nuclear physicist . I just returned from the gynecologist and I am so pissed off. I went for a routine annual visit and...

Compare and contrast: Mother #1 ... So yes, I had preeclampsia and I needed to have my baby in the hospital just in case something went wron...

Natural childbirth advocates have been caught, proverbially, with their pants down. After making the specter of posttraumatic stress disorde...

In light of yesterday's post about " birth defeat ," I thought it might be worthwhile to revisit the issue of whether "tr...

Over the next few hours I'll be working on installing a new comment system. That may result in difficulty being able to access the domai...

Here's a term I haven't heard before: birth defeat. As in What the heck happened? Still dealing with birth defeat... It's been n...