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• Placentas Washing Up in Illinois Sewer

  A public health administrator in Champaign, Ill., is asking that whoever is dumping fresh born plancentas into the local sewage system to, you know, stop it. For the third time, workers at the local water treatment plant found afterbirth caught in a filter designed to keep large foreign objects (including human organs!) out of the treatment facility.   Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 06:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: homebirth, midwives, midwifery, public health, public birthing clinics, placenta disposal, illegal midwives

• South Dakotans Don't Support Home Birth. Or Do They?

  As the economy continues into the toilet, there seems to be a growing push to consider increasing the use of midwives (both hospital and home birth, nurse-midwives and certified professional midwives) as a way to cut down health care costs. Of course, it's being met with a predictable backlash from doctors screaming about how dangerous home birth is. In South Dakota, this time around, the doctors won . . . Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 05:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: midwives, midwifery, home birth, doctors, stupidity, CNM, CPM, Axel-Lute, obstetricians, South Dakota, certified professional midwives, nurse midwives

• TV Producer Seeking Urban Home Birth to Film

  Producer Zach Marion is looking for someone planning have a home birth and due in January or early February to add to the birth stories in an upcoming Discovery Health Network show promoting midwifery and home birth. Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 04:28 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: tv, privacy, midwifery, home birth, fame, Discovery Health Network, House of Babies, camcorders, videotaping birth, Zach Marion

• U.S. Birth Centers in Danger of Closing

  Everyone likes a best of both worlds solution, right? For many pregnant women, birth centers provide just that. Read More... Posted Dec 18 2008, 04:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: birth, hospitals, midwives, midwifery, health insurance, medicaid, hospital birth, schip, congress, birth choice, birth location, CMS, birth centers, American Association of Birth Centers

• Midwives to Daschle: We're Cheaper and Better

  The folks at The Big Push for Midwives are organizing to try to get upcoming HHS Secretary Sen. Daschle to make one of the community meetings on healthcare he attends one that they are holding in Missouri to discuss reforming maternity care. Read More... Posted Dec 18 2008, 11:30 AM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: midwives, health care, midwifery, maternity care, health insurance, obama, infant mortality, tom daschle, HHS Secretary

• Taking the Midwifery Cause to . . . Postage Stamps

  You've likely heard about the whole Stamps.com thing where you can order honest-to-god postage with your own photos on it. Apparently they get touchy if you try to put anything "randy" or political (at least antiwar) on them though. Happily for supporters of midwifery, however, the good folks at Stamps.com don't know just how political the choice of a birthing attendant can be. Read More... Posted Nov 06 2008, 06:30 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: stamps, midwives, marketing, photography, fundraising, midwifery, birth choice, ACNM, postage, American College of Nurse Midwives

• Would You Let a Midwife Perform Your C-Section?

  Well, would you? What if she had trained for four years as a midwife and performed more than 100 c-sections under the eye of an actual surgeon? Still no? Well, maybe me too. I don't know. But! I have the good fortune of not ...   Read More... Posted Jul 16 2008, 02:14 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: PBS, c-section, midwifery, home birth, mozambique, training midwives to perform c-sections, wide angle, infant mortality rates, birth around the world, maternal mortality rates, midwifery in the u.s., legalizing midwifery

• Unassisted Birth -- Help Me Out

  When I read stories about women who opt to give birth at home allllll by themselves -- no help from a midwife or a doctor or a staff of nurses -- I think to myself, "can you blame them?" I know, I know, a lot of you are thinking these people are just trying to be heroes or adhere to some kind of radical hippie code that shuns any relationship with established authority. Or you think they're narcissistic idiots who put their own childbirth dreams above the health and safety of an innocent child. Homebirth moms get that kind of talk too.  But I think all that's wrong. Quite wrong. Pregnant women in the U.S. are in this totally weird position ...   Read More... Posted Jan 09 2008, 05:46 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: hospitals, homebirth, dangerous, midwives, DIY, child birth, hospital, c-section, midwifery, Modern parenting, midwife, home birth, natural child birth, hospital birth, home, bleeding, diylife, natural alternatives, hospitalization, unassisted childbirth, caesarean section

• U.K. Gives Laboring Moms More Options for Pain

  I assume most adults, parents or not, know there is more than one way to give birth. There’s vaginal delivery, with or without the epidural, there’s c-section, planned or emergency. There’s birth at a hospital, birthing center, convenience store or at home. We make our choices, we have our babies. Problem is, this list is hardly exhaustive ... Read More... Posted Oct 18 2007, 07:25 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: homebirth, childbirth, pain medication, c-section, midwifery, Madeline Holler, epidural, U.K. moms

• Pregcellent: You Couldn't Pay Me Enough To Have a Home Birth

  There's a thing in the Daily Mail about the pros and cons of home birth, and it's all pretty darn pro. I can see that. I mean, you get to avoid the unnecessary birth interventions that can happen in hospitals, and if you want to have your baby at home, you'll probably be more relaxed in that environment. I have some friends that went this route very successfully. I fully support the right of women to give birth at home or in a pool or a treehouse or wherever they feel most comfortable, with the exception of rush hour traffic. That said, even though I was probably the recipient of some unnecessary medical interventions...   Read More... Posted Oct 10 2007, 03:01 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: midwifery, labor and delivery, home birth, hospital birth, pregcellent

• Strollerderby Playdate: Homebirth/Midwife Edition

  From Rikki Lake, to this video, to a new law in Wisconsin, home birthing and midwifery are all over Babble and Strollerderby.  It's got me reminiscing... When I got pregnant with my older daughter, my husband (then fiance) and I were still living with Brandy, world's best roommate and midwife-in-training.  Brandy was a wealth of resources on everything from home birth, to water birth, to labor coaching, to pregnancy in general.    Ultimately, I chose a hospital birth, with an epidural about 10 hours into it - thank god - but I was well-informed enough to know how to speak my mind and take charge of my birth experience, thanks to the information and support that Brandy provided me with.  I wish everyone could have their own Brandy (hey - if you live in Ashland, OR, and are pregnant, you can!  Email me!) - but since not everyone can, these home birth and midwife blogs will substitute nicely. The Homebirth Debate Sage Femme   Navelgazing Midwife Homebirth Diaries    Posted May 07 2007, 07:03 AM by Alisyn with | with no comments Filed under: midwifery, home birth, Stroller Derby playdates

• Lay Midwives Win Right To Practice In Wisconsin

  Wisconsin has just become the 25th state in the US to legalize the practice of lay midwives. The first license has already been issued by the state, and in addition, the new law allows midwives to practice without being involved in a formal health care practice. Lay midwives are often as experienced as their degree-holding counterparts, but they have had to fight for recognition and the right to practice their vocation openly. Nurse midwives are praising the legislature's decision as a validation of the midwifery model of care for women's health. Approximately 1100 babies were born outside of hospitals in Wisconsin last year, and those numbers are expected to rise with the new regulations. 25 states down, 25 to go!  Posted May 03 2007, 12:27 PM by Patti with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, laws, midwives, women's health, midwifery, Wisconsin, midwife, birth announcements

• Independent Midwifery in England May Become Obsolete

  Half my children were born attended by a midwife, and for me, having this choice made a huge difference in the birth experience both for me and for my children.  I can't imagine having had this choice and then having it stripped away by well-intentioned but nevertheless not well thought-out (read: stupid) governmental regulations, but pretty soon if current government plans in England to require professional indemnity insurance for all midwives goes through, lots of would-be parents are going to be left with fewer choices when it comes to catching their babies.  Midwives employed by the National Health Service (NHS:  the U.K.'s publicly-funded, "free" health care system) won't be affected, but the NHS is overworked, underfunded, and understaffed, leaving a strong need for independent midwives to relieve the pressure and provide service for parents and babies.  Efforts are being made to come up with a suitable alternative for the independent midwives, but it may end up being a case of "too little, too late".  And I'd like to know what English parents will do then. Posted Mar 12 2007, 01:06 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: england, insurance, midwifery, stupid governmental regulations