Strollerderby : ricki lake

Best of FameCrawler: Week of December 5th

Whit Honea — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Tom Cruise Has Creepy Ideas

What's In Christina Aguilera's Locket?

A-Rod Cheating on Madonna With Melissa Britos? (Photos)

Matthew McConaughey Going Bongo in Brazil

Britney's Hidden Messages: Bringing New Meaning To The Term 'MILF'

MC Breed Has Died

Gwen Stefani and the Men in Her Life - Photos

Jennifer Hudson's Brother-In-Law Arrested For Murder Of Family

NBC is Pissed: Britney Cancels Performance at Last Second

Clay Aiken is a Push-Over

From Fat To Fab: Ricki Lake Lost 140 Pounds!

Guess Which Gossip Girl Is Pregnant?

They Say: Doctors Have Feelings Too

Amy Kuras — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:32:00 GMT

Hmmm, maybe they are not coldblooded perpetrators of the "birth-industrial complex" after all: One in 10 obstetricians have been sufficiently impacted by the stillbirth or neonatal death of a baby they delivered that they have considered giving up their practice, and three quarters said they had profound anxiety, guilt and stress over such negative outcomes for their patients, according to a University of Michigan study of more than 800 OBs.

As somebody whose kids were both birthed via c-section, one emergency, one not, I am not a fan of the Ricki Lake-esque earthy-birthies in the first place. I've got no beef with midwives, homebirth, natural childbirth or anything else that lets someone give birth the way she wants, but I expect the same respect accorded to how I chose to give birth. I'm willing to concede the point that birth doesn't need to be medicalized, but some of us just do feel more comfortable with someone who went to school a lot longer than we did keeping an eye on things.

And aside from the smugness and belittling of other mothers for making dfferent decisions, my other major issue with the earthy-birthy crowd is this reflexive distrust of doctors. I was lucky enough to sort of stumble into a great OB and have heard some awful stories from others who weren't so lucky, but what this story reinforced is that most of them aren't unfeeling scalpel-wielders but people and professionals who want good outcomes for their patients.

Babble Talk: Ricki Lake

editors — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:44:00 GMT

With the national release of her documentary The Business of Being Born, Ricki Lake is getting a new round of reviews (from glowing praise to immature "ewww..."s) and scandalized coverage (she's naked! in a bathtub! giving birth!). We spoke to Ricki and her director back when the film was making the festival circuit -- check out the Babble interview here.

Ricki Lake's New Documentary About Home Births Is All About Her

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Ricki Lake's new documentary The Business of Being Born is premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival and her publicists have been working overtime to promote it. From interviews on the Huffington Post to this little gem in New York Magazine, it's all about ~~the shortcomings of hospital births~~ Ricki Lake.

Ricki Lake wants us to know that she had a natural child birth at home in her tub. Naked. She wants us to know that her publicist told her that she needed to lose weight if she was going to film her naked water birth so she lost 24 pounds. (But looks "better now," she adds. You know, naked.)

Ricki Lake also wants us to know that after giving birth in her tub (naked), she made her assistant clean it. I'm sorry but what kind of selfish beeyotch makes an assistant clean up a bathtub soiled with amniotic fluid, blood, and afterbirth?

Apparently the assistant "still talks about the experience" to this day. Shoot, if I had to touch Ricki Lake's placenta juice, you bet I'd still be talking about it. Let's just hope Ricki Lake paid her or him a wad of cash. Perhaps Ricki Lake should consider changing the title of movie to The Business of Being an A-Hole.

[via Daddy Types]