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US Maternal Mortality Ranking

May 10, 2008

 
I find it mildly satisfying to note that the countries with the highest level of midwives in maternal care have the lowest maternal losses. Then I am saddened to see our country on the same plane as South America, parts of Africa and the more “un-modern” countries of eastern Europe.

I cried when i read this…

February 29, 2008

 So much of this story is like my Luke’s story. He was dx’d with autism spectrum disorder at 20 months of age. “Early” the pdeiatrician said, and I had to fight like you-know-what to even get a referral for a developmental pediatrician then. I knew something was wrong a few months earlier, after his 15 [...]

Contact Information

January 15, 2008

Boy, am I having a “DUH!!!” moment. Contact information for the VBAC stories!
You may email me at birthbeautifully@gmail.com with any questions or your story. Sorry I left that out of my previous post!

This is me…

October 10, 2007

When asked what I am in college for, I answer, “I want to be a…
 

Pushed: Modern Childbirth

October 5, 2007

Here is an excerpt from my most recent read:
IF YOU GO to a hospital in the United States to deliver your child, you will probably do so flat on your back — thought by many to be the worst possible position in which to give birth short of being hung by the feet. You have [...]