Facebook is deleting pictures of placentas. They are generally being flagged as “violent imagery”. I am at a loss to understand how a placenta, a product of birth, a bringer of life, can in any way be construed as “violent”.
Birth itself can be violent. Women have been strapped down (whether with actual restraints or [...]

Just came across this great article, Delayed Cord Clamping Explained!(Video) written by Christie Haskell, which includes a video of Penny Simkin explaining the physiological benefits of delayed cord clamping- very cool little video.  I have wanted to blog about delayed cord clamping for awhile, it is the first opportunity to honor [...]

This is a followup post on the situation at Summerlin Hospital in which a nurse called social services on the parents of a newborn baby girl with a mild level of jaundice. If you need background on the case, you can read my original post with the press release.
We held a peaceful rally in [...]

Once again, hospital staff decides that it knows what is better for a child than the parents. A nurse on staff at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas reported the parents of a newborn to social services and had the baby held at the hospital without parental consent, simply because the parents opted for an alternative [...]

By now I hope you have had the chance to read a fantastic blog post written by Gina Crosley-Corcoran, entitled “I’m Birthing at Home and Eating My Placenta, and I Swear I’m Not Even a Hippy“. If you haven’t, head on over to The Feminist Breeder’s Blog and give it a read. I found it [...]

I just received this press release from The Big Push for Midwives campaign.
I’m so shocked that the anti-home birth and anti-midwife spin machine is swinging into high gear now that we’re set to make some progress in protecting midwifery.
** sarcasm alert!**

International Expert Calls Study Deeply Flawed and Politically Motivated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 7, [...]

PBi-Trained Placenta Encapsulation Specialists, McKenzie Casad and Nicole Link-Troen spent their Mother’s Day Saturday in a unique way, surrounded by and educating new mothers! The pair of specialists from Washington, DC and Richmond, VA, respectively, teamed up at the Oh Mama! Yoga Birth & Baby Fair in Richmond, VA.
This expo was primarily a fundraiser in [...]

By Guest Blogger, Leigh Anne DuChene
The Mothers Act and Health Care Bill is a prescription for disaster for postpartum mothers!
This bill works to get anti-depressants, and who know what other kinds of drugs, into the hands of new moms before they leave the hospital.
The package labels on antidepressants states that the risk of psychosis while [...]

Patricia Couch, a midwife at the Bella Vie Gentle Birth Center in Salem, OR, is gathering donations for supplies and will be going down to Haiti on February 19 with the organization Midwives for Haiti to help pregnant women devastated by the earthquake. If you would like to support her efforts, please call Bella Vie [...]

My first daughter was born in a birth center, and I was grateful to have the option. While I did not use Medicaid to pay for our care, birth should be reimbursed by health insurance regardless of where it occurs - home, hospital, or birth center. By only reimbursing for hospital births, the health industry [...]