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Pitocin Is the Star of ‘One Born Every Minute’

I’m watching Lifetime’s One Born Every Minute and while I love love love seeing a beautiful baby being born and the joy that comes in that moment I want to jump through the television and give some...

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Ina May Gaskin: Birth Matters, Farting Does Too

I want to create an altar to worship the great Ina May Gaskin, mother of midwifery, right now, but I’m going to try to compose myself to write about my experience seeing her at the Warsaw in Brooklyn,...

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Birth Isn’t Scary. You Know What Is? A C-Section

I can’t stop thinking about my Ina May Gaskin experience and of course it’s all the more in my head because I am reading her book, Birth Matters. And the more I think about certain points she brings...

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My 3-Day Natural Labor and Home Water Birth

When expecting your third child, you think you know exactly how and when the baby is going to come. You’ve had some practice, and this baby can’t be that different. So of course it’s surprising when...

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Can C-Section Moms Say They ‘Gave Birth’?

I go back and forth and back and forth in my silly little head about all the what ifs and maybe I should’ves when it comes to the birth of my twins. Ya’ll probably know the deal by now since I wrote...

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C-Section Me-Smecktion … Hey There’s Something to That!

I was staring into the air and thinking about c-sections. Yes, this is what I sometimes do when I get that look and drift off into that space in my head when my eyes go blurry. You know what I mean?...

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HELLP Syndrome: The Pregnancy Complication No One Talks About

Have you ever heard of HELLP Syndrome? I hadn’t until I was laboring for four hours in the hospital and something went wrong. I was feeling woozy and got up to go to the bathroom and realized I was too...

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Mayor Bloomberg is Taking Away Bottles — Say What? Here’s What It’s Really About

Yikes. After the announcement came out that Mayor Bloomberg had plans for a proposal to make changes to how formula is offered in hospitals came out, some amazing headlines popped up: Should Baby...

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