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• "Laboring Under An Illusion:" RH Reality Check Talks to Filmmaker Vicki Elson

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 686
  Childbirtheducator and documentary filmmaker Vicki Elson likes to say, aside from thetypical hospital birth, there are essentially three kinds of births ontelevision: "One type is a pioneer woman or early Native American just pushing her baby out, no problem. Another type is an accidental birth on an airplane, in ...
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• Book Review: The Power of Women

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 119
  The Power of Women By Sister MorningStar Motherbaby Press, 2009 ISBN 978-1-890446-43-7 201 pages, paperback, $29.95 http://motherbabypress.com/ Reviewed by Molly Remer, MSW, ICCE http://talkbirth.wordpress.com Occasionally, a book comes into my life that touches me so deeply that I am at a loss for words. The ...
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• Radical Doula Profiles: Aya de Chellis

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 114
  Aya de Chellis is a radical queer Reproductive Justice freedom-fighter. As a doula she is available to listen and share ideas and comfort techniques that would be helpful to any person. The communities that Aya most often works with are young people, communities of color, Spanish-speaking Latina immigrant women and ...
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• Doulas: meddlers in the maternity suite or a mothers best friend?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  More and more women are relying on doulas - hired birthing assistants - to help them in labour, but doctors and midwives remain sceptical. Laura Donnelly reports
  2 weeks ago

• Grit.tv takes on birth politics

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 114
  There is a great segment on Grit.tv about childbirth in the US, featuring Debra Pascali-Bonaro (my doula trainer!) of the Orgasmic Birth documentary. “The Bellevue Hospital Natural Birth center in Manhattan, one of the few centers that cater not to the wealthy but to poor women, closed this month amid ...
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• Radical Doula Profiles: Michelle Bell

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 114
  The newest in the Radical Doula Profiles series is Michelle Bell! If you’re interested in being part of the profile series here at Radical Doula, email me . About Michelle: I currently run a private practice where I am part of a collective ( Ann Arbor Doulas ). I also offer volunteer services as a postpartum ...
  2 weeks ago

• Healthy Birth Blog Carnival #3: Bring a loved one, friend, or doula for continuous support

  
  Science & Sensibility — Authority: 112
  We’ve been featuring each of the Six Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices in our series of blog carnivals, and this time we’re talking about labor support. Healthy Birth Practice #3 is, “ Bring a loved one, friend, or doula for continuous support .” A national survey of women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Volunteer Program Spotlight: Family Health and Birth Center, Washington DC

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 114
  In order to highlight the work of the great volunteer doula programs around the country, I’m going to have guest posts from folks involved with those programs to talk about their work. The first guest post comes from Katie Daily, who coordinates the volunteer program at the Family Health and Birth Center in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Take A Picture With Palin For Only $15 • Man Married To Video Game Takes It On Honeymoon [Leftovers]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 805
  • Cameras and recording devices have been banned from all of Sarah Palin s book tour appearances, but a spokesman announced people can pose with her and buy a copy later online for $15 and up. • • Her official photographer has posted many of the pictures on Palins Facebook page, along with the credit "The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doula Article

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 119
  Felt the need to post a link to this article about doctors objecting to doulas in the birth room. The champion opening line was what hooked me: "Like some ancient wounded creature, the male medical establishment occasionally lashes out in uncomprehending fury at patient-led developments in medical care that ...
  3 weeks ago

• INeverGrewUp Sponsor Doula Melissa

  
  I Never Grew Up — Authority: 427
  Sure, you know this beautiful woman as RAW MELISSA (and the maker of the most delectable vegan macaroons known to man), but did you know she is also known as DOULA MELISSA ? Yes, Melissa is a certified doula and has worked with hundreds of pregnant and birthing women and their partners. She is all about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cherrypicking stats: bad form and not helpful

  
  Science & Sensibility — Authority: 112
  Science & Sensibility contributor, Andrea Lythgoe , has a great post up at her own blog. In The Doula Numbers Game , Andrea shows that many of us may be overestimating – and overstating – the beneficial effects of continuous support from doulas. She argues and I agree that using outdated statistics that ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Doula for Everyone Woman Who Wants One

  
  Empowering Birth Blog — Authority: 91
  Every woman who wants a doula should have one but what happens when a family cannot afford a doula? We NEED volunteer doula programs like the one at the Family Health and Birth Center (FHBC).  Please share this post with friends.  (I should add that I had wonderful prenatal care at the FHBC during my second ...
  4 weeks ago

• Are you a radical doula?

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 114
  If you identify as a radical doula, I want to hear about it! I also want to profile you for my radical doula profiles series. Just send me a quick email with a few sentences about why you identify as a radical doula and I’ll get back to you with the process for being part of the series. My hope is that this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reflective Thought

  
  Adiaha — Authority: 115
  It is the season for reflection. The spring and summer have boomed and faded and what is left is cold and barren. It is the natural order of things for life in the Mid-Atlantic. I have asked myself, as I do everyday, what am I grateful for. Somewhere on my list, is my home birth. My home birth means so much to me ...
  4 weeks ago

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