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• Don’t know your exact due date? That will be $2,100.

  
  MomsRising Blog — Authority: 131
  Click Here to See Video! A few months ago, when I was starting my third trimester with my second child, I finally resolved our hospital bill for our first baby. She was born in the fall of 2007. I was hoping we’d have better luck the second time around, but it wasn’t to be. This video is the story of our ...
  9 hours ago

• Pot(belly), Meet Kettle

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From From THINK PROGRESS : Ensuring that insurers don’t reject any American for health coverage because of a pre-existing condition is a top priority of the public . Republicans have repeatedly said that they also want to make this change, but in the alternative legislation they released, Americans with ...
  1 day ago

• Articles of Interest

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  I have a lot of projects going on lately that are taking precedence over blogging here in a frequent or creative way (I am pregnant with my third baby and recently started teaching college classes. I also teach birth classes on a regular basis, homeschool my two boys, etc., etc., etc.). Bear with me and in January I ...
  5 days ago

• Doctor couple does wonders for tribals at Sittilingi

  
  The Better India — Authority: 395
  Sittilingi is a remote village in Dharmapuri district, 125 km away from Salem town in Tamil Nadu, which used to be a god forsaken land caught under the spell of quacks and black magic. Noisy drums and fake injections were all that they had to resort to curing illnesses. This is when Regi and Lalitha took the plunge. ...
  1 week ago

• Low-Tech Models of Participatory Medicine: The Astounding Results of Group Prenatal Care

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 485
  A signal moment in the history of this blog was the arrival in late summer of a new ally, the birthing movement, represented by Amy Romano, the blogger at Science and Sensibility , the Lamaze International blog. Amy gets it: participatory medicine is not just about the internet – it’s about being empowered and ...
  1 week ago

• House health care reform bill good news for women

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  The House health care bill (pdf) unveiled by Democrats this week would make the world of health insurance a whole lot better for women. “There’s so many great things in there that will go a long way toward helping women and their families get access to affordable, high quality health care and eliminating all the ...
  1 week ago

• Roundup: Is Abortion a Deal Breaker?, Righting the Discriminatory Wrongs in Health Care Reform, Too Late for Nadya Sulyeman

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  Is Abortion Access A Deal-Breaker In Health Care Reform Efforts? In The Hill s Congress Blog yesterday the question, "Could abortion be a deal-breaker in health care reform?" was posed to a group of legislators, advocates, and commentators. While the newest incarnation of The Affordable Healthcare For America ...
  1 week ago

• Does It? Really? “WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence for Recommending a 10-15% Caesarean Limit”

  
  Science & Sensibility — Authority: 118
  This is the title of a Medical News Today piece , actually a re-posting of a press release from a coalition of websites that promote elective cesarean surgery. The press release claims that the 2009 edition of the WHO’s “ Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook ”  has rescinded its 1985 recommendation ...
  1 week ago

• Maternal Mortality Graph

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  I found this image on the BOLD blog and found it very striking and wanted to share it here. -- Molly CfM Blogger
  2 weeks ago

• OBs denying doula access: Where’s the SCIENCE!!!1!?

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  Can someone show me again the SCIENCE!!!1! behind denying access to a doula during maternity care? Here are a few excerpts of papers I found, mixed in type (quantitative research, qualitative research, meta-analysis, review), on doula care. Emphases are mine. The effect of a supportive companion on perinatal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insurance Lobby: Just Trust Us!

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 516
  Rattled by their failed effort to kill health care reform, Karen Ignagni, the head of the health insurance lobby, took to the Washington Post today to claim, no, really, we love reform, trust us! Let me be clear and direct: Health plans continue to strongly support reform. In fact, last year we proposed new ...
  3 weeks ago

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