Tweet Ever since I wrote the post This is Batshittery, I remain appalled and aghast at the continued support the homebirth community offers to killer midwives. At the time, I received several comments along the lines of, “Don’t lump us together with those extremists!” or “They really aren’t getting THAT much support.” Unfortunately, the more…
Tweet This story has been making the facebook rounds, with predictable response in…certain groups:
Tweet I personally have no idea what kind of mother Beyonce is. When I first read she was pregnant, I figured she’d be a lot like the rest of us: she would love her child deeply and want the very best for her. Now that said infant has arrived, however, it has come to light…
Tweet I heard a nasty rumor for the third time yesterday: that the Legacy hospital system and Legacy Emmanual in particular have an unwritten policy of refusing to report sentinel events resulting from homebirth transfers and that they discourage their nursing and medical staff from doing so as well. Now, the first time I hear a…
Tweet You may remember the Whaaatt? post regarding birthing at home with placenta previa. If you need to refresh your memory, it’s right over here. As it turns out, the original page is the gift that keeps on giving. Birth Without BS posted a link for discussion on her facebook page, and many people were…
Tweet Yes, that’s right. If that baby needs anything more than skin-to-skin contact and breastmilk, then you should apparently just let him die. I don’t know what’s more disturbing: that someone actually typed this out or that NINE TWENTY ONE other people said, “Hey! I like that!” (original post) Only slightly less disturbing: the woman…
Tweet ETA: In a spectacular twist of irony, it turns out that Mom 1 below is Brenda Scarpino-Newport, whose negligence and anti-hospital rhetoric contributed to the death of Mary Beth Chapman. Happened across this little gem on a blog called “Mothers With Cancer.” Allow me to translate: Mom 1: “I have cancer and I’m…
Tweet Oh, and before I get all the comments about how I’m shoving all NCBers in the same box…she may be the only one who would VBAC unassisted with a 99% chance of uterine rupture, but she sure isn’t the only one who thinks scientific evidence is bunk. The good folk at Unhindered Living…
Tweet **note** My apologies for the lack of a baby in the picture. None of the ones I drew actually looked like a fetus, so I gave up. Placenta previa is a very dangerous condition for both the mother and the baby. It occurs when the placenta covers the cervix — causing either complete previa…
