It’s interesting that ACOG is only interested in collecting stories of out-of-hospital births with poor outcomes… what about all the women who give birth in hospitals who otherwise would have had a completely normal labor and delivery but for the hospital procedures, unsupportive staff, and resulting stress?  There are wonderful OBs and great hospitals, but [...]

If you have a blog or website and are a natural childbirth advocate, I have created a new page called Advocacy where I have rotating ads as well as printable PDF flyers for your use and distribution.
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There are two things women generally believe about OBs:
1. Their OB would never do anything to put them or their baby in harm’s way,
2. If their OB gives them a drug, or recommends a procedure, that’s only because the benefits outweigh the risks.
Unfortunately, both of those things are not always true.
Women often say that they [...]

Last week I wrote about a hospital reduced it’s use of Pitocin and found that their emergency cesarean rate decreased.
Then today I run across this new term “Pit to Distress” at unnecesarean.com:
“Pitocin is used like candy in the OB world, and that’s one of the reasons for medical and legal risk,” says Carla Provost, assistant [...]