Nowadays the Way Women Give Birth!
Nowadays the way a woman gives birth is complicated…it involves frantic travel…machinery…blinky lights and beeping noises…as well as a support staff of 4 or 5 people maybe more…and happens in a ’sterile’ environment.
Yet it never occurs to us to ask ourselves, Have our bodies really changed so much?
And do we really need [...]
Some Thoughts on Men at Births!
This from an e-mail exchange I had yesterday:
Hey Heather
I have a few musing of my own on the issue of fathers at births.
I wouldn’t say as others have, “I never could have done it without him” because quite frankly, I’m sure I could have done it without my husband there!
I wonder if the issue isn’t [...]
The Way Women Gave Birth…
At the beginning of time the way that women gave birth was simple…for a woman’s first birth she would be quietly and unobtrusively attended by their mother (or a mother-figure)
But for her next births, the woman would prepare a quiet, secluded spot and once labor started she would go there…and birth her babies [...]
Michel Odent didn’t write the article…!
So apparently the Daily Mail thinks it’s appropriate to write ‘by’ when it’s a piecemeal pile of snippets from an interview…
This Just In:
For the record, Michel Odent would like you to know:
About the pages in Daily Mail, first I was not the author of the article. It was written by a journalist after an interview [...]
Woah! Michel Odent on Men at Births…
This was sent to me a couple of weeks ago, but got moved to the back burner by the Time magazine article…but, here it goes: A top obstetrician on why men should NEVER be at the birth of their child (Thank you Carolyn and Claire!) I have many many thoughts, most of which I’ll [...]
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