1) Nursing Birth. You've got to read her "Don't Let This Happen To You" series!
2) The Man-Nurse Diaries. Be sure to read his recent post about nearly bleeding to death from a cesarean section. The cesarean was scheduled because of a breech presentation. As I've been preparing to do research for a presentation at the International Breech Conference, I've been thinking a lot about the ramifications of having a breech baby in today's medical and legal climate. Universal cesarean section is not the best solution to breech babies. I hope that this conference will result in more doctors and midwives offering vaginal breech birth.
Anyway, here's my current list of birth-related midwife, nurse, and doctor blogs (taken from my sidebar). Are there any other good ones that I'm missing? Are any of my links outdated? I haven't had time to check them all recently.
Thanks for including me on your list. It brings me pain to hear that woman had to submit to a cesarean because the baby wouldn't turn vertex. Good luck at your presentation.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including me. I'm a half midwife, half doctor blog. I have trained halfway in both careers. Hopefully I will finish one soon!
ReplyDeleteYou got almost all of my birthy blogs from my reader. I also read The Blog That Ate Manhattan. She is an ob/gyn, but spends more time on gyn than ob, generally.
I also read Mothers in Medicine (and I have guest posted on there:) ) It is a community of many mothers-who-are-doctors bloggers.
Rixa, Thanks so much for the link! I've been working on my next "Dont let this happen to you" about a primary "elective" cesarean section. Thanks again!
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www.nursingbirth.com
Thanks for the links! I just spent the past hour pouring over nursing birth. What a fascinating blog. It was also chilling. When I was pregnant the first time, I was terrified of giving birth in a hospital, more afraid that of the labor itself. Good to know it wasn't an irrational fear. . .
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ReplyDeletehttp://obnurse35yrs.wordpress.com (Melissa)
ReplyDeletehttp://realityrounds.com (Anonymous nurse)
http://www.scienceandsensibility.org (Amy Romano, CNM)
http://healthewoman.org (Shelley Binkley)
http://www.kevinmd.com (Kevin Pho)
Thanks for the great list!
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ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing these links. I especially loving Nuringbirth since I am also an LD nurse who believes that the current medical model of birth leaves much to be desired.
Alethea
Thank you for some great new reading! I appreciate all the additional ideas from the comments, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inclusion! I'm quite honored to be mentioned next to Nursing Birth. And thanks for a list to dig through, too.
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