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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Midwife, nurse, and doctor blogs

I've come across a few new nurse blogs recently:

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 Are any of my links outdated?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.


  • 10 centimeters and beyond



  • A midwife's muse



  • Andrea's Diary



  • At your cervix



  • Australian College of Midwives SA branch



  • Babycatcher



  • Babycatcher33



  • Belly tales



  • Birthfriend's place to ponder



  • Close to the root



  • Gloria Lemay



  • Homebirth happens



  • Homebirth: Midwifery Mutiny



  • Hospital birth debate



  • Midwife with a Knife



  • Midwife: Sage Femme



  • Midwifery ramblings



  • Midwifery world



  • Missionary midwife mama



  • Missions of a baby catcher



  • Mom's tinfoil hat



  • My journey



  • N is for nurse



  • Navelgazing midwife



  • Nursing Birth



  • Permission to mother



  • PinkyRN



  • Radical midwife (in the making)



  • Rebirth



  • Rural doctoring



  • Somewhere south of the equator



  • Tales from a future OBGYN



  • The Man-Nurse Diaries



  • Village Midwife



  • Women in charge
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    10 comments:

    1. Denise Punger MD IBCLC6/3/09, 11:22 PM

      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.

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    2. MomTFH6/4/09, 10:09 AM

      Thanks for including me. I'm a half midwife, half doctor blog. I have trained halfway in both careers. Hopefully I will finish one soon!

      You 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.

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    3. NursingBirth6/4/09, 10:15 AM

      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!

      ~Melissa
      www.nursingbirth.com

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    4. Anonymous6/4/09, 12:53 PM

      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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    5. Alijah Fitt6/4/09, 1:47 PM

      take back the birth.blogspot.com

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    6. Jill Arnold6/5/09, 3:49 AM

      http://obnurse35yrs.wordpress.com (Melissa)

      http://realityrounds.com (Anonymous nurse)

      http://www.scienceandsensibility.org (Amy Romano, CNM)

      http://healthewoman.org (Shelley Binkley)

      http://www.kevinmd.com (Kevin Pho)

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    7. Sarah H6/6/09, 2:34 PM

      Thanks for the great list!

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    8. Alethea6/6/09, 4:49 PM

      Rixa,
      Thanks 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

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    9. The Blue Suitcase6/8/09, 7:30 AM

      Thank you for some great new reading! I appreciate all the additional ideas from the comments, too.

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    10. CD6/9/09, 7:07 AM

      Thanks 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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