Jane is a college friend of mine who blogs at Seagull Fountain. She has three children and is expecting again. She's thinking of doing t...

My google reader alerts are going haywire with the news of Gisele Bundchen's home water birth last December. She had a water birth in h...

I had the pleasure of interviewing filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro about her recent documentary Orgasmic Birth (please see my review of the ...

It seems like I just posted Dio's 8 month update...Here's a picture from today. He can crawl backwards (while trying to go forward...

Progressive Pioneer --a favorite new LDS mama blogger of mine--is hosting a giveaway of a Hypnobabies home study course. Click here to ente...

...and it looks like this: This loaf of bread rose so vigorously during baking that a "tongue" burst out of the side. Zari thoug...

In the middle of the night I woke up to a strange sound next to me. A grinding sound, like stones in a rock tumber. What was going on? I did...

Today's history moment comes from Dr. Eucharius Rösslin's wildly popular pregnancy advice book The Rose Garden for Pregnant Women an...

Dio's two top teeth are coming in. We've noticed an increase in crankiness over the past few days, while the teeth are just cutting ...

We've heard the term "pregnancy police" used figuratively, to mean people who try to police pregnant women's behavior with...

My sister-in-law "Mary" had her baby a few days ago! You might remember her from our post-screening conversation about Orgasmic Bi...

ACOG & AAP jointly publish Guidelines for Perinatal Care . The first edition was published in 1983, and the 6th in 2007. I was unable to...

Four good things happened today.   #1: Guess? We bought another house! It's a 1900 Victorian that has been converted into a triplex...

My last post about the Borning Bed reminded me of a correspondence I had a few months ago with an assistant dean at a large state medical c...

I came across this lovely ad from a 1983 issue of the Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. Doesn't it make you just want to go an experience phys...

A message from ICAN president Desirre Andrews: Dear friend of ICAN, I am very excited to announce our January educational webinar, an on...

Zari, Dio, and I are all sick (deep, racking cough and fever). So all I've been doing for the past few days is hold sick kids in my lap,...

A few days late...we've been busy with family.  The predominant theme this month is how big Dio is. Every day we get more comments and...

It's a quiet Christmas evening here. We have a few feet of snow on the ground. All of the children are sleeping, except Zari (she's ...