I am super excited to announce that I'll be coming to the BOLD ( Birth on Labor Day) 5th Anniversary event in New York City! Playwright...

Yesterday I read a fascinating--and somewhat disturbing-- New York Times Magazine article about twin-to-singleton pregnancy reductions. For...

Twitter phenom Feminist Hulk recently spoke with Ms. magazine about giving birth . Turns out she's a PhD student from the University o...

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Zari got kicked out of Sunday School today. I love saying that. And it's true. So here's the back story: we go to a 3-hour block o...

I love my new house, but I have a love-hate relationship with the yard. When we closed a few months ago, the property looked like a jungle. ...

It's been a whirlwind past few weeks. I applied to teach a section of freshman composition, got accepted, and have been in new faculty o...

A friend of mine (actually, the friend who helped introduce me to my husband!) just wrote to me with a request. She had a vaginal birth, and...

So many changes start once your baby reaches 3 months. In the last two months, Inga started laughing (first laugh at 3 1/2 months when I was...

Last summer, we traveled to Park City, Utah for a family reunion. The return flight from Salt Lake City was overbooked. We volunteered to be...

I solemnly swear not to write about breech...for a while! I've been a single parent this week while Eric has been on a research trip i...

Over at Academic OB/GYN, Nick Fogelson reprinted a letter from Oregon direct-entry midwife Jonie Dawning . Recently Oregon considered (but u...

I was just contacted by a couple from Halifax expecting their first baby, due August 2nd. The baby is frank breech and they have been unable...

Several months ago, I bought four yards of 18" wide vintage hand-printed Norwegian linen. It was very retro, and I wasn't sure what...

What a whirlwind weekend... It began Friday evening with a discussion session. Participants were able to ask questions of Peter and Betty-...

Guess who was invited to the upcoming Home Birth Consensus Summit ? Me! I am really excited to participate in this event. I am also curiou...

I learned several new vaginal breech maneuvers this weekend from Dr. J. Peter O'Neill, including the Vanna White Maneuver ("Don...

Please distribute widely! Click on the image to download the PDF flyer. Text-only version below. Upright Breech Birth:  What We Can Learn F...

My older sister, whose wedding we attended this May in DC , had a wedding reception at my parents' house yesterday. It was a lovely even...

We finished renovating our master bathroom, just in time to move. It looked like this before we started and like this in the middle of reno...