Whenever I pull Michel Odent's book Birth Reborn off the shelf, it feels like phoning a dear friend after a long absence. We catch up o...

English obstetrician Benjamin Pugh (1715-1798) is best known for inventing curved obstetric forceps and for his 1754 book A Treatise of Midw...

Announcing our newest baby K. Kawai, measuring 6'8" (2 meters) and weighing in at a whopping 772 lbs (350 kg). We found a lovely ch...

My most recent discovery while digging through medical archives: a 1901 British Medical Journal article about about breech presentation by ...

Image from Giving birth--the most dangerous thing an African woman can do? In resource-rich countries, the debate about how to best del...

This gorgeous upright breech birth is worth the time to watch. The mama had originally planned a home birth, but transferred in labor to a h...

This letter explains why I want vaginal breech birth to remain a viable option for all women. It was originally written to a member of the  ...

I discovered two maneuvers for assisting frank and footling breeches while wading through PubMed literature on breech from the 1950s. I'...

The Association of Ontario Midwives is sponsoring a physiological breech birth workshop with Shawn Walker on Sep 11 & 12 in Toronto. Pa...

From the Birth On My Terms Project at Texas A&M University: Were you coerced, forced or pressured to have a procedure(s) during labor...

We came home from France last Thursday night and left the next morning for a 9-hour drive up to my parent's cabin. We blew one tire on...

I just finished translating an excerpt from a French article that examines the interplay of medical information and patient choice in breech...

Last day of school in France...lots of tears this afternoon.

Here's a little gem I just unearthed from a 2004 article about vaginal breech birth in a tertiary hospital in Trinidad . In the conclusi...

Two Sundays ago we visited a friend in Puget-Théniers, a little mountain village an hour away. Dio puked on the way up and Ivy almost did, b...

I have discovered several recent articles about autonomy, informed consent, and forced/coerced interventions during childbirth that I highly...

While translating this  French article about nonfrank breech birth , I came across a reference to the "Vermelin method" of breech ...

This reminds me of a Dr. Seuss book... I can give birth in a car I can give birth in a bus in a yurt with the caul with my mom A car ...

Dear pregnant readers--I need your help! I need a photo of you, with your gorgeous pregnant belly, posing like Alexander Hamilton. Posed jus...

Sometimes doing research is really, really boring. Other times I come across gems like this 1961 Lancet article titled " Management of ...