Posts by Buzzbuzz

While that list of questions is interesting, it is of limited use, because it doesn't include any information about what the responses might actually mean.   So, you ask your midwife if she attends breech and twin...

"None of them strike me as unsound if they are just general statements meant to be encouraging."   I don't know how you can take these as "encouraging" statements.  In some cases, these are statements of medical advice...

And as for researched based, I note that the website you link to states:   "Midwife-attended home births are as safe as hospital births, with the benefits of fewer intervention and infections, more support, and greater client...

Excuse me?  I would note that this website was recently listed, together with such other websites as the Feminist Breeder, as one of the top midwifery blogs out there.  The blog is hosting an important discussion about...

This has good links about the various qualifications of different types of midwives, etc.   http://safermidwiferyformichigan.blogspot.com/2012/12/choose-safe-midwife.html  

We have a refrigerator in our basement that went on the fritz in the early morning hours of Thursday.  We left the food in the fridge with the door shut during the morning and a repairman came around 1 and got it running again (or...

We cut off liquids immediately after dinner and went for a 1.5 to 2 hour window between last liquid and bedtime.  Potty at the beginning of the getting ready for bed process (she had to go to the potty and sit...

There was an episode on "Call the Midwife" on PBS where the mother has undiagnosed eclampsia.    While I certainly wouldn't recommend you watch it, maybe seeing something like that would help your DH put the issues at...

I thought the way that castor oil supposedly acted to induce you was by dehydrating you?  I understand that dehydration is a risk factor for preterm labor.

"So, my questions are: How safe is home birth? If more women of color or low-income women were able to have home birth, would that helped to decrease the negative mother and infant health outcomes faced by women of color? I understand...