Posts by IdentityCrisisMama

Quote: Originally Posted by Escaping  At 60 babies and $2,500 per baby, it doesn't really seem to me that the government would be squeezing midwives out of the system. There aren't many professions in Canada which...

Quote: Originally Posted by knoel  I could never chance it again and I could never recommend it to someone else.  Again, my pregnancy and delivery were very normal and uncomplicated, until she was born.  And...

Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzbuzz    This is one example of the sort of turf war I mentioned earlier (please note, story involves a number of baby deaths and includes...

Quote: Originally Posted by fourlittlebirds  I've been wanting to see this series! But we don't have television, and last I looked I couldn't view the episodes online. :/ We don't have television programing...

Sorry to hear that, OP. Hopefully this will be the first of a good long dialogue about you making the choices you feel are best for your child (and their grandchild) and that your parents will come to respect and understand that. 

Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzbuzz  With regard to "traditional midwifery practices" my point, which I appear not to have communicated well, is as follows: that there are practices which are generally...

Now I'm getting confused...   My coffee hasn't set in yet but I want to be sure that everyone knows that Buzzbuzz was being sarcastic in the quote above. As far as the edited quote (which should be edited out of any one else's...

I'm in the Baltimore Area, mama. We have a group of dedicated HB supporters working to improve access to homebirth midwifery care here in MD.    Here is a link to that political action...

I'm watching this English series called "Call the Midwife" and am really enjoying it. It's not a HB show because it doesn't really deal with the choice to give birth at home specifically but takes place during a time (1950's) and a...

I didn't love it either. Nothing really resonated with me.