I was eight months pregnant and packing. My husband and I were leaving Park Slope for Upper Manhattan’s Inwood.  I was excited to [...]

Blame modern hygiene, an industrialized food supply, an excess of antibiotics, or all of the above.  Collectively, we are driving more and more [...]

When my mother was pregnant with my brother P.J. - her fourth child -  she was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. [...]

After a Talk by Dr. Nils Bergman at New York University I. Neuroscience on the screen. A packed room of maternity care professionals. [...]

A ‘pregnant pause’ is a breath held in a story, a moment’s stillness where we linger between what has been told and what [...]

I’ve put together the following notes on homebirth transfers for parents, midwives and doulas in the hopes that some of the strategies and [...]

Nine days after she gave birth, April and her newly born daughter joined my moms’ group. They stayed until her daughter was 9 [...]

We understand that medical concerns may take precedent over our wishes, but we would like you to know what is important to us as parents [...]

(Originally published by Choices in Childbirth) Where and with whom should you give birth? With a midwife or an obstetrician? At home, or [...]

A birth by cesarean can be life saving.  We are fortunate to live at a time when this technology is as widely available [...]