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- Oubli's Vaginal Tear
- How to Choose a Birth Doula
- Responsibility
- Jason Collins Comes Out
- AAP's New Home Birth Guidelines
- Nursing School Worries
- Women Get High From Epidurals?
- Judging Birth Stories
- Eliott's Birth Story
- Eliott's Story
- Doulo
- Scathing Commentary About Oregon's OOH Births
- OT: How E2L is Going
- MediCal for California Licensed Midwives?
- Becoming a Monitrice
- Hernia
- OT: What's Hard About E2L
- OT: Eat to Live
- A New Accusation Against Dr. Biter
- The Feminist Breeder as Doula
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- Doulas at Unassisted Births
- Cesarean Scar: Graziela
- Amniotic Fluid Embolism Story
- Going for a Non-Stress Test/Bio-Physical Profile:
- The Irrelevance of Time:
- Let's Get Started Breastfeeding
- Brewer Diet Be Damned
- Mucus Plug
- Dripping Caul
- Hypnobabies Doula
- Do You Like Being a Mom?
- Trevor & the La Leche League Battle
- Dr. Biter in the Union-Tribune
- Biter Baby Death on the News
- Dr. Biter Judgement Posted
- NBC’s Treatment of the 2012 Olympics
- A Doula's Role?
- Gardenias
- Gentle Grandmothering
- Cesarean Scar: Emina's Story
- Making a Hospital Birth Plan
- Shifting from Pro-UC to Anti-UC
- CPMs, Don't Read This!
- Succinct Reasons CPMs/DEMs Need to Get Their Act Together
- Sarah's GREAT News!
- Radical Doula’s RHReality Check Article
- Vanessa's Good News!
- Sara's Good News
- Kendra Henry's Good News
- Philip
- Georgia's Nursing
- Hormonal Menopause
- How to Put Twins in a Moby Wrap
- Good News, Anyone?
- Biter Death?
- Binary Parenting
- Cesarean Scar: Star
- Reigning in the Renegades
- Reader Question: CPM or CNM
- The SOB
- Spanking & Mental Illness
- Cesarean Scar: adrienne's cesarean scar story
- Placentas in the Igloo
- Cesarean Scar: Kathryn
- Guest Post: From an Ex-(CPM)Apprentice
- What Influence?
- Dead Breech Babies
- Cesarean Scar: Sarah
- HBACs
- "Stretch"
- "Crowning"
- "Mucous"
- "Placenta"
- "Primal"
- "Baby"
- How to Interview Your Midwife’s References
- Did You Have Your Membranes Stripped?
- Neonatal Resuscitation: Crucial Skill for Your Midwife
- The Miracle of Peanut Balls
- Midwives I Have Loved
- The Ethics of Facebooking a Birth
- Labor Taking Longer Today
- Cesarean Scar: Mandy's Story
- Cesarean Scar: Ashley E.
- Cesarean Scar: Jamie
- Cesarean Scar: 3 Babies; 3 Scars
- Cesarean Scar: My Scars Are Loved
- Cesarean Scar: Joy
- Cesarean Scar: Heather A.
- Cesarean Scar: Faye
- Cesarean Scar: Kate
- Cesarean Scar: VBA3C
- Cesarean Scar: Amelia
- Cesarean Scar: Kay
- Cesarean Scar: UK Reader
- Cesarean Scar: Peggy
- Cesarean Scar: Payton's Mom
- "Big, Healthy Babies"
- Cesarean Scar: Cj's Story
- Cesarean Scar: Ashley
- Cesarean Scar: Laura
- Cesarean Scar: Jennifer
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous
- Cesarean Scar: Stacey
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous
- Cesarean Scar: Lori
- Cesarean Scar: Kristina K.
- Cesarean Scar: Heather T.
- Cesarean Scar: Nicole
- Cesarean Scar: Sarah W.
- Cesarean Scar: Reyna
- Cesarean Scar: Lorie Porter
- Cesarean Scar: Erika
- Cesarean Scar: wolf
- Cesarean Scar: Kelly
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous 4
- Cesarean Scar: Elizabeth
- Cesarean Scar: Sarah S.
- Cesarean Scar: Sarah
- Cesarean Scar: Marilyn H.
- Cesarean Scar: Emily Richardson
- Cesarean Scar: Jess
- Cesarean Scar: Colleen
- Cesarean Scar: Tara Davis
- Cesarean Scar: Katie
- Cesarean Scar: Mandy Renfro
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous (2)
- Cesarean Scar: Anonymous
- Cesarean Scar: TM
- Cesarean Scar: Paige's Birth Stories
- Cesarean Scar: Paige
- Cesarean Scar: RL
- Cesarean Scar: Samantha Venn
- Cesarean Scar: Shannon Tells M's Birth Story
- Cesarean Scar: Shannon
- Cesarean Scar: Heather R.
- Cesarean Scar: L.
- Cesarean Scar: Sarah V.
- Cesarean Scar: Nastassja H.
- Cesarean Scar: Kim - 11/11/05
- Moving CesareanScar.com
- Waterbirth Revisited
- Doulas & Advocacy
- "Questions to Ask About Homebirth"
- Medical Board vs. Dr. Biter
- "Big Healthy Babies"
- The Cursor
- Responsible Blogging
- What Should a 4-6-Week Miscarriage Be Like?
- What I've Seen Up to Now
- Extract This
- Beth's Hemorrhagic Miscarriage
- Mingling
- What a Doula Said
- Rapunzel
- Hiatus
- Meghann Nursing
- Bouncing Atoms
- Tokophobia Comment
- Guest Post: Max's Birth Story
- Mindfulness
- Dear New Midwife Blogger,
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Finale)
- My First Homebirth (as a witness)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife: Skills Training
- Dr. Biter as Licensed Midwife?
- Letter from "Midwife to Be" Attendee
- Midwife to Be "Midwifery School"
- Droplets in the Ocean
- Glass Shards of Diabetes
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Part 5)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Interjection)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Part 4)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Part 3)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Part 2)
- Interviewing a Homebirth Midwife (Part 1)
- Birth as Art
- Guest Post: Jamaican Birth
- Peek Into My Writing Head
- "Granola-ier Than Thou"
- Birth Shame
- Amendment to Not-So-"Wonderful" Investigation
- 37 Percent
- Suddenly...
- I'm a New Grandma!!
- Choices
- Meghann's Virtual Blessingway
- Ignorant Bliss
- Guest Post: Licensing Midwives
- Dandy Commentary Continued
- Why Licensing is a Dandy Idea
- Constipation with Breastfed Poop?
- Amber Plyler Changes Her Mind
- Why I Left Homebirth Midwifery
- What ARE the Risks of Vaginal Birth?
- This is "Dr. Wonderful"?
- What ARE the Risks of Cesareans?
- Vaginal Shame
- Sacred Trust
- Hands & Knees in Labor
- "Curb Your Brats" - Commentary
- Breast Milk Storage Hints
- Hilarious Comment
- Casa de Nacimiento Closing
- What People Say to Pregnant Women
- Mmmm... Meat for Your Newborn!
- Circumcision & Nursing School
- Disclosing Homebirth Plans to OB
- Using (Extremely) Out-dated Studies
- 99 Percent
- Babies in Bloom GBS Redux
- This is Informed Consent?
- What a New Mama Needs
- What to Bring to the Hospital
- What If?
- What Does This Look Like?
- "Away We Go"!
- 1906 Placenta Previa Treatment
- How do you subscribe to this page?
- I Believe...
- "An Obstetrician's Lament"
- Thoughts on "No Woman, No Cry"
- Congratulations, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge!
- Touring LDRs Around the Country
- Pampers Ad (H2o Birth!)
- Practicing What I Preach
- 1986 Birth Plan
- 2009 Cesarean Rates in USA
- Guest Post: Roots of Birth Abuse
- Birth Activists -together!
- Lorell Bentley
- J.D. Kleinke's Book Signing
- Jen Kamel - VBACFacts
- Jill - Unnecesarean
- Me & Amy Romano
- Birth Abuse
- Tokophobia Comment
- Meet My GrandDAUGHTER!
- That Frustrating Part of Mommyhood
- The Hospital Tour Lady Said What?!?
- Mama Midwife
- Peace
- Transition (before my birthday)
- Birth-y Women
- LifeWrap
- Materna Medical "Device"
- Guest Post: Molly Remer on Hospital Routines
- Active Pregnancy
- Pointless Hospital "Rituals"
- Placenta Accreta After Cesarean
- Comment to "Are Home Births Safe?"
- Guest Post: Doula-ing for Cesareans
- THE Video
- Exposition Trail: Intro
- Doulas... LISTEN UP!
- L&D Nurses... (& midwives, doctors, doulas, etc.)
- Seizing Her Day
- Intensity Captured
- Oh, yeah, BABY!!!!
- Thoughts on "One Born Every Minute"
- Terrible Feelings Surrounding Letdown?
- Guest Post: HBAC Story from CNM's POV
- Did You Transfer/Transport to the Hospital?
- Really? REALLY?
- Hypocrite in the Middle
- The Irony of Privilege
- What Are Your Worst Fears in Pregnancy?
- Preface to Birth Rape Piece (questions)
- Facebook or Blog...
- Defining Mid/Medwife
- I'm a Proud Mama!
- Banning Cameras at Birth
- When Choosing an OB...
- Capitalization
- Midwife to Monitrice
- Light Switch
- Describe Your First Parenting Crisis
- Charting: Whose Truth?
- What was the weather like the day you had your babies?
- How pregnant were you when you found out you were pregnant?
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell REPEALED!
- Silvia Frank's Obituary
- FB Inquiry: What Christmas Carol Drives You Bonkers?
- FB Inquiry: Does your family drive everywhere?
- The Ripping Apart of Natural Birth
- FB Inquiry: What was the BEST decision you made as a parent in 2010?
- What to Wear to a Funeral
- Prenatal Pole Dancing
- Grinding to a Halt
- In Honor of Silvia Frank
- The Post List Grows Longer
- Thoughts on “When a Homebirth Doesn’t Happen”
- Abuela Passed This Morning
- Abuela's Baby Boy Shares His Thoughts
- Candied Yams - photo recipe
- Comment to “Ummm… not so much”
- The Hospital Tour
- Comment for "Home Birth Plan"
- Spam
- Love Letter
- I Owe You One
- Earlier/Faster/Better
- Inhale & Imprint (a letter from a mother to her daughter)
- My Nana (circa 1982)
- New Friends (1986)
- What Kind of Cereal Do You Have in Your Pantry?
- When Is Help Not Help?
- "Babies"
- Two Types of Moms
- Transition
- What Did You Crave?
- Diamond Marks the Spot
- Mea Culpa (through my fault)
- When I'm Asked a Question
- "No Woman, No Cry"
- "Homebirth Awareness Week"
- NaBloPoMo (one day late already!)
- Bites
- My Doctor Said *What*?!
- Note re: Umbilical Cord
- Who Are You Calling an Intactivist? (Guest Post)
- Original F-Word Post Removed (to make way for Jen's post)
- Removed F-Word Post
- Come Out! Come Out! Whoever You Are.
- Babywearing
- Quiet Blog Carnival - Anyone Out There?
- Blog Carnival: Midwifery & Racism
- 25 Words
- Birth as Yoga
- Clear-Headed
- Mama & Baby Tattoos
- "Be Honest"
- My Frog
- The Bloggerhood (as seen from my window)
- Resuscitation Board
- Taking a Fat Woman's Blood Pressure
- (small) Pet Peeve: HIPAA
- Barb’s Advice to Quell GDM and/or Humongous Babies
- Open Season: you have been warned
- Separatism: conflict amongst the ranks
- Did ACOG (finally!) Take Their Meds?
- Doulas & Homebirth
- Dr. Biter Speaks Out (finally!)
- Why Doctors Don't Care
- Kent's Gay, Already
- Those Darned Shoelaces
- My GBS Consent Form
- Chlorhexidine/Hibiclens Vaginal Wash Info
- Fat Obstetrics
- What do YOU think is important?
- When She's Soft
- To MommaKT @ Nonsense!
- So, What's the Deal with Dr. Wonderful?
- Being Un-Midwife'd: Beyond the Butt-Hurt
- Doulas and Mourning
- (Introducing) CesareanScar.com
- Old Nursing Pics - circa 1980's
- Nursing After Surgery - 1986
- IUD in a Placenta
- Elevated Uterus (graphic)
- Open Abdomen During a Cesarean (very graphic)
- Jaundice (Hyperbilirubinemia)
- Visualizing Jaundice in the Newborn
- (Re-post) You Buy the Hospital Ticket...
- What I learned watching the NIH VBAC Conference
- The UC Oxymoron
- Why Midwives Ask for Payment
- CBAC Processing
- Random Thoughts on (VBAC) Informed Consent
- What do we do with the GDM study?
- Birth: 1987
- The Science of Woo
- How to Show You Are Serious About Becoming a Midwife
- I Just Want Women to Think!
- Food, Inc. (& more)
- My Media Release
- Labor: A Visual Guide
- Pitting Edema
- A Visual Tour of an Non-Stress Test
- Observing Fetal Position (without one's hands)
- Amnion & Chorion
- Trailing Membranes
- Vernix
- Baby Born in the Caul (Amniotic Sac)
- Splitting Up "Teaching" Posts
- The Placenta (& Amniotic Sac)
- Close-up View of Umbilical Vessels
- Effect of Shoulder Dystocia on Baby's Face
- Bruise from Vacuum Delivery
- Velamentous Insertion of the Umbilical Cord
- Tongue-Tie
- Birth Balls
- Ugly (in L&D)
- Mongolian Spot
- Let's Read This Kids' Book Together
- cyber-Ask a Midwife (my new venture)
- Birthing Fat: Insulin
- Birthing Fat: Background
- Dr. Amy’s Comeuppance
- Denialism
- Hospital Birth In Progress on the Web
- Avoid H1N1 with Vitamin D Supplementation
- MedFake: Hospital Birth Gone Awry: Is This Typical?
- Medscape Article - 9/29/09 - Slamming Homebirth -again-
- How Homebirth Helps Avoid the H1N1 Virus
- What Doesn't Feel Right, Isn't
- Re-Writing Progress (odd)
- Re-writing...
- Just because it's the standard of care...
- Hibiclens Discussion (for GBS+ women)
- Birth Guilt
- ACOG’s Homebirth Blame-Game
- Old Time Obstetrics
- Putting My Things in Boxes
- Considering a VBAC?
- Blog and a Movie
- Apprentice Midwife Material?
- Newborn Spanish Mishaps
- "Business of Being Born" Viewing 5/27/09
- Open Letter to YouTube
- Comments...
- VBAC Birthing
- "Freebirthing"
- My Postpartum Depression (1987)
- What's This? (Oh, my neglected blog!)
- Dr. Wonderful Comes Out of the Closet
- Precipitous HBAC
- Anyone Know a Dr. Wonderful?
- Me & Oprah: How Oprah is Teaching Me About My Self
- My Foot's Healing (update)
- Beautiful Birth with Dr. Wonderful
- Extreme 20/20: commentary
- Happy New Year!
- Prenatal Visit w/ Help from a Kidlet
- Vitamin D & Cesarean Risk
- Home (Birth) for the Holidays
- Surgical Trip
- Awww, Nuts!
- Screw It!
- For HoneyBunnyLove
- Surgery
- Baby Pics
- Belly Time
- Henry VIII
- Hee-sterical Prop 8 Video
- What I'm Working On
- Oh, for crying in a bucket.
- Obama-ma Boom
- Template Letter to President-Elect Obama re: National Licensing of Midwives
- Open Letter to President-Elect Obama
- In my lifetime...
- New Family Photos
- What Happened to...? (Follow-up to Birth Plans)
- Ink Birth
- Michael Flatley
- Updated Birth Plan Template
- Memorial Service Reading
- My Daddy's Passing...
- Let's Chuckle for a Sec
- Gentle Thoughts Needed, Please
- Misc. Learning Pictures
- Breast Cancer Army of Women!
- Let's Talk About Obama & Abortion (put your shields up!)
- What's in a "Yoni"?
- VBAC (with a whiff of pit)
- My Puppies
- View From Above
- Orgasmic Birth
- Questions & Answers: Homebirth Birth Plan
- Doing Swimmingly
- Metatarsal Mania
- Sending It All Packing
- Water Works
- Palin Pall - Family is NOT off-limits
- It's September...
- Article on Elective Cesareans: Some Thoughts
- Welcome to My New House
- Learning SquareSpace
- I'm Offensive...
- Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Stress Test Passed
- Scaling Mountains
- My Daddy...
- Vitamin D & Its Role in Women & Children
- When Dogma Trumps Common Sense
- Post-Dates - Thinking Aloud/Allowed
- Discordance
- Response to ACOG’s & the AMA’s Homebirth Resolution
- Blog-sidings
- I'm Getting Married! (again)
- One Dose of Antibiotics...
- Laila Ali: Having a Homebirth!
- LLL Founder Gone
- Bridesmaids
- Sunny Disposition
- Cesarean Punishment
- Meghann's UC Birth Story
- Pain
- Ryan Bingham - Tonight Show Video
- Random Stuff
- Phenomenal Breastfeeding Story
- Deliver Me
- When We Don't Know Why...
- Respectful Trust
- Gay Marriage Ban Lifted in California!!
- Over the Shoulder, Baby Holder
- JOTT.com
- When Gossip Becomes Slander/Libel
- Where are My BlogSisters Going?
- Google Alerts - What's in the News?
- Skype, Anyone?
- Mexican Riviera
- Tristan's Birth - 1982
- Tristan's Birth - 1982 (con't)
- Irony
- Pregnant Man Talk
- Birdie's Mama...
- Shameless Plug
- Kneelingwoman's Post
- Foolishness & Mayhem
- WHO's Midwife
- Midwifery Education (Lite)
- Hungry Blog
- Do NBA Downplay Pain in Childbirth?
- Plastic Surgery Delusions
- First Breath
- Wait No More
- Three Generations Embrace
- Backlight
- Basking in the Sun
- Baby Today
- House of Puppies - Lilo's in Charge
- Horse Sense
- A Moment Away to Laugh
- Long Note to Students/Apprentices & Homebirth Advocates
- Leonard Nimoy & the Fat Chicks
- Vaginal Twins in the Hospital! (A "Celebrity!")
- To Give the "Teta" is to Give Life
- Christina Aguilera's Fears Disclosed
- Birth as a Work of Art
- Chicken Little
- The Best Response to ACOG Statement Yet
- The Gray, Grey Messenger - Gloria LeMay
- The Gray, Grey Messenger: Trust
- The Gray, Grey Messenger: Recovery
- "Calling All Angels"
- 11 Myths About...
- A Walk in the Sun
- "Scrubs" Star Births at Home!
- "10 Terrible Patients..."
- A Little Training...
- Wanted: eBay Junkie
- Christina's Soreness
- We Are So Lucky: Ghosts
- Meggie in Balboa Park
- Wedding Photographer?
- VBAC Study Worth Seeing
- About "Sanguineous Shock"
- Sanguineous Shock
- "Been looking forward to this day..."
- The Myth of the Vertex
- Christmas Eve Baby
- 5 Daughters
- St. Elsewhere
- Tagged - 7 Random Things
- Montage World!
- A Family Needs Your Love...
- Letters of Thanks to Dr. Wonderful - leave them here
- Open Letter to the Nasty Nurse
- Face Presentation Birth
- Random December Lights
- Another Feeling Surgery Post
- A General Anesthetic Story (for Tokophobics)
- Before "Flores"
- Flores
- Firey Sunset
- Helen Mirren & Tokophobia
- Breathing Ash
- San Diego Ablaze
- Coza, Where are You?
- “The Business of Being Born”: The Impact on Me
- Thighs & Lows
- How "The Business of Being Born" Is Going
- My Son & I
- Roosters?
- The View Out of Our Room
- Gorgeous Women of Hawai'i
- Poi Balls
- Strength
- Requisite Luau Picture
- Labor Ballet
- Reflection
- TMing
- Continuation Still on Race & Midwifery
- Race & Birth Issues (PiggyBack from SageFemme)
- We're Showing "The Business of Being Born!"
- The Next Time You're Nursing...
- Just Some Stuff
- The Business of Being Born - Review & Critique
- The Audience of The Business of Being Born 8/25/07
- When Is Help Not Help
- My Puppies & Iron-Rich Foods
- Puzzle: Help the Midwife (please!)
- Birth Plan - Revised (With OB Approval)
- Tagged - 8 Secrets About Me
- Birth Plan - Lemme Fix It
- Kisses
- Cuddling Up
- Thanking Dr. Wonderful
- Email Added to Site
- Let's Critique a Birth Plan
- A Birth Unfolds in Photos & Words
- My New Hair
- Vision Magazine Article
- Unassisted Birth Buzz
- Me & the Horse
- Angel
- Homo Fest & Big Love
- Squidoo, Anyone?
- Labor Bed
- County Drive
- Wedded Bliss
- Tidbits
- Labor Kitty
- Shame
- Working Posts
- Garden Laboring
- VBAC Success!
- Bloody HMOs
- Her Surgery...
- Firefighters & Surgery
- Some Nurses...
- Article to Read (About Cesareans)
- When Being a Mother Is Hard
- Writing
- The Moon & Gloppies
- I Was Blog-Sided
- Roxanne
- Uncircumcised Bat
- Eyes
- Out-of-Town
- Boogie Nights
- Dark Daughta Responds to Fat Talk
- Packaging
- My Nana's Bowl
- "How Women Become Mothers"
- Fat Angry Woman
- Me
- When Old Posts Find New Life
- Taking Things Personally
- Why I Blog (Tagged)
- A Piece of My Office
- Front and Centering
- LLL Love Story
- 21 Years Ago - Aimee's Birth Story
- Ricki Lake!!
- Driving Force
- Where is the Logic?
- One Tenacious Baby Mama
- TV Time
- My Secret Birthday
- In my emailbox...
- Fireworks
- Fireworks
- Fireworks
- Fireworks
- Fireworks
- Cinderella Castle
- Time
- My Sister (again)
- Self-Portrait
- Lucas Sleeping
- Lucas
- Sydney
- 3 Friends
- (Belated) Happy Valentine's Day
- MRI Complete
- I'm Naked
- My Sister
- I'm Writing...
- Take a Deep Breath
- It's Time to Tell the Story
- Birth Watching
- Click -n- Time
- Parking Space Goddess
- New Year's Tick Tocking
- Thoughts
- I am Cured
- Pondering and Moving Forward
- I'M NOT CRAZY!!!
- Shameless Plugging
- December Birth #2 - Birth Brought Ailie
- Dancing in the Sand
- Pregnant Nursing
- Compassionate Detachment
- Letter to a Friend
- Wicked
- What's So Hard About Blogging
- Okay, I'll Show You One *laugh*
- Defying Gravity
- Raw III
- Raw II
- Raw
- Midwife as Mother; Mother as Midwife
- A Story About a Mother
- Pens
- Harvest Moon
- Corsets
- Sleeping Off-Call
- What's In a Scratch
- Speaking for the Silent
- Snuggling
- Pregnant Mama Nursing Toddler
- Older Tandem Nurslings
- Tandem Chatting
- Sunset on a Pregnancy
- FairyDaughter
- Sisters
- What Possesses Some People?
- Rosh Hoshana
- She Took Me Out to a Ball Game
- And now heading home...
- Barfing in Labor
- Pistil Pink
- Mr. Winkle
- Our Family Bed
- Non-Bio Tandem Nursing
- Cesarean
- Head Pressure
- Volleyball
- Sunset
- On the Beach
- I Thread My Way...
- Home Visits
- Red-Faced Embarrassment
- 30 Days Tonight!
- Open Letter to UCers
- Why I Write (revisited)
- Nitpicking (UC Talk)
- What Do You Get for Your Money
- When You Buy the Hospital Ticket...
- Dreamgirls!
- Practice Guidelines
- My UC Baby - Baby 2
- Where She Was Born - Baby 3
- Car Birth - Baby 3
- 23 Years Ago - Baby 1
- Toddler Nursing - Baby 3
- Choice
- Scheherazade Entry
- Red Flags
- Getting Old
- Random Thoughts
- Everyone Buy Vogue Magazine!
- LiveJournal Contingency
- Baby Talk Magazine Controversy
- Word Search - Random Questions & Answers
- Newborn Exam (and more!)
- What Spinal Meningitis Feels Like
- From Whence They Came
- Watching Discovery Health...
- Keep Talking (even when it's hard)
- Marionette Obstetrics
- "Mother Lode of Pain"
- Miss Universe
- Make-Believe
- Life as Rollercoaster
- Shackling Laboring Inmates
- Word Search - (more) What People Are Askin'
- Word Search - What People Are Askin'
- Waves of Flesh
- Random Stuff - Gonna Be Fun!
- (NOT) a "Stupid Girl"
- Watch "Good Morning America"
- I've Done Some (ER) Time
- Ethics & Patient Advocates
- Breastfeeding Katrina Stories
- Shape of a Mother
- Vaccinations
- Pediatric Grand Rounds - July 15, 2006
- The Sun
- Postpartum Suicide Article
- Let's Look at Those Search Terms
- Grand Rounds - July 11th, 2006
- Dumping
- Water Therapy
- Heavy Weight Fight
- What Makes Placentas Healthy (or not)
- Word Search - Velamentous Insertion
- Word Search - Healthy Placenta
- What Do I Know, Anyway?
- Grand Rounds - July 4th, 2006
- Word Search - How to Wean
- Word Search - Ripe Cervix
- Word Search - Baby Without Oxygen
- Word Search - Home Birth Analgesics
- If a Scheduled Cesarean is Necessary
- Low AFI (NST/BPP)
- Fat Vaginas
- Let's All Have VBAmCs!
- Word Search - posterior cervix
- Fasting
- Placenta and Tongue
- Psych Writes
- Blogging - Essays or Streams of Consciousness?
- New Orleans VBAC Story
- Grand Rounds Posted - 6/27/06
- Reflections on New Orleans
- Rituals
- Humanizing an OB/GYN Visit
- Yoni
- Powerful Comment That Must be Shared
- No!
- Geographical Fat
- Grand Rounds - I got in!
- Kelly Ripa -
- New Orleans L&D Staffing
- Ecstatic Birth
- It's a (VBAC) Girl!
- Labor, Maybe?
- Cicadas
- Pre-/Early/Prodromal Labor
- Refusal Forms
- Border Patrol Learns "Emergency" Childbirth
- If I Were in a Developing Country...
- When to Debate Breastfeeding vs. Bottle Feeding
- Breast-Feed or Else!
- Titers
- Vaginas
- Internal (Medicine/Thoughts/Exams)
- Premonitions
- Doing a Vaginal Exam...
- Endorphins
- Many Approaches Taken to Childbirth (article rebuttle)
- Epidural Infection Kills Mom
- Cesarean Tragedy (I couldn't make this up if I tried)
- US News & World Report Cesarean Article
- Grand Rounds - How do I get in the club?
- Cover Your Ears
- Gory, but oh so cool...
- Martha
- Flea says:
- Okay, so she was a footling breech
- Charting
- When the Test Is Negative
- Angelina...
- Why Do So Many Fat Women Struggle With Breastfeeding...
- What Motivates Physicians?
- Follow the "Leader"
- Shifting Care
- Baby Story
- Co-Care Thoughts
- IUD
- Must-Read Sites!
- Gifts
- GBS & More
- Still no baby
- A Poem About an Amniotic Embolism
- This article nearly gave me a coronary.
- Comment on a Harry Potter Page
- Letter I Wrote to Admin
- One day...
- Curious-er and Curious-er
- Talking for Awhile
- Discussion About Arrested Midwife (and shoulder dystocia)
- Postpartum Abandonment by Midwives
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Reader Comments (13)
Wow! That's... um... interesting. Wow!
I don't even know what to say about this book! Wow! Talk about gender stereotypes. When was it written??
That will certainly be one that I will NOT read with my children...
Jill: It was written in 1970. Scary, eh?
I found this book at a garage sale and made the woman give it to me; I wouldn't even pay for it. I've hung onto it all these years, never reading it to the kids, but sharing it with my feminist friends. FInally, I was able to scan it and share it here!
Jesus. That is scary scary.
1970????????? Wow! I was trying to read the copyright date and was wondering if it said 1930. But 1970??? Wow!
Yikes, that is just... wow. I have two girls and this is one bedtime story I definitely will NOT be reading to them! I showed it to my husband and he thought it was hilarious. We went through guessing what the girl thing would be and after "boys fix things" he said "girls break things?" I kind of thought that after "boys are heroes" they would've said "girls are damsels in distress " and had a little girl tied to a railroad track or something. It looks like it was probably dedicated to a brother and a sister. Glad I didn't grow up in that family!
It might interest you to read up on the author, Whitney Darrow - he was actually a satirist.
That is GREAT to know! It makes more sense now, but is kind of a bummer in the shock value arena. ;)
Thanks so much for sharing this info. I appreciate it.
SOME of it was cute- like "Boys are fathers; girls are mothers" and "Boys are grooms; girls are brides". But there was definitely some stereotyping on the career pages for certain!
At least the boy is pushing the stroller? That rarely happened here, LOL.
So ... girls don't eat?
I saw that a while back on http://contexts.org/socimages/. It really is priceless, isn't it?
I thought the book was adorable! Made me smile the whole way through.
I loved the ending--"We need each other." Could we start there and write a new version, going backwards?