Public Health Doula

Doula, master's of public health graduate, new IBCLC, and feminist. I'm reflecting on my studies, reflecting on other people's studies, posting news, telling stories, and inviting discussion on reproductive health from birth control to birth to bra fitting.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Octuplets and preterm birth

One of the things that is striking me, in the whole octuplets news story, is the amount of attention that is being devoted to the problem of...

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Keep the keeper?

Hippie alert! I've been interested in more natural and reusable menstrual products for a while, for three reasons. First, going through ...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

More fun breastfeeding ads!

Via Stand and Deliver, a breastfeeding promotion campaign that uses lifesize cut-outs of women nursing to encourage normalization of breast...

When is something not elective? When you don't choose it

Jennifer Block (author of "Pushed") has a great piece over on RHRealityCheck called "Can We Please Stop Blaming Women for C-S...

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Book recs

I've built up a reputation amongst my friends for bringing birth and/or breastfeeding into the conversation a little too often. That...

Nurse practitioner removes IUD without consent

In the oh no she DIDN'T! category, a nurse practitioner (and the community health center she works for) is being sued because she remove...

Friday, January 23, 2009

Unassisted birth

My last year in college, I went to the Reproductive Rights Conference organized by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshi...

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