Obstetricians are inherently humble. You can’t attend thousands of births and fail to be impressed with the unpredictability of life threatening complications. They can come out of nowhere. Within minutes ...
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Have natural health advocates ever been right about anything?
Anti-vaccinationists have a perfect record. In the 200+ years since vaccine rejection ...
Oh, look, another Western, white*, well off woman using her body to feel superior to other women
Maria Kang is shocked, shocked that anyone could have misinterpreted her “playful” ...
In the UK, babies continue to die on the altar of vaginal birth
It’s inevitable, really. When you elevate the process of birth over the ...
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The hubris of homebirth midwives
Obstetricians are inherently humble. You can’t attend thousands of births and fail to be impressed with the unpredictability of life threatening complications. They can come out of nowhere. Within minutes a perfectly healthy baby can die from a cord prolapse, a shoulder dystocia or a ruptured uterus. Within minutes a perfectly healthy mother can die [...]
Just another variation of normal at homebirth
Woohoo! The Facebook page of Elder Midwives is a comedy goldmine! Indeed, I am beginning to wonder if it is real or a parody, since it’s difficult to imagine anyone as thoroughly clueless as these supposedly experienced “midwives” are. Consider this gem: I want all your opinions! I have a new client who wants to [...]
Natural childbirth advocates: it’s all in your head!
I came across this comic on Facebook. It originated with NAMI of Oregon, an organization devoted to helping people with mental illness, and it was designed to satirize the way that people often chide those with mental illness, as if the illness were a choice or as if simply changing outlook would cure it. It [...]
Have natural health advocates ever been right about anything?
Anti-vaccinationists have a perfect record. In the 200+ years since vaccine rejection came into being (shortly after vaccines came into being) they have been wrong about 100% of their claims. Pretty impressive, no? Yet, there are still vaccine rejectionists despite the fact that their all time batting average is zero. That got me thinking. Have [...]
Oh, look, another Western, white*, well off woman using her body to feel superior to other women
Maria Kang is shocked, shocked that anyone could have misinterpreted her “playful” suggestion as hate speech. Kang has sparked internet discussion with this image, posted on her Facebook page: And like other vicious women taken to task for making women feel bad, she thinks SHE is the one who is being discriminated against: Will a [...]
In the UK, babies continue to die on the altar of vaginal birth
It’s inevitable, really. When you elevate the process of birth over the outcome, you have to expect that babies are going to die preventable deaths. That’s precisely what has been happening in the United Kingdom. Driven in part by the immoral, self-serving UK midwifery obsession with vaginal birth, babies who could have easily been saved [...]
I’ve found the perfect hat for the naturally born baby!!
Thank goodness for geniuses like Carla Hartley of “trust birth” fame. She intuited that putting one of those cute knit hats on a baby to prevent heat loss after birth actually can harm the baby’s health for the rest of its life AND precipitate maternal postpartum hemorrhage. The sheeple of the homebirth movement (get it? [...]
Birth as performance art — literally
This picture has been making the rounds on Facebook. Click here to see it if you dare. It’s very bloody, and, once seen, cannot be unseen. The image is so obviously staged that I wondered whether it was even real. It is. And it is a piece of performance art by an actual artist. According [...]
Henci Goer: Sure, homebirth is dangerous in reality, but what about in theory?
I almost feel sorry for Henci Goer. She has styled herself an advocate of evidence based obstetric practice, but the evidence continues to mount that homebirth, which she supports, increases the risk of perinatal death. What evidence? Well, there’s the CDC data on planned homebirth, collected since 2003, that consistently shows homebirth to have a [...]
Judy Slome Cohain makes a video
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess I should be flattered that Judy Slome Cohain, CNM has noted the success of my video The truth about homebirth midwives, seen by nearly 10,000, and decided to make an imitation touting the “safety” of homebirth. You may remember Judy. She’s the clown who declared [...]
Amy Tuteur, MD
Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1979 and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. Her book, How Your Baby Is Born, an illustrated guide to pregnancy, labor and delivery was published by Ziff-Davis Press in 1994. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com.
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