There’s ongoing controversy in the lactation profession about where infants ought to sleep. Although considerable data shows that co-sleeping is a major risk factor for sudden infant death, breastfeeding professionals have tried to argue that since co-sleeping purportedly improves breastfeeding rates, and breastfeeding proportedly improves infant health, the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risks of […]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words and the image below is quite impressive. It’s the rate of autism over time compared to the rate of breastfeeding over time: Over the past 4 decades, there has been a shocking rise in the prevalence of autism. Antivax activists have pointed out that there has […]
Most women love their children desperately and want to be good mothers. Unfortunately that leaves them vulnerable to experts, real and self-proclaimed, who insist they know what is “best” for babies. But what women (and experts) often fail to realize is that what is best is often determined by socio-cultural factors that are left unexamined. […]
I’m going into the birth keeper business! I’ve decided to start my own school for homebirth and freebirth. I’m concerned that birth has strayed far from what nature intended and part of the reason is that women have forgotten the deeply spiritual aspects of birth. Dr. Amy’s College of Raw, Orgasmic, Totally Crunchy Homebirth (CROTCH) […]
Freebirth, childbirth without medical assistance of any kind, is a stunt, a piece of performance art. As such, the baby is merely a prop and an expendable prop at that. Don’t believe me? Believe Desirea Miller, leader of a freebirth group, discussing the idea of opting to get checked by medical personnel in the midst […]
Australian midwife Martina Görner boasted on Facebook: What a homebirth full of unexpected surprises , literally one after the other!! ♀️ Mum gave birth to her sweet little baby boy in water and then we thought the placenta was about to come… But as it turned out, there was another baby boy about to make […]
A number of recent deaths in the freebirth community have been publicized by Katie Paulson in a series of Patheos columns. “Lisa,” a member of a Facebook freebirth group for women who refuse any medical care for childbirth told the group: My water broke the evening of the 4th and was discolored. Since I was […]
One of the biggest lies of the many lies told by homebirth advocates is that unexpected childbirth complications can be managed by immediate transfer to the hospital. Some can, but the worst emergencies cannot. Why? Because in the case of a serious emergency, the baby is often left without oxygen. Think about it: could you […]
The obstetrician wrote: Occasionally I’m asked why we so often congratulate women on “beautifully natural births?” Some have commented, “all births are beautiful, why do you specifically call out natural births as though medicated births are somehow less beautiful?” … I realize that this is a marketing message. This physician is trolling for more business […]
It’s not unusual for new mothers to seek out other new mothers for support. They share information and experiences about birth, breastfeeding, sleeping and the awe of having created a new life. In contrast, in freebirth groups they share information about their dead babies. It’s not really surprising that there are lots of deaths in […]
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, Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting (HarperCollins) was published in 2016. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com... More
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