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Rape, birth rape and the limitless hypocrisy of natural mothering advocates

Behold birth rape! According to HuffPo UK: Birth rape, they call it … Rape is really to do with having your body disrespected, contorted against your wishes, without your consent. The way the medical establishment sees it is, when you’re on the hospital bed, you have already given consent. Some men say the same thing […]

Be afraid, Baby Friendly USA, be very, very afraid!

The single most important thing every prospective mother needs to know about breastfeeding is this: it has serious risks as well as benefits. Baby Friendly USA is petrified that women will find out. Sadly for the babies who have been injured and died and their grieving families, we found out the risks of breastfeeding hard […]

Another baby killed by forceps

In our obsession with lowering C-section rates, there has been much handwringing over the lost art of forceps deliveries. The dramatic rise in C-section rates has been caused in part by the fact that many deliveries that would have been accomplished by forceps have become C-sections because of our reluctance to use forceps. But there’s […]

Breech deaths are vanishing; why would anyone want to bring them back?

The folks at VBACFacts are shocked, shocked that breech vaginal birth is discouraged. It’s time to summon all that passion you have for patient autonomy and take some action! Let’s support Dr. Annette Fineberg and flood this hospital with letters! The following is copied from a fellow birth advocate in California: “I’m so sad right […]

Breastfeeding babies to death

If you want to understand the state of breastfeeding promotion in the US today, there’s no better place to start than the vast gulf between lactivists’ (“Breast Is Best”) fears and nurturists’ (“Fed Is Best”) fears. Lactivists fear that breastfeeding won’t be supported; nurturists fear that babies won’t be supported. There is something very, very […]

What do Andrew Wakefield and Big Tobacco executives have in common?

I might have wondered what Andrew Wakefield feels about sparking a measles epidemic among a vulnerable population in Minnesota, but I should have known that he would feel exactly like executives of Big Tobacco felts about lung cancer deaths. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]It’s hardly surprising that Wakefield apes the actions of Big […]

UK National Health Service paid more than $250 million to settle claims of brain damage from breastfeeding promotion

The impact of baby Landon’s death from insufficient breastmilk continues to reverberate around the world and lactation consultants continue to whine that such deaths are not their fault. The brutal truth is that lactivists lie and babies die. A new paper from the UK provides more tragic examples. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Both […]

I despise Milo Yiannopoulos, but Roxane Gay is wrong to try to censor him

I oppose censorship. I guess that’s not surprising since a rival blogger tried to force my blog off the internet because she disagreed with what I wrote. She was initially so successful that I had no choice but to sue her in Federal Court in 2013. The case, Tuteur v. Crosley-Corcoran, was ultimately settled confidentially, […]

See Baby Midwifery Supporters to hospital: Ignore dead and injured babies or we’ll sue you!

I, I, me, me, my birth, my VBAC, my experience, just me, always me! On Wednesday, I wrote about Dr. Brad Bootstaylor and See Baby Midwifery. DeKalb Medical Center restricted Dr. Bootstaylor’s privileges allegedly in the wake of a profoundly injured baby resulting from an attempted homebirth after two previous C-sections. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” […]

Breast intentions gone wrong: new paper shows Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative harms babies

I have been arguing for years that the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), designed to promote breastfeeding, ignores scientific evidence and leads to preventable deaths of babies. A new paper in JAMA Pediatrics confirms what I have been saying. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]A practice designed to promote breastfeeding is injuring and killing babies.[/pullquote] […]