This blog piece is in direct response to the recent piece in the Huffington Post, “My True Feelings Regarding My Home Birth Experience” by...

This morning I noticed this intriguing post in our local ICAN group's Facebook page: I know this isn't an active group, but this i...

These posts originally appeared as my Food for Thought series on Facebook . I wanted to provoke the women of San Luis Obispo county into thi...

A former doula & class client sent me a link to a blog piece by Cherylyn , a doula in Utah. Natalie knew I would be interested in this...

"The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for ba...

Today I stumbled upon an online debate over different views of midwifery. As commonly happens in arguments each side seemed to think it was...

One April a few years ago I picked up the phone. It was Brenda Ramler, a local midwife calling. "Hi. I'm working on a recommended r...

Ina May Gaskin is America's premier midwife.If not for her I don't know what would have happened to birth in this country. Her bo...

One morning recently I was getting ready to go to a La Leche League meeting when the phone rang. It was another doula , a friend, and she n...

Baby's First Latch I love catching this precious moment on film. Welcome Desiree! Born on 8/9/10 We never know how birth will go. ...

I love this humorous account of a local homebirth. The humor comes from her no nonsense down to earth truth telling about the challenges o...

Not sure about where to birth, hospital or home? When trying to decide where to birth I always advise my clients to look deep into their hea...