“Breastfeeding and Work; Let’s Make It Work.” What comes to your mind when you hear the 2015 World Breastfeeding Week’s slogan? Most Amer...

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...

Yesterday I caught the tail end of Dave Congalton on the radio talking with a local pediatrician who has written a new e-book about baby...

This is Nora Lewis the certified nurse midwife who caught my son at Sierra Vista Hospital in 1990. That birth changed my life forever and ...

The story of midwifery in America is a classic power struggle for women’s rights, respect and choice; a tale of the clash of women’s cultu...

As Mother's Day has come and gone for another year I am confronted with the cold reality that most mothers around the world don't h...

Can you feel it? The pendulum is beginning to swing the other way again. Last February I witnessed a doctor emotionally manipulating a woman...

From Joe Stover Sent June 30 th "Hey Mom you should check out this article. It's kind of hard to believe/disturbing." My ...

Currently there is a lot of buzz about our high cesarean section rate and trying to lower it. Why? Because the statistics are starting to be...

Publised in the SLO New Times April 14, 2010 Picked up by the American Association of Birth Centers for their web site. BY JENNIFER STOVER ...

Published in the SLO Tribune on Friday March 26, 2010 Hidden in the thousands of pages of the Health Care Bill that President Obama signed i...

Here is the e-mail I sent to Betsy Umhofer, Representative Capps' local Liaison and Congresswoman Capps' reply. Dear Ms. Umhofer, I ...

I just watched President Obama sign into law the health care bill. People may disagree about this bill and what it means for our future. I...

My brother, Richard, alerted me to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday with the head line "Pregnancy Related Death Rate...