"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinste...

Dear Jalilah, I hope you will come to know your mother as I know her. I wish you could have seen how hard she worked, how much she cared and...

Last summer I embarked on my maiden voyage into the turbulent waters of the democratic process. I had been contacted by the Mama Campaign, a...

Congratulations to Tiffany and Jeorn! The road of life is never smooth and straight but it is the ups and downs, twists and turns that help ...

Laurie Stern, one of the wonderful nurses who works with newborns at our hospitals posted this info on FaceBook. Thank you Laurie! Although ...

Getting Your Pregnancy Off to a Great Start! This is a new 3 class series focusing on pregnancy as opposed to labor & birth. For maximum...

Welcome Little Slugger! Some births are so full of surprises they confound even the "professionals". Thank you Baby Ryan for remi...

To my love, my partner, my son’s father this is for all the things you didn’t do. Begging Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s pardon… “How Do ...

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 ...

Below is a quote by Dr. Sarah Buckley,MD which I saw posted on FaceBook today. It immediately rang true for me and expressed a piece of moth...

In today's Tribune is a wire story about breastfeeding.The results of a study published today in the Journal Pediatrics says if 90% of b...

Yesterday I attended Lois Capps' thank you rally for people who helped to get the health care bill passed. It was held in the parking lo...

Why don't more doctors support a woman's desire to birth naturally after a previous c-section? This is the question posed in a recen...

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 ...

This just e-mailed to me from Childbirth Connection, another group that worked hard to get important items for women and babies included in ...

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...

I am too busy to write but there has been lots of important news about birth lately in the news. Here is the latest as of this morning. . . ...

This is a topic most parents don't even know they should be making a decision about. Instead it simply happens as part of the routine pr...

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