My Soap Box

This started as a letter to a new mom I know, and I decided I wanted to share it more widely. Dear new parents – Starting out on this journey…

It’s been over a month now since the Animal Adventure Park started streaming the live cam of April the Giraffe‘s “imminent birth” and…..still no baby. Some examples of the kinds…

I see it all the time. Friends and family share it with me, fellow birth professionals share it on their pages, people text it to my clients who ask me…

I see so many women worrying because they are not “average” or trying to figure out if some small variation from average holds meaning. It takes several forms, among them:…

I’ve really gotten tired of it. Pregnant women who are planning for a specific kind of birth are told things like: “You know what is so cute? You – when…