birthy goodness of all kinds
breastfeeding
feminist
- Adaptive Projects
- Against Pornography
- Bell Bajao!
- Din of Inequity
- FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities
- Gender Across Borders
- Hovel on the Hill
- Hoyden about Town
- Kate Harding's Shapely Prose: home of the mordantly obese
- No Longer Quivering
- Professor, What If…?
- Teh Portly Dyke
- The Angry Black Woman
homebirth
homeschooling
parenting
progressives
Tags
andrew pesce Aotearoa architecture nerd alert attachment parenting Australia babywearing birth attendants birth in Australia birth trauma breastfeeding caesarean commentary that bites cosleeping eric bibb feminism feminist law professors first time homebirther forced birthers freebirth gratitude hbac helen razer henci goer homebirth homebirth after previous caesarean homebirth after previous trauma homebirth science not obstetric superstition human rights international midwives' day lies we tell to women lisa barrett misinformation campaign more humourless feminism musical moment obstetric monopoly personhood of the foetus pesky pesce reproductive freedom subsequent babies homebirthed sunday snicker thankful thursday trust birth conference vajazzling vbac wordless wednesdayCategories
Meta
Recent Comments
Category Archives: consumers’ rights
Timshel
Tweet
Don’t dream it’s over
Tweet
My legal bill
Readers of this blog will not be unaware that in 2009 my third child was stillborn at home. In October last year the NSW coroner’s office decided an inquiry needed to be held. We received the brief a few weeks … Continue reading
Posted in consumers' rights, homebirth campaign
30 Comments
Physiological miscarriage **trigger warning** loss, trauma
Many thanks to the woman who generously offered this story. Miscarriage is rare at home nowadays despite the demonstrably poor support offered in overstretched hospitals which have neither the means nor capacity to support women like their own midwife. L … Continue reading
Posted in careproviders, consumers, consumers' rights, homebirth, who homebirths?
8 Comments
Circumcision
I don’t write very much about male circumcision because it is not that common in Australia, and is virtually unknown in my communities plus other people do it a lot and way better than I would. This letter moved me … Continue reading
Do we need a new birth movement? What’s wrong with the human rights movement we have?
“But what should I do??” “Nothing, dear, you’re not qualified.” Monty Python, Meaning of Life, Birth. Birth activists are fond of pointing out the expertification of obstetrics and it is undeniably a field rife with Experts of all kinds, … Continue reading
Posted in careproviders, consumers' rights, feminism, Uncategorised
Tagged birth, feminism, homebirth, placenta lore, placentophagia
11 Comments
Endangered birth
Update: Thank you to those who flew in from around Australia with children and banners! ACM has no right to be trying to deny women access to midwives and while they’ve already made their decision, here’s hoping some of them … Continue reading
Posted in consumers' rights, homebirth campaign, Uncategorised
6 Comments
Beware the birthing Trojan horses
Did you hear the tale of the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks? Roughly speaking, the Greeks left a giant wooden horse in Troy and pretended to go away. The Trojans took the gift horse into their city, then … Continue reading
