What do you wish you’d known before you’d birthed? What stopped you hearing the nurturing advice you received? One more comment I received when I asked women these questions was: why go to hospital for 15 mins of pushing and then come home? Stay home in the first place! Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com [...]
Filed under: consumers' rights, feminism, parenting
“For years, women in Queensland have been assured that the anti-abortion laws were a ‘dead letter’ – that they would never be used. Now a young woman and her partner are facing trial under these laws and facing the prospect of years in prison.”
Tags: Australia, forced birthers, human rights, reproductive freedom
Filed under: feminism, reproductive justice
I support a lot of women to find their way through personal and political gunk and reach a point where they can birth their babies in nice simple births.As the end of pregnancy draws near I encourage women to start thinking about how they’re going to manage the early stages of the new breastfeeding relationship [...]
Tags: babywearing, breastfeeding, cosleeping
Filed under: consumers, feminism, homebirth, parenting, surgical monopoly
A first time birthing woman I know has been managing the fear others are feeling around her upcoming birth by choosing to present some facts for those who haven’t yet found out that obstetrics is mostly antiquated nonsense. I found her thoughts and perspective interesting given my own perspective as a writer and birth attendant [...]
Tags: first time homebirther, induction
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, surgical discourse, surgical monopoly
In case you haven’t seen it yet, it’s here. A fantastic collection of marvellous blog posts on all sorts of great topics involving feminism, birth, parenting and breastfeeding! Thanks to Mothers for Women’s Lib for such great work bringing it all together! Eleventh carnival of feminist parenting
Tags: feminist parenting, mothers for women's lib
Filed under: feminism, parenting
March and rally for a woman’s right to choose abortion MARTIN PLACE, Sydney 11am ~ Saturday, 29th May, 2010 A rally and march will be held in Sydney on Saturday, 29th May, 2010 – starting at Martin Place. This is in response to increasing anti-abortion attacks within Australia and internationally: * In Australia, soon after [...]
Tags: forced birthers
Filed under: Uncategorised, feminism, reproductive justice
Friday past, HaT had a section on Claudia Alexander because they’d obviously been watching the same tv show as me and been struck by the same scientist appearing in it too. To whit: I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets [...]
Tags: gloria lemay
Filed under: feminism, just for fun
The “Quality and Safety Framework” has been released. For something supposedly produced after hours of consultation and furrowed brows crouched over our hot submissions, it looks remarkably like all the other dross produced by the government and fellow travellers around this issue. Screw women, screw midwives, tell everyone a lot of bullshit, ahhh job well [...]
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, homebirth, homebirth campaign, midwives, midwifery, reproductive justice
Some things need no introduction. Some things need never be excused. Pretty?
Tags: feminism, human rights
Filed under: feminism
You’re needed in the world but you’re also really needed by the Carnival of Feminist Parenting! It’s so vital that we keep firming the links between the feminisms and all the things women do. If you blog, parent and call yourself a feminist, let’s meet you and your work soon! Try us on Wibiya! WAU_tab(‘hcenpkn36luf’, [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, normal mothering, parenting, radical mothering
Filed under: feminism, just for fun, parenting
