Fate of earth – fate of birth

Tags: michel odent, robbie davis-floyd
Filed under: breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting, surgical monopoly

Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding by Gopalan T on 18 August 2010 Australia’s chronic disease burden has been traced to historical barriers to breastfeeding. The research, by Dr Julie Smith and Dr Peta Harvey of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health at Australian National University (ANU), looked at the [...]

Tags: artificial feeding, breastfeeding
Filed under: breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting

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 [...]

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Parenting for a Peaceful World

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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

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

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

Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the [...]

Tags: inspiration, rest
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, just for fun, parenting

I came across this marvellous group and thought I’d share in case you haven’t seen them. Love their work! Check them out at their link. Such lovely, normal images of normal human stuff! Here we present the first page of photos banned from the social utility Facebook, as well as a few that haven’t been. [...]

Filed under: bullshit, consumers' rights, feminism, parenting

The lovely Professor Cheryl Beck who researches birth trauma is doing another study with TABS NZ, this time into fathers and their responses to witnessing traumatic pregnancy and/or birth. Anything that adds to our knowledge around birth trauma is important to me and I encourage people to get on board with this study. Joyous Birth [...]

Tags: birth trauma, human rights
Filed under: consumers' rights, parenting