I'm very sorry to say that I only heard about the launch the day after, when everyone was talking on Twitter about how marvellous it had been! But I'm looking forward to seeing where this work of so many amazing women goes, and hope to join in your stellar community. Congrats on this new venture, and your new daughter, too!
Congratulations!!! I'm super interested to read your thoughts on childbirth. I started my career as a lawyer doing some medical malpractice defense work, including some obstetrics cases, and have a very love-hate relationship with modern obstetrics. Hospitals are not super pleasant places to give birth, unless you need an emergency C-section or a NICU...and then they are suddenly the absolute best. I've had three unmedicated hospital births. At my lowest point, I got into a heated argument --while in second stage labor--with the admitting nurse at Triage over whether I needed a doctor *right away* because I was going to have the baby within the next 15 minutes (I was right; she was wrong). But the flip side of that coin was knowing a Level 1 NICU was seconds away, and that each of my delivering OBs had decades of experience and were talented surgeons if I needed.
Ugh, yes - I share your love/hate relationship. I was born at home and am very big on the importance of the mind-body connection in childbirth, which I think a lot of contemporary obstetrics totally ignores. But I am also super concerned by the trend in certain corners of the contemporary home-birth movement to valorize frankly irresponsible risk taking. I so very much wish that I could do home births, but I hemorrhaged severely with my first two kids (and only didn't this time because they put me on pitocin and cytotec the second baby was delivered/before I even delivered the placenta). So, as much as I dislike hospitals, homebirth is off the table for me.
Congratulations! This sounds amazing. Both the project and the easy baby. My own easy babe is now 6 months and happily rolling across the bedroom floor as I tap away at my proposal for book #2. She’s a darling, and I am very thankful (now) that #1 was so difficult. I prefer baptism by fire to being lulled into a false sense of security 🤣
Yes! I can certainly say the same in retrospect. But man, am I ever thankful that I don't have to go back and relieve the first three years or so of motherhood (especially since my first two were only 16 months apart!).
I'm very sorry to say that I only heard about the launch the day after, when everyone was talking on Twitter about how marvellous it had been! But I'm looking forward to seeing where this work of so many amazing women goes, and hope to join in your stellar community. Congrats on this new venture, and your new daughter, too!
Welcome! And thanks so much for the kind words!
Congratulations!!! I'm super interested to read your thoughts on childbirth. I started my career as a lawyer doing some medical malpractice defense work, including some obstetrics cases, and have a very love-hate relationship with modern obstetrics. Hospitals are not super pleasant places to give birth, unless you need an emergency C-section or a NICU...and then they are suddenly the absolute best. I've had three unmedicated hospital births. At my lowest point, I got into a heated argument --while in second stage labor--with the admitting nurse at Triage over whether I needed a doctor *right away* because I was going to have the baby within the next 15 minutes (I was right; she was wrong). But the flip side of that coin was knowing a Level 1 NICU was seconds away, and that each of my delivering OBs had decades of experience and were talented surgeons if I needed.
Ugh, yes - I share your love/hate relationship. I was born at home and am very big on the importance of the mind-body connection in childbirth, which I think a lot of contemporary obstetrics totally ignores. But I am also super concerned by the trend in certain corners of the contemporary home-birth movement to valorize frankly irresponsible risk taking. I so very much wish that I could do home births, but I hemorrhaged severely with my first two kids (and only didn't this time because they put me on pitocin and cytotec the second baby was delivered/before I even delivered the placenta). So, as much as I dislike hospitals, homebirth is off the table for me.
Congratulations! This sounds amazing. Both the project and the easy baby. My own easy babe is now 6 months and happily rolling across the bedroom floor as I tap away at my proposal for book #2. She’s a darling, and I am very thankful (now) that #1 was so difficult. I prefer baptism by fire to being lulled into a false sense of security 🤣
Yes! I can certainly say the same in retrospect. But man, am I ever thankful that I don't have to go back and relieve the first three years or so of motherhood (especially since my first two were only 16 months apart!).