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Booby Trap Series: Planning for a breastfeeding-friendly birth

This is the third in a series of posts on Booby Traps™ during pregnancy, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. It’s time to wade into a sensitive topic here: the...

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Booby Traps Series: Could something about your birth have made your milk come...

This is the tenth in a series of posts on Booby Traps™, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. We’ve wrapped up our series on Booby Traps in pregnancy, and are launching...

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The author of “Pushed” on Early Elective Births

Following up on last week’s post on the Booby Trap of an early elective birth, we asked Jennifer Block, author of Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, to answer some...

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Booby Trap Series: Coneheads and caputs: How extra force in birth can affect...

This is the 13th in a series of posts on Booby Traps,™ made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Ever touch your baby’s fontanel and marvel at how flexible a baby’s head is?...

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Booby Traps Series: Skin-to-skin in the operating room after a cesarean birth...

This post is the 25th in a series on Booby Traps made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. A little while back I wrote about the power of skin-to-skin contact and its...

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Booby Traps Series: “Listening to Newborns:” How change happened at one hospital

This is the 39th in a series of posts on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company In this series I’ve been writing a lot about newborn care practices, and how...

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Science You Can Use: Is it a good idea for diabetic moms to express colostrum...

For a while I’ve been hearing about a novel way to help moms of diabetics avoid supplementing their newborns with formula:  prenatal colostrum expression. It seems like a kind of elegant solution to a...

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Booby Traps Series: VBAC is a breastfeeding issue. Lack of access to VBAC is...

The Listening to Mothers III survey, published by Childbirth Connection this month, contained a set of sobering statistics. This survey found that, while moms’ interest in VBAC is increasing (from 45%...

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