by Abby Larsen | Dec 5, 2020 | Feed Your Baby, Informed Consent, Origin Stories, Pregnancy
Fetus Betus I didn’t think anything of my glucose tolerance test leading up to it. After all, I had no risk factors for it as far as I knew. I was 31, not a young mom, but not yet what the medical establishment refers to as a “geriatric pregnancy” by any means...
by Stephanie Freeman | Oct 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent
Basic Kindness and Grown Ass Adults When I was a child, one of my favorite memories was from when I was sixteen. It was winter, and, like clockwork, I was sick. So, so, sick. Sore throat, fever, stuffy nose; your basic Nyquil commercial. I was in bed surrounded by one...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, The F Word
Lately, unless people go into labor before their EDD, induction is the chef’s favorite on the birth menu. And here’s the fucked up thing. It’s never “just an induction”. It always sounds like something scary could be happening. It’s...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Reproductive Justice
Stephanie here. I used to have a blog called The Cranky Doula. I didn’t tell anyone about it because I was worried about seen as adversarial. Seen as anti-establishment. The irony of many doulas is we get looked at like we have “issues” with the...
by Abby Larsen | Aug 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Parenting, The F Word
What We Do P. 2: The Nitty Gritty …And what we don’t do, because that is also important. We get asked what we “do” all the gosh durn time. And like Stephanie mentioned in her previous post (that I just conveniently linked for you to catch up...
by Abby Larsen | Jun 25, 2020 | Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Origin Stories
I was always envious of people who grew up knowing exactly what their career trajectory looked like. How did they know that? Were their parents more strict? Did I lack some internal barometer of my own abilities? I still don’t know the answer, but now I am too...
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