Not everyone can bear children. Not everyone will bear children in the same way, or with the same outcome. The reasons for this vary widely. Sometimes there are no reasons.
In the United States 7.4% of women ages 15-44 are infertile (and almost 12% have impaired fertility). Worldwide, infertility seems to range from 3-10%.
But these numbers [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Apr 30 2009
Can’t
Apr 23 2009
How Midwives are like the Somali Pirates
I just read this article that debunks the construction of Somali pirates as robbers at sea and it got me thinking about midwives.
What struck me first in reading this article was the gap between the perspective of this author (that the Somali pirates are local patriots, protecting their people) and authors of more mainstream press [...]
Apr 21 2009
“We’re Not Rocks”
This is a typical sampling of the week’s birth related news: In Australia there is an intense debate about home birth raging which intensified after a leading home birth activist delivered a stillborn baby; a recent study of 530,000 women in the Netherlands has confirmed that planned home births for low-risk pregnant people is just [...]