15 April 2009

The State Of Birth In America


maybe it should be called the SORRY ASS state of birth...
a week of coverage from The MotherHood blog (the magazine is set to return to print in Fall,2009) on birth in the US...

Our series begins today with
You're So Brave (I Bet You Think This Birth is About You)

by
Helena Holgersson-Shorter

Then tune in this week for these articles:

THURSDAY, APRIL 16
Corporate Undermining: Setting Up Mothers to Fail by Maria Parlapiano

FRIDAY, APRIL 17
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural...Cesarean? by Kim Collins

SATURDAY, APRIL 18
Medicate, Subjugate, Dominate, Operate by Gayle Lemke

2 comments:

Helen Payne said...

Who's the painter in the image above? Where did you find it? Fascinating.

DoulaMomma said...

Oh my goodness, Hazel nuts...more than a year ago, so I can't recall, but I *think* it was an image my former editor at The MotherHood magazine's blog had found/used & I just borrowed it. Evocative, huh!