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Thoughts on Technology, Medical Intervention, & Birth

“You must yourself take responsibility for your own birth, including the decision to have technology used on you and your baby. Remember, technology is not good or bad. How technology is used can be good or bad. Airplanes can be used to carry you to visit your family or can be used to drop bombs [...]

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Tell Me a Story

Without fail, people just love to share dramatic, scary, worst-case scenario birth stories with pregnant women. If you’re pregnant, you’ve heard at least one, I’m sure. The drama! The excitement! The terror! Lots of “Thank goodness for hospitals and drugs and surgeries and all that, or else that baby would have been in trouble,” and [...]

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