Now onto the transformation in the medical domain.
We visit the doctor’s office on a regular basis, and the rhythm there becomes part of our ritual. Waiting room, weigh-in, blood pressure, urine sample, questions for doctor, sonogram…internal exam.
A transformation in the formal education domain occurs. Pregnancy is a time for many women and their partners [...]
What a concept.
I am reading Robbie E. Davis-Floyd’s book, “Birth as an American Rite of Passage”. It is really fascinating. She is a social anthropologist, or at least this book is about social anthropology. Not exactly light reading, and not really one that I would recommend to all pregnant women, but many [...]
I just finished reading Your Best Birth, by Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein and Jacques Moritz. These are the gals that brought us a great movie, The Business of Being Born, a really fabulous look at our maternity care in here in the US. The book read like great advise from girlfriends…albeit your really [...]
