For the second time in a week, I’m sending you over to my friend Melody’s web-site. Melody is a passionate advocate for homebirth and natural parenting, is a maternity and birth photographer, and is the director of Birth Matters in Northern Virginia. Everything I know about homebirth and the history of birth in the United States I owe to Melody, who often refers to herself as an information junkie (yes, she is one smart mamma too).
Recently, the AMA (American Medical Assocation) and ACOG (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) made resolutions against homebirth. I remember visiting Melody one afternoon and listening to her frustrations over the misinformation about homebirth that is prevalent in our media and national medical associations. Since having seen Ricki Lake’s The Business of Being Born, I had some understanding and insight as to why Melody was so angry that a woman’s right to choose how to birth was in jeopardy of being violated. On some level, I personally relate since 2 ob-gyns I visited while I was pregnant practically laughed at my birth plan and 1 ob was more than happy to direct me (an outrageous patient?) to the care of the midwives at his practice. Thank goodness he did!
Well, after a long wait, the American College of Nurse Midwives responded. To see what they said, go here. And for more in-depth and better informed commentary on the ins and outs of homebirth, go visit Melody. She’s definitely the homebirth expert in my neck of the woods.
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