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These next few are woefully behind, but they all deserve to be announced!

Congratulations to mom Terri and Dad John on the birth of their second child, daughter Hannah, who was born back in November! She joins big brother Nate!… Continue reading

My dad called me today (thanks, Da!) to tell me about this segment that aired last night on MSNBC. I love that more and more mainstream media are getting involved and reporting on it. I wonder, however, how the Federal… Continue reading

An article from Scope, published by the Stanford School of Medicine.

The paper’s authors, including Stanford professor and Packard Children’s neonatologist Jeffrey Gould, MD, agree that cesareans can be necessary and lifesaving. But in the last 15 years, the rate… Continue reading

So…it’s a start: for the first time in a decade, the C-section rate in the US declined from 2009 to 2010. Granted, it dropped from 32.9 to 32.8, but the more important thing is that it didn’t INCREASE.

When the… Continue reading