Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Fresh Air in San Francisco
My interview with Terry Gross aired today on NPR. (Check it out at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6374616). Already I am getting emails from around the country from men and women sharing their amazing stories and wanting to talk more about childbirth today. Please feel free to post here. I will be giving a talk in Menlo Park tonight at Kepler's, a lovely independent bookstore, followed by another event in Park City, Utah, tomorrow, at the Spotted Frog.
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I just listened to your interview on Fresh Air. I am looking forward to reading Birth.
I recently birthed my first child at home. It was a planned home birth and the birth went quite smoothly and safe. I feel so lucky to live in a community where safe planned home births with very experienced midwives are possible. I live in Santa Cruz, California where there are a handful of midwives who have been practicing since the early 70's and continually working to keep safe home births an option for women who fall into a definition of low risk.
I met an incredible amount of opposition when I told people that I was planning on birthing my baby at home. I think much of the opposition I experienced was based on ignorance and fear. I hope your book will shed light on how birth has been hospitalized to the point of endangering many mothers and babies.
I recommend readers of this book also check out Our Babies, Our Selves by Meredith Small.
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