An “inconvenient truth” about birth?

From Pregnant in America:

Pregnant in America examines the betrayal of humanity’s greatest gift–birth–by the greed of U.S. corporations. Hospitals, insurance companies and other members of the healthcare industry have all pushed aside the best care of our infants and mothers to play the power game of raking in huge profits.

His wife pregnant, first-time filmmaker Steve Buonaugurio sets out to create a film that will expose the underside of the U.S. childbirth industry and help end its neglectful exploitation of pregnancy and birth.

Pregnant in America is the controversial story of life’s greatest miracle in the hands of a nation’s most powerful interests.

Watch the trailer: Pregnant in America.

February 21, 2007 | Filed Under In the News, Politics | 3 Comments 

The Spectacular Birth of Sage!

February 16, 2007 | Filed Under Home Birth | 1 Comment 

Push HB1267

You can’t deliver a baby if your hands are tied.

That’s how certified nurse midwives in South Dakota view a restriction on their profession.

They hope to change state law - untying their hands, if you will - through a House bill that goes before the Health and Human Services Committee on Friday.

Even if the bill doesn’t make it out of committee, doesn’t make it to the House floor, doesn’t receive Senate scrutiny, doesn’t land on the governor’s desk, women will know more about a process that is, two certified nurse midwives think, too often subjected to the harsh glare of hospital lights.

Read more at the Argus Leader about Jeanne Prentice and Terry Peak who are pushing forward for independent practice of nurse-midwifes in South Dakota.

And don’t forget to view Jeanne’s professional website: Midwife TV

February 8, 2007 | Filed Under Home Birth, In the News, Midwives/Midwifery, Politics | 1 Comment