Maddie's Musings
My Blog Posts
I love writing, and never more than when it's about stuff I'm passionate about - usually birth, babies and parenting.
Why Just One Day?
This post is dedicated to all the amazing doulas I know who 'mother the mother', to every breastfeeding support worker…
Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science
One man's pursuit of evidence-based medicine. Another Greek hero. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269 It's a great read - here's the first section to…
Health for All
Whatever happened to Health for All? Ups and downs of protection of breastfeeding, regulation of transnational corporations and Health for…
The Power of Placebo
This Guardian article was interesting, with quite a balanced attitude to harmless interventions such as homeopathy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/feb/06/homeopathy-homeopathic-nhs-placebo-effect I want to…
Do We Need Antibiotics for Premature Rupture of Membranes?
Articles The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9646, Pages 1310 - 1318, 11 October 2008 Editors' note: In 2001, the ORACLE…
Homebirth in the news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1084097/I-gave-birth-bathroom---women-babies-hospital.html
Babies hit the Bottle
Any Ideas What's Wrong with This?http://www.babysportonline.eu/A gold star for the first person to give me more than one reason why…
It’s September already!
New Month, New LifeHi, I'm back! Feel like it's been a long time since I was able to sit down…
Linda and I seem to have successfully put a group together for doula training in September. It looks like we…
