Birth

Three steps to a healthy, green, organic pregnancy

Posted by The Green Mama on Oct 24, 2011
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The Green Mama’s three steps to achieving the healthiest, greenest pregnancy


1.   Eat organic.

Pregnant women and children will especially benefit from eating organic food.

Are mom's worried about the wrong things? How to keep your child safe in today's toxic world.

Posted by The Green Mama on Aug 10, 2011
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I’ve had a slew of Ask the Green Mama questions recently that boil down to this: What are real dangers and what are the imagined dangers of parenting? This is at the heart of most questions, isn’t it? What will really kill my baby and what is actually not worth the stress of the worry. 

Of course, much of this we just don’t know. Parenting is risky, because life is full of unknowns. Today’s science, however, is telling us much about where our worry line should be.

Here’s what we do know.

Posh Spice Beckham vs Erykah Badu in a birth off: the problems with multiple c-sections

Posted by The Green Mama on Jul 11, 2011
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The Real Risk of Being Posh Spice: The Troubles with Having Baby #4 by Cesarean Section

Today, Victoria “Posh” Spice delivered her fourth baby—first girl—by elective cesarean section. Not very note worthy, except for the fact that Posh is often referenced as the icon for the elective c-section movement (along with Brittany Spears). On the other “side” are the famous natural birth (and often home birth) icons such as Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Connelly, Erykah Badu, and Ricki Lake. 

Birth of a nation or just birth?

Posted by The Green Mama on Jun 30, 2011
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Did you know this weekend is when both the U.S. and Canada celebrate some version of a national birthday party? All this talk about birth of nations and lots of tidbits on birth in general has got me thinking about, well, birth. So, in one of the strangest Canada Day/Independence Day blogs ever, this is a look at the state of birth in North America.

Birth Part 2: Why do so many American women die in childbirth?

Posted by The Green Mama on Aug 04, 2010
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My first baby was born in Chicago. At  home. When I would mention home birth in that city it was akin to saying: "I like to fly stunt planes--wanna set yourself on fire and take a ride with me?" Mothers were aghast.  I must be nuts, or at least horribly anti-establishment. 

Birth Part 1: Does natural birth matter?

Posted by The Green Mama on Jul 23, 2010
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 "All that counts is that the baby is healthy" is what many women are told and believe.  The research says something different: a woman's experience matters. A healthy woman experiencing vaginal birth is more likely to come out with a healthy baby and healthy self.  

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