Hi there. Sorry about the sluggish posting lately. Please make sure to post on the message boards if there are any events you want publicized.
Thanks for all the well wishes about our daughter’s birth. We were very lucky to have a fairly easy delivery. Ihad a c-section with our son, two years ago, and was [...]

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If you missed the screening at UMC earlier this year, next week you’ll have another chance to see Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake’s documentary on childbirth in America. It’s showing in the Gallagher Theatre in the UA Student Union.
Details:
THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN
Wednesday, Sept. 3rd at 7pm
Admission:  Free
Director Abby Epstein’s controversial documentary takes a hard [...]

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Did you choose to find out the sex of your child before s/he was born?
Why or why not?
I’ll reply after some comments roll in…

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I went to see “The Business of Being Born” on Sunday at UMC.
It was a surprisingly full house. I expected that the movie would elicit a strong reaction from me–though I wasn’t sure of what nature. What I wasn’t prepared for was the feel of the crowd.
At first I was so excited to see the [...]

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…the “Business of Being Born” screening this weekend.
2pm on Saturday, DuVal auditorium, University Medical Center.
Here’s a review (thanks, Brett!) which manages to discuss the quality of the movie rather than the pros and cons of homebirth.
I’m looking forward to seeing this–thanks to Melissa for her efforts in bringing the movie to Tucson. It has a [...]

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According to an article in today’s Star, we’ll get the chance to see an advance screening of “The Business of Being Born”, a documentary on birthing in America. January 19th, 2pm, DuVal auditorium at UMC. Definitely looking forward to this. Birthing is such a loaded topic–c-sections, VBACs, choices about induction and pain relief, just for [...]

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Some good friends of ours are due with their first baby, um, tomorrow. Which means within a week the baby will be here. We’re trying to come up with a list of things we wish someone told us about labor, delivery, and the “fourth trimester”, as it’s sometimes called. Even for those of us in [...]

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