I should be doing my reading and writing for achieving my DONA and Birthing From Within certifications. And yet, I’ve been seeing all sorts of interesting items online, pulling my attention away from the hard-copy stack on my desk. Social media: good for networking and getting new information, bad for getting things crossed off a [...]
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Despite a setback earlier this month, and what this article might lead you to believe, Rep. Julie Hamos and the co-sponsors of the Illinois’ Home Birth Safety Act, HB 226, are still working on getting the bill passed this session. They need all the help we can give them to turn legislators’ “no’s” into “yes’s”. If [...] I promise to write about the road-trip-to lobby-with-children part of yesterday and upload the pictures as soon as I am done sorting them. As far as the legislation goes, here is the roll call for the vote to pass HB226 out of committee yesterday: Yes: Mary Flowers Keith Sommer Mike Zalewsk Julie Hamos (subbing in for Esther Golar) No: Greg Harris Will Burns Lisa Dugan Karen [...] It’s been a week for articles of interest about Cesareans: UNICEF has issued a new report: State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health, which reiterates the UN recommendation for a cesarean rate range of 5% to 15%. (Average rates in the US are above 30%.) Time Magazine has an article in its latest issue [...] |
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