Importing Midwives and Exporting Babies - Illinois' Little Secret Gets National Attention

Illinois midwifery and home birth have gotten a lot of national attention lately. In late August, there was a Time Magazine article on the controversies surrounding home birth in the U.S.A. In the opening paragraph, there was a description of an Illinois home birth mama who eventually jumped the border to have her baby in [...]

Ms. Catania Goes to Springfield (again)

I haven’t been to our state capitol since I was with my mom (former State Rep. Susan Catania) in the seventies and early eighties.

It is the stuff of legend – ok well, the stuff of lots of family stories anyway – as one of very few women in the legislature, she was a rarity in [...]