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The Inadvertent Advocate: 4/18/10 - 4/25/10

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Monday, April 19, 2010. I'm sure today will an unmemorable one for me, as days go. It's a lovely spring day, sure - redbuds and lilacs in bloom -but it's one of thousands of lovely spring days I hope to live in my life. It was a similarly lovely spring day 15 years ago today. I remember that because I had just come in from examining my newly tilled garden when the phone rang - my Kansas City Star. One of those is now kno...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: A Blue Band-Aid

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. A few days ago, I was cleaning out an old wallet and stumbled across a band-aid, its wrapper folded and faded. It easily could have ended up in the trash with the rest of the detritus stuffed into the billfold's pockets - mostly things saved that shouldn't have been: receipts, unlabeled ticket stubs, an old piece of hard candy. All junk, to be disposed of without a second thought. To a bystander'...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: 2/28/10 - 3/7/10

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Thursday, March 4, 2010. Sunshine, Crocuses and Haiti. Even without flowering crocus, I've been thinking a lot about Ted (as I not-so-respectfully liked to call my dad) the last month or so. It is, strangely enough, the earthquake in Haiti that brings him to mind. When I was 11, not much older than my son is now, my parents took my sisters, my grandmother and me on a Caribbean cruise. Several things about that trip s...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: Conformed Consent

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Monday, May 17, 2010. One of the most frustrating things for doulas and childbirth educators is that our clients are rarely given true informed consent when it comes to healthcare decisions for moms or newborns. As a. I talk about it in class all the time - telling my students they deserve informed consent in pregnancy and birth and have a right to expect it from their healthcare teams. As a childbirth educator and doula...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: The Survivor Tree

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Monday, April 19, 2010. I'm sure today will an unmemorable one for me, as days go. It's a lovely spring day, sure - redbuds and lilacs in bloom -but it's one of thousands of lovely spring days I hope to live in my life. It was a similarly lovely spring day 15 years ago today. I remember that because I had just come in from examining my newly tilled garden when the phone rang - my Kansas City Star. One of those is now kno...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: 3/21/10 - 3/28/10

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Friday, March 26, 2010. Of Viruses, Big Babies and Ultrasound. March was a wacky month - filled with viruses (computer and human) that slowed down my progress here and elsewhere. I've had dozens of things I'd like to write about, but not the energy nor a computer that could keep up with a little word processing. In my years as a childbirth instructor and doula, I've worked with a number of moms who've given birth to babi...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: 5/9/10 - 5/16/10

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. A few days ago, I was cleaning out an old wallet and stumbled across a band-aid, its wrapper folded and faded. It easily could have ended up in the trash with the rest of the detritus stuffed into the billfold's pockets - mostly things saved that shouldn't have been: receipts, unlabeled ticket stubs, an old piece of hard candy. All junk, to be disposed of without a second thought. To a bystander'...

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The Inadvertent Advocate: 5/16/10 - 5/23/10

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A childbirth educator's thoughts on healthcare, the environment and life in general. Monday, May 17, 2010. One of the most frustrating things for doulas and childbirth educators is that our clients are rarely given true informed consent when it comes to healthcare decisions for moms or newborns. As a. I talk about it in class all the time - telling my students they deserve informed consent in pregnancy and birth and have a right to expect it from their healthcare teams. As a childbirth educator and doula...