Pam Hirsch reports that other staff at the hospital where she works with new Lactnet grandma Kris Rogers were less than enthusiastic about the footling breech homebirth of the grandbaby. (Congratulations to mom, baby, and grandma!) Earlier this year Linda Smith was in Colorado speaking at an LLL Area Conference. Naturally she spent some time talking about how birth practices affect breastfeeding. I helped to process the (anonymous, of course) evaluation forms afterwards and was downright shocked to read a comment from one attendee. She wrote that she couldn't believe the Colorado Nurses' Association had knowingly sposored CE credits for a speaker who recommended homebirths. She felt this was dangerous and wrong, and went on ranting for a bit about how irresponsible and negligent it was to endorse homebirths. My reaction to her reaction: I couldn't believe she, a HCP working with moms and babies, didn't know that homebirth is as safe or safer than birth center or hospital! Hellooooo, evidence-based practice! I thought about asking the Colorado Nurses' Association to address this subject perhaps in a newsletter. It wasn't that long ago (1999?) that the BMJ had a whole series of papers on the safety and desirability of homebirth as a birth option -- isn't that a respectable, mainstream enough journal to reference? I'm sure there are many other articles out there too. Working to make breastfeeding normal means that we can't help but also work on making natural birth normal. Margaret homebirther, among other things Longmont, CO *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html