The Childbirth Truth Squad

Archive for July 2010

From Trucial on About # [Pending] Dr. Amy by any other name…

Flag Me Down

Posted by: childbirthtruthsquad on: July 23, 2010

This one was from the women’s site Babble in 2009, a site that seems to be neutral on these issues.  (It featured a debate on homebirth with a pro and con author).  In situations where the Birth Junkies don’t control what gets posted with their iron fists, they substitute heavy use of the “Flag for [...]

Here’s a quick compilation of all things sent as criticisms to Science (fiction) and Sensibility in response to her critique of a recent home birth meta-analysis that Romano would not publish, plus a few bonus points.  http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=1349  They cannot be reposted verbatim, because math geeks worry about being ignored for being too boring, more than [...]

NEW MATERIAL

Posted by: childbirthtruthsquad on: July 21, 2010

Post anything that Birth Junkies have deleted, failed to post, or avoided by changing the subject or ignoring.   It will NOT appear here as a comment.  It will be elevated to become its own post.  You can veiw any comments to it and respond in the comment section under it, link to you own blog, send [...]

http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=1349 Back at LaMaze’s Science and Sensibility we get a twofer of evasion.  The link shows the blog’s host, Amy Romano gushing over the Netherlands and their study of home birth safety.  She promotes it and the study as gold standards of health care and research.  When it is pointed out that The Netherlands has [...]

Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees?

Posted by: childbirthtruthsquad on: July 20, 2010

Any study that shows midwifery is more deadly, is met with a flurry of criticisms by midwives and company, supposedly based in science and statistics. The recent meta-analysis by Wax et al in AJOG stated that homebirths are three times as deadly.   As anyone who follows the debate knows, there are no randomized controls comparing homebirth to hospitals.   [...]

Birth Junkies Behaving Badly

Posted by: childbirthtruthsquad on: July 18, 2010

Welcome to the Childbirth Truth Squad Blog.  The goal is to be a repository of information that Birth Junkies don’t want you to see.  1) Submit any comment that has been deleted, banned, or had important issues evaded on a childbirth related blog    2) Feel free to include the offenders’ posts leading up or other background material.  3) [...]



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