I just wanted to send a big "thank you" to Ami! I didn't get to participate online as actively as would have liked, but I really enjoyed following and reading...
Hi everyone! How's the reading going? Has anyone read this book before? Looking forward to our discussion which we'll really get into in December. Hope...
Hi again everyone! I wanted to let you all know that we're actually going to start the discussion of the book the week after Thanksgiving since December wiil ...
Could someone please remind me what book we're supposed to be reading now? I got on this list late, and just finished "The Birth House." So I need to get up...
Giving Birth with Confidence by Judy Lothian and Charlotte DeVries It's a great book and the official Lamaze book. If you go back a few posts to the...
Hi all, Hope you had great Thanksgivings, and hope you've had time to do some reading. I'd love for us to start discussing ""Giving Birth With Confidence". Any...
Charlotte Devries, one of the author of our book, has suggested that we leap into our discussion by looking into two recent birth issues. There is a recent...
Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting my teeth into a discussion of this one. Have you ever watched an old movie and felt like it was a total cliche, and...
I have to say that the book wasn't this for me at all, Michelle. In fact, I enjoyed it enough to purchase a copy for myself to be part of my personal lending...
Hi all, In response to Cathleen. I just went back to the CDC website just now. You are indeed right, data for 2005 puts the c-section rate at an appalling...
Hi ladies, The authors of our book would like to have a conference call with us on Monday December 18th at 9 p.m. eastern standard time. Anyone who would like...
I had the opposite feeling. For doulas, midwives and other members of the "birth community" I don't think this book is very radical, but for mainstream women...
Greetings, readers. I've been asked to give you a quick introduction of myself. I'm the mother of 3 grown children, and prior to my recent move to Ann Arbor,...
Hello Ladies! I was the producer of BOLD in Hartford this past Labor Day weekend, and I am working on compiling a website relating to birth in the Greater...
There's been lots of discussion on the ACOG statement on the various lists that I participate on, but I hadn't realized it was in response to the change in the...
Hi - I'm Tammi McKinley, a homebirth midwife in Virginia. So glad to join you! As to responses to ACOG, MANA, AABC, ACNM, White Ribbon Alliance and others have...
Hi, I wanted to write the group because of an experience this weekend that confirmed to me why this Lamaze book - Giving Birth with Confidence - is important....
Hi Karen, Please take a few minutes to write a review of the book and explain how it dispels the myths to which you are referring. I will put it in the book ...
Hi everyone, Happy New Year! As some of you may know, our BOLD Book Club coordinator, Rebecca, is a student midwife. Starting this January she is working at a...
I am so excited to read this book. And thanks Jillian for explaining my situation. I hope everyone is doing well and happy new year! Rebecca ... Broken ... a ...
Any idea if the book has been translated, especially for our unknowing immigrants who come here thinking America hospital services are offering the best care...
I don't know, Tammi. I suspect it hasn't been translated yet, but Jillian at BOLD will check with Marsden Wagner and get back to you. Hi to everyone - hope...
Is this "the" Jillian? The one I have come to know and love at each production - and saw at the CIMS show in Arlington? Yes, I'd love to know - those reading...
Yes! It's "the" Jillian! We are going to make a formal announcement soon that "the" Jillian has decided to get quite involved with BOLD. She's WONDERFUL...as...
Hello everyone! As I type this I can't believe that time has flown by the way that it has and tomorrow is February 1st already! We will begin our discussion...
Hi Tammi, I did check with Marsden Wagner, and the book has not been translated as of yet. You brought up a good point though. What about immigrants who come...
Hi Everyone! So, January is GONE! I can hardly believe it. Well, I'll go ahead and be the first to jump in there and say..........I haven't finished the book...