Your Hospital Choice Significantly Influences Your Cesarean Risk

Image from Consumer Reports  Consumer Reports has a new report out for Cesarean Awareness Month, focusing on the variations in cesarean rat...

Weight Bias in Maternity Care: Weight Harassment and Over-Testing

Here is an email I received some time ago, detailing one plus-size woman's experiences with weight bias and harassment during pregnancy....

Midwives Can Safely Care for Obese Women

Image Credit: Andy Ellison In many places , midwives are no longer permitted to care for obese women, or at least obese women over a certa...

Labor Length in "Obese" Women: Dig Deeper

Here's the abstract of an interesting study suggesting that the first stage of labor (dilation) is longer in "obese" women an...

Nice Is Not Enough: Questions for Interviewing a Maternity Care Provider

Many women want to choose their pregnancy care provider carefully, but aren't sure what questions to ask when interviewing doctors or mi...