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Dr. Amy
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C-section protects sexual sensation
Vaginal birth may be natural but it can also be very damaging. It has long been known that C-section reduces the risk of subsequent urinary incontinence. Now a new study provides evidence that C-section also protects the nerves responsible for pelvic sensation. The study is The…
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Promoting normal sex
Natural childbirth advocates profess confusion that the promotion of “normal, physiological” birth is disrespectful to women who make different choices. To help them understand why their rhetoric is hurtful, hateful and utterly self referential, I offer a thought experiment.…
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Does breastfeeding improve maternal heart health? Probably not.
Breastfeeding rates have risen dramatically over the past 50 years and NONE of the predicted benefits for infant health have come to pass. Why not? Because breastfeeding is SOCIALLY patterned (breastfeeding is closely associated with higher socio-economic status) and most of the…
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Parenting advice: science or scientism?
I’ve been writing for years about the way that science has been misused to support ideological movements like natural childbirth, lactivism and attachment parenting. I’ve been writing most recently about the way that science is being misused to support ideological movements like…
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Therapeutic parenting and the rise of “Generation Anxious”
One hundred years ago the people who Americans now refer to as the “Greatest Generation” were children and young adults. That was the generation that lived through a massive financial depression and grew to fight an existential war against Nazi Germany. In contrast, if we were…
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Our unquestioning acceptance of therapeutic parenting
A joke: First Fish: “How’s the water?” Second Fish: ”What the hell is water?” What applies to fish and water also applies to humans and culture. When you’re surrounded by it, you are often unaware that it is there. Hence most of us are oblivious to the culture of therapeutic…
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Oops! Wrongly done and poorly done tongue tie surgery.
Tongue tie surgery (frenotomy) is the new tonsillectomy. It’s a surgery that is necessary for certain narrow indications but has become extremely popular to treat conditions that don’t need treatment. Even members of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine have been forced to…
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Promoting attachment parenting as a way to limit government spending
Is attachment parenting ”best”? It’s critical to interrogate the dominant philosophy of contemporary parenting to understand whether it is truly the best way to parent children or merely a reflection of unexamined beliefs about the role of women, market culture and subconscious…
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3 questions to ask about attachment parenting
Attachment parenting has become the dominant parenting philosophy in Western countries in the early 21st Century. The ostensible reason is because it’s good for babies, making them more securely attached, happier and ultimately more productive citizens. That has been the…
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How much impact do confounding variables have on the cognitive benefits of breastfeeding? This much.
Do the purported benefits of breastfeeding really exist or are they merely artifacts of wealth, health and privilege. A new paper dramatically demonstrates what happens to the benefits of breastfeeding when you take confounding variables into account. The paper is To what extent…