Sunday was Mother’s Day, Tara’s first. It certainly gives you a different perspective on the holiday when you are celebrating it not as a child of your own mom, but as a partner to the person who gave birth to your child. As much as I thought mother’s day was a holiday about the relationship between mother and child, at this point in my lifecycle it means much more than this.
While I certainly love my mom very much, at the moment, it is all about Tara. Having a baby is …
More and more of the blog entries I have been writing have been less a narrative of my personal experiences per se, as they have been essays about key issues that are of concern for new fathers. So I have decided to recast The Unorthodox Dad as an online magazine.
Look forward to some key feature articles as well as a number of contributions from guest columnists.
If you are interested in writing and sharing your experiences as a way of discussing issues of fathering, please reach out with an email or …
Last night, the local ABC News station did a segment on Village Obstetrics that was truly remarkable.
The piece positioned the practice as a contemporary and progressive office with practitioners who specialize in obstetrics, emphasizing they do not provide gynecological services. By allowing women time to labor and by being “minimally invasive,” they are able to radically reduce the rate of c-sections.
Their overall c-section rate is 20% while the national rate is 31%. If you exclude the c-sections for high-risk pregnancies, the number of patients who receive c-sections for “failure to …
