The Mommy Blawg

Do Home Schoolers Deserve a Tax Break? Should they even want one? The New York Times explores this debate with seven different opinion pie...

The American Medical Association has issued a new policy on the use of social media ( AMA Issues New Policy To Guide Physicians’ Use of Soc...

Midwife Thinking sums up informed consent , according to Australian law.

The Giving Birth With Confidence blog has a new series titled A Woman’s Guide to VBAC: Navigating the NIH Consensus Recommendations . It in...

Private Midwife Melissa Maimann explains the current legal situation in Australia in Homebirth is not illegal!

I do mean to post these more often... In Florida , an appeals court confirmed the conviction of Tanya and Linda McGlade for practicing midwi...

Lawyer Jake Aryeh Marcus asks you to Curb Your Enthusiasm about the new Federal workplace pumping law on her blog, Sustainable Mothering . ...

The Washington Business Journal reports on the workplace-pumping provisions of the new health care package, focusing on the business aspect...

Says a New York federal appeals court ( AP via law.com ). Jessica Seinfeld was sued for trademark and copyright violations after her book, D...

Kellymom has a nice collection of resources regarding jury duty for breastfeeding moms.

Interesting article about cord blood collection in the UK - Legal warning over umbilical cord blood collection . The article implies that is...

RH Reality Check's Aimee Newman examines Washington state's proposed legislation which would ban on the shackling of pregnant incar...

I've added a few more blog links to my side bar. A Lawyer Mom's Musings has been caustically blogging since 2008. The Unnecesaria...

What will it take for me to break my 10-month-long blogging silence (more on that later)? This situation out of Australia (HT The Unnecesar...

Paul Levy is hosting this week's Grand Rounds at his blog Running a Hospital ('cause that's what he does). The topic is "...

The VBAC Facts blog has a great explanation of the legalities of VBACs and homebirth. To summarize, VBAC is legal everywhere in the US. Ho...

Mazely writes about A Midwife Crisis: Maternity Care in Canada : The practice of midwifery in Canada is regulated by provincial and territo...

Traveling mothers still face hurdles in pumping breastmilk, reports the New York Times' business section, despite updated TSA rules reg...

I recently discovered that in December Darling Hill (a blog which I had never heard of but plan to keep an eye on!) named The Mommy Blawg ...

On Christmas Eve, federal, state, and local authorities executed a search warrant on the Miami Maternity Center following a 10-month joint ...

Midwife in the Clouds discusses being sued here and here - for allegedly misrepresenting the fact that she was an "in-network" ...

The American Bar Association Journal has published a list of this year's 100 best legal blogs . I didn't make the list. Neither did ...

From Anna Wilkowska-Landowska (" Poland Says No to Pain-Free Childbirth "), the Polish health system no longer plans to pay for c...

Well, twenty-nine straight days of blogging, and I've run out of steam. Tomorrow we'll celebrate (it's also my birthday), but fo...