UPDATE: Next Day…
Thankyou dear readers, in the past day or so The Homebirth Debate Blog has reached #2 in the WORST Blog of all time catagory at the Bloggers Choice Awards 2008. With 63 votes as of today, the quack who claims to like debating about home birth has once again proved with this little survey that she has the most pointless BLOG on the net.
I checked WIKI for the antonym of Debate (For those of you who did not attend Medical School, (and are perhaps simply ignorant, not stupid, just not as enlightened as some Bloggers with REAL credentials), An antonym is the opposite of the word being defined.
Synonyms for the word Debate are: discussion, argument, dispute, deliberation, examination, consideration
Antonym: conclusion
IF Dr. Amy is willing to change the name of her blog to Home Birth CONCLUSION, I will stop dissing her.
The funny thing is, I don’t know one person in the homebirth community who thinks that all hospital birth is all bad all the time. We ALL agree that Allopathy (Drugs and Surgical Birth) has its place in our world. But to claim as ACOG and Dr. Amy do that no birth should ever, ever, ever take place at home, they have come to the CONCLUSION that NO BIRTH should ever take place at home and those of us who do it for any reason whatsoever are selfish, ignorant, and just not quite as enlightened about the facts of birth as they are.
My reasons for choosing to birth my last two sons at home are tied up in the Colorado Rules of Engagement for Midwives and Birth. I am the daughter of two families who have been notoriously “late” gestating babies. My Dad was a 44 weeks babe and My Mother gave birth to a 44 weeks son. One of my sons was a 45 weeks gestator, and my fifth child was born exactly 42 weeks and three days after the first day of my last period. If I had chosen to hire a midwife for a homebirth she would have been compelled by Colorado Law to transfer care to an OB THREE DAYS before my son was ready to be born.
I TRUST my childrens ability to decide when they are ready to be born. This flies in the face of current medical dogma around gestation.
In looking at all of the factors involved, and knowing several women in my community who were induced with CYTOTEC with horrifying results to them and their children, I decided that I was far safer waiting at home for my own labor to kick in than in being induced.
As a mother with a C-section scar from my second birth, I weighed all of the factors and decided that a natural birth would serve me and my children best rather than being induced with artificial hormones days or weeks before they were ready to be born.
This choice was not made ignorantly. When Ben did in fact go a few days past the 42 week marker, I was very grateful that I did not hire a midwife to help me with the birth.
When and if Colorado decides to factor me and my children into their laws for birth, I may have a change of heart around assisted birth. But I recently heard from a woman who is a labor nurse at a midwest hostpital with an 80% C-section rate where every mother is induced at 37 weeks and the only women to give birth naturally with no augmentation are those lucky souls who happen to go into labor early and give birth as soon as they get to the hospital.
Let’s just say the trends are not lookin too good for natural, spontaneous delivery at the local hospital and various places around the country.
I guess the point is that every mother has to decide for herself what type of birth will best help her achieve her goals for a healthy baby, and I support every woman having the ability to choose whatever scenario feels right for her for any given birth.
Jenny Hatch

Ducktor Amy, Quack Quack…
The WORST blog of all time. Har har…

The Homebirth Debate Blog is a joke.
Dr. Amy is steadily climbing in the online contest to be the WORST blog of all time.
She did a blog post on the award. And her little circle of paid harpies who sit around all day in her comment section, mocking and pointing the finger of scorn at mothers who want to give birth holistically really should get a life. Yet I really can’t fault them. If someone was PAYING me a hefty sum to dump on homebirth ALL OVER THE WEB, I might be tempted…no what am I saying….Dr. Amy, you just keep on, keepin on. YOU are the gift that keeps on giving.
I voted for her yesterday, she is currently number 4!!!
This is what I wrote on the comment section of the bloggers choice awards:

I LOVE Dr. Amy!!! During the many Freebirth debates that happened on the internet this past year, she provided perfect extreme wacky “debate” points to the many arguments in favor of Freebirth.

We had so much fun at Dr. Crippens blog

And who can forget Salon???

Or my personal favorite? The Washington Post:

What rockin good times we had….and her blog, well, yes, I did vote it the worst blog on the internet, but when I need a really good chuckle, I go give it a look. Really funny stuff. She is a busy beaver.

Jenny Hatch

WWW.NaturalFamilyBLOG.com
SHHHHHhhhhhhh, don’t let Dr. Amys employers know that her blog is so unpopular, she may not get her check this month from her Big Pharma Backers…..