Warmly,

Jen Kamel
VBAC Facts

I think that there is so much out there on the web for pregnant women (ahem, self-plug for the Unnecesarean, plus Science and Sensibility, and so so much more), I want the good guys to stop being swallowed up by the vast sea of hysteria and hogwash out there. I just had a mirror of the same intergenerational conflict with a very famous feminist legal scholar who insisted that my generation “just isn’t as interested in out-of-hospital birth.” I wanted to reply “no, you’re just not listening to what we have to say,” but that would have been pretty awful, even if true. We’re definitely out there searching for midwifery care, but if they’re not where we are looking for them… well, you know the answer to that better than anyone. I am a little hopeful that there seem to be a lot of doulas with web presence, but then there are also way more doulas than there are midwives.

Thanks for reading; I write under the assumption that nobody’s “out there” so it’s always nice to get a comment, especially from someone so rad!

I’ve given a variation of that talk at a few different conferences, and it’s been received with varying degrees of hostility, so you’re right there. I’m still swinging, though, and trying to get to “the good guys” 1:1.