Not All Fears Are Equal

Greetings on the first day of winter! I love it when we start to have longer days and shorter nights.

Thanks for all your comments and for the compliments and encouragement.

My neighbor lost her fluffy orange cat, El Gato, several nights ago. When he didn’t come home for supper (we live in the woods, so [...]

I'm celebrating

Yay! After a long time of just considering it, I’m finally blogging. Such a relief.

As we approach the longest night of the year here in the northern hemisphere, I’m celebrating a couple of big events in my life, which I’ll mention in chronological order. On October 1, my new book, Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding, [...]

New Ina May Video on Youtube

Midwife Ina May Gaskin shows panels from the Safe Motherhood Quilt, which honors women who have died of pregnancy-related causes; the huge majority of those deaths were preventable. She contrasts the UK’s excellent maternal mortality program with the US’s almost nonexistent one and suggests the US follow the UK’s lead. She says the first thing [...]

Ina May Awarded Honorary Doctorate

INA MAY GASKIN AWARDED HONORARY DOCTORATE

FOR DEMONSTRATING EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF MIDWIFERY

LONDON—Ina May Gaskin, of Summertown, Tennessee, was awarded the title “Honorary Doctor” by the Thames Valley University, London, England, on November 24, 2009. The award was presented by the faculty of the Health and Human Sciences division of the [...]