The Miracle of Birth When I heard Krystal’s story of birth it brought me right back to the home births of each of my three children. Natural childbirth is, without a doubt, the most beautiful and magical of life’s experiences. Sadly, the medicalization of birth, and the media’s portrayal of of natural birth as a...
The Human Brain: Use it or lose it Nicholas Kristof recently wrote a wonderful article: When Our Brains Short-Circuit. The article describes how our brains “systematically misjudge certain kinds of risks.” Above all else, evolution has programmed us for survival. One basic survival mechanism, hardwired into the most primitive part of our brain, is our...
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