Twelve Months of [insert your blog here]…

Seeing how it is December, it is time for a year in review. There is no better bloggy way than this meme.

The rules for this blog meme are quite simple.
-Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of the past year.

For your browsing pleasure, I’ll round up…
Twelve Months of

• DrugMonkey
• The Prodigal Academic
• Deep Sea News
• The Spandrel Shop (Prof-like Substance)
• The Urban Ethnographer (kdcosta)
• Genomic Repairman
• Pondering Blather (Odyssey)
• Anthropology in Practice
• Thus Spake Zuska
• The Thoughtful Animal (Jason G. Goldman)
• It’s a Micro World after all (Thomas Joseph)
• Neurodynamics
• Denim and Tweed (Yoder)

On HomeBirthers

dying of a compound fractured leg- totes natural

assorted infections and pathogens- the human species has survived them for millenia, they are TOTES natural!

Black Plague death of millyuns- NATURAL!

Myopia is motherfucking NATURE talking to your ass!

I am not truly ALIVE as a motherfucking MAN of the Homo sapiens (hear me fucking ROAR) unless I make it without any fucking sissy ass trappings of modern life that make it less risky to be…ALIVE!!!!!!

YES! Natural F. T. M. H. W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Oh, and if you need a motherfucking “doula” to assist with the birth you’ve crossed that bescumbered rubicon of the uNnatUral already—-GET THEE TO YON THICKET, O GRAVID-PERSON!!!!)

Update:
the current argument seems to be that if you get some perfectly manicured “low risk” pregnancy and you have a “birth center” (with well trained staff*) right across the street from an emergency room than everything comes up roses in the data. And nevermind at all that this carefully constructed argument is going to be used to extend to homebirthing and high-risk or medium-risk pregnancies. nevermind low incidence “we didn’t see THAT one coming” emergencies, etc. and then they have the the chutzpah to compare to average or worst-case in-hospital situations as far as I can tell. Or point to anecdotes about fuckups as a triumphant argument.

You have to be kidding me.

*and I am certainly more about the specific training then I am about a MD.

Update 2:

Go Read The Tragic Deathtoll of Homebirth.