Amy Tuteur

Amy Tuteur, M.D.

Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist and author of How Your Baby Is Born. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children and now blogs at The Skeptical OB.
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What Ricki Lake Doesn’t Tell You About Homebirth

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It sounds great. Give birth at home, surrounded by only those you know and trust, and avoid unnecessary interventions in the birth process. If you’ve seen The Business of Being Born, talk show host Ricki Lake’s paean to home birth, you may be tempted. Now that Lake is issuing four follow-up educational DVDs called More Business [...]

The Myths of Natural Childbirth

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Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry about the right way to give birth. They shouldn’t, because there is no right way. Surprisingly, despite its nearly total cultural embrace, [...]