The Well-Rounded Mama

Not only do I want to write about pregnancy and birth in women of size, I also want to start some dialogue about fat parenting and the dilem...

Here we go again. A country's cesarean rate rises, and who do they blame? The fat women. Cause you know, anything that goes wrong has to...

Ah, medicine. Want to hear the latest excuse for the high c-section rate in fat women? It's because we all have high cholesterol, dontch...

Today we reprint excerpts from a birth story of a supersized woman who was horribly treated by her care providers during the birth of her so...

Another outrageous form of discrimination that some fat women are subject to is pressure to abort their baby. They are told that pregnancy a...

Sandy at Junkfood Science posted an interesting entry recently about how doctors and the media target fat women of childbearing age for sca...

Over the years, I have gotten many emails from women about fat-phobic care from doctors during pregnancy, or read similar stories on birth a...

One subtle form of discrimination against fat women in pregnancy is the high cesarean rate. When a c-section is needed and life-saving, it...

The purpose of this blog is to create an intersection of the fat-acceptance and birth worlds, two realms that rarely seem to overlap in the ...