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Peggy O’Mara is the mother of four grown children. She has gained international celebrity as publisher, editor and owner of Mothering Magazine. She is also the author of four books: Having a Baby Naturally: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting, The Way Back Home: Essays on Life and Family, and A Quiet Place: Essays on Life and Family. A dynamic speaker, she has lectured and conducted workshops in conjunction with organizations such as the Omega Institute, Esalen, La Leche International, and Bioneers. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and has been featured in national publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Mother Earth News, and Utne Reader |   |
A Quiet Place Archives
by Peggy O'Mara, Editor and Publisher
In the fall 1980 issue of Mothering, we reprinted "The Cesarean Epidemic," by Gena Corea, originally published in the July 1980 edition of Mother Jones. In her article, Corea bemoaned the rising rate of cesarean sections in the US, which in the previous ten years had tripled, to the 1980 high of 16.5 percent: "As recently as 1965, doctors who exceeded a five percent C-section rate were generally suspected of gross incompetence."
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Who Wants to Sleep Alone? Issue 149
Where's Joseph? Issue 148
A Birth Renaissance Issue 147
Trust Yourself Issue 146
Sustainable You Issue 145
In Breastfeeding in Trouble? Issue 144
Our Low-Carbon Diet Issue 143
Everybody Gets the Blues Issue 142
Sleeping With Your Baby Issue 141
Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly Issue 140
Reclaiming a New Archetype Issue 139
A Tale of Two Diapers Issue 138
My Mothering Monologue Issue 137
30 Years of Mothering Issue 136
Food Rotation Blues Issue 135
Vaccinations: Why All The Fuss? Issue 134
Regrets Issue 133
Breastfeeding In Whose Public? Issue 132
Necessary Optimism Issue 131
What is Natural Family Living? Issue 130
Mothers and Fathers Issue 129
A Lantern For Lorri Issue 128
Instead Of Hitting Issue 127
In Their Hands Issue 126
Mercury Must Be Removed From Childhood Vaccines - Now! Issue 125
Is Anyone Listening to Parents? Issue 124
The Dastardly Deeds of the AAP Issue 123
Slow Lane Issue 122
Wake Up! Issue 121
Lee's Bed Issue 120
Gathering The Mothers Issue 119
Drilling For Hope Issue 118
Who Will Protect the Children? Issue 117
TV Is Not Good For Kids Issue 116
Just In Case Issue 115
The Safety of Babies Issue 113
We're More Than That Issue 112
Having a Baby in America Issue 111
Meaning and Belonging Issue 110
One World Issue 109
Resist Much Obey Little Issue 108
Turn Around and They're Grown Issue 107
Disturbing thePeace Issue 106
Eyes Wide Open Issue 105
Compatibility Issue 104
Democracy is for Children, Too Issue 103
It's Not Your Fault Issue 102
Your Will—Mine Issue 101
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