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• Editorial: Here We Go Again - by Jan Tritten
  Another attack on homebirth and traditional midwifery comes, once again, from a very persuasive source - The Lancet medical journal. Within what seems like a good idea upon cursory review - establishing midwife-run birth centers around the world - comes another imperialistic onslaught...
• Editorial: Kitty Breastfeeding - by Jan Tritten
  Why don’t cats have breastfeeding problems? If we answer this we might have an answer to human breastfeeding problems. When Momma Cat had her babies—see last issue’s editorial—they began breastfeeding even before the other babies were born.
• Editorial: From Russia with Love - by Jan Tritten
  editorial, Jan Tritten, father, mother, birth, parents, homebirth, midwife, Midwifery Today Magazine. From Russia with Love by Jan Tritten. 2010 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.. Editor’s Note: This editorial originally appeared in. Midwifery Today, Issue 95. Autumn 2010..
• Editorial: Healing in Mexico - by Jan Tritten
  We began the Oaxaca, Mexico, conference with an exercise in global healing. Marina Alzugaray and Yeshi Sherover Neumann created the idea of splitting our group of about 275 people into "conquered" and "conquerors."
• Editorial: Education Priority Check - by Jan Tritten
  Your love of women, babies, families and each other needs to be your focus. You are answering a calling, one of service, not one that is self-serving.
• Editorial: Birth Is a Human Rights Issue: A Movement - by Jan Tritten
  Editor in chief Jan Tritten comments on the recent witch-hunt in Europe and on the state of motherbaby rights around the world, calling all natural birth practitioners and supporters to protect birth as an inalienable human right.
• Editorial: To Learn to Grow - by Jan Tritten
  Feeding the heart of midwifery through support, good counsel, and continuing education has always been the end goal of our efforts at Midwifery Today.
• Editorial: Enlisting Change Around the World - by Jan Tritten
  Since founding Midwifery Today magazine in 1986, I have had an interest in international midwifery. I have always had the feeling that the keys to helping and understanding the birth process would be found all over this marvelous globe with its many cultures.
• Editorial: Happy Birthday, Birth Change - by Jan Tritten
  Midwifery Today turns 19 years old in February of 2005. For me, that is nearly 20 years of working to change birth with Midwifery Today, plus over 10 years of homebirth practice, changing birth one motherbaby at a time.
• Editorial: Love that Protects - by Jan Tritten
  As childbirth attendants, we must vigorously protect the birthing woman and her baby against wrong information, overly interventive technology, a convoluted system of law and medical ignorance that fuel interventive technology, and individuals who do not have her best interests at heart.
• Editorial: Lessons from Kitty Birth: Using Placenta to Control Hemorrhage - by Jan Tritten
  I went to a totally beautiful and undisturbed birth today. Five of them, actually! The mother had the most natural births as we looked on, not disturbing her but just being “with woman.” With woman—with kitty.
• Editorial: First Do No Harm - by Jan Tritten
  Unfortunately, a new wave of technology and drugs has followed, and in our culture the use of drugs and high-tech procedures is considered innocent until proven guilty.
• Editorial: 20 Years of Carrying Out a Calling - by Jan Tritten
  I was in the midst of writing a book about my homebirth practice when God said to me, "No, do a magazine for midwives." In 20 minutes He dictated to me the exact pattern and plan of Midwifery Today magazine.
• Editorial: Babies Have Rights, Too - by Jan Tritten
  Editor-in-Chief Jan Tritten shares her thoughts on making the rights of the baby a part of the “Birth Is a Human Right” initiative.
• Editorial: Bahamas / Success on Many Levels - by Jan Tritten
  As Marina Alzugaray explains in Reclaiming a Cuban Heritage, the Bahamian midwives really know how to make others feel welcome to their country. They were so open and ready for us to be there with them at the Midwifery Today Bahamas conference in September; they made us feel a part of them.
• Editorial: Birth Change - by Jan Tritten
  One of my most important roles in my midwifery life is that of encourager. My desire is that you carry out the dreams given to you - and I know you have them. I delight in telling about people carrying out their dreams as a way, hopefully, to inspire you.
• Editorial: Bringing Good Birth to the Light - by Jan Tritten
  We are in a profession that can give the greatest joy humankind has known—birth. In Spanish, birth is termed a more poetic "dar a luz," bring to the light. We, as midwives, need to bring to the light the truth about what childbirth can be.
• Editorial: Business and Midwifery - by Jan Tritten
  Business is second nature to me; I really enjoy it. I have been making lemonade for 32 years now and have always known that if I wanted to be rich I could have franchised my successful lemonade stand, Family Homesteader. The calling of midwifery got in my way, though.
• Editorial: Our Decade of CHANGE - by Jan Tritten
  Another hopeful sign is that we are closer to reaching critical mass. When 15 percent of the people know the truth about birth and will tell their friends, then the whole world will know. How can we not have a violent society when the violence begins at birth?
• Editorial: First, Do No Harm - by Jan Tritten
  Editor-in-Chief Jan Tritten shares her thoughts on hemorrhage. “The most important thing I can say about hemorrhage is, ‘Don’t cause one.’”
• Editorial: A Circle of Midwives - by Jan Tritten
  As midwives, we are called to serve many kinds of women and families. These may include those with whom we do not resonate for one reason or another. You could be asked to serve a member of an ethnic group that is traditionally hostile to yours, a woman with widely divergent beliefs...
• Editorial: How Do You Feel About Giving Up Your Freedom? - by Jan Tritten
  I was shocked at this quote by Beverly Beech in the British Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services...
• Editorial: The Power Belongs to Motherbaby - by Jan Tritten
  While herbs and other remedies have their use in pregnancy, we need to remember that it's the women and their babies who actually do the birthing.
• Editorial: Technology: Stemming the Tide - by Jan Tritten
  Technology can make take away the beauty of birth, when used unnecessarily. Editor Jan Tritten argues that midwives are in a position to change the tide of unnecessary technology, using the evidence that is accruing.
• Editorial: A Trip to the Tropics - by Jan Tritten
  Marina Alzugaray and I went to the Bahamas on our way to the Trinidad International Confederation of Midwives conference to check into doing a Midwifery Today international conference there in September 2005.