E-books from Midwifery Today
Collections of articles from Midwifery Today magazine
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Second Stage: The Pushing Phase of Labor
- Chapter 1: “Understanding Stages of Labour after the Paradigm Shift” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 2: “An Overview of Upright Positions during Second Stage Labor” by Jeri Layer
- Chapter 3: “Second Stage Evolution” by Elizabeth Allemann
- Chapter 4: “Why Wait until Second Stage?” by Carol Gray
- Chapter 5: “Allowing Birth to Be Birth” by Kristi Zittle
- Chapter 6: “Getting Pushy” by Alison Bastien
- Chapter 7: “Midwifing Second Stage” by Sister MorningStar
- Chapter 8: “Redefining Normal” by Elizabeth Perry
- Chapter 9: “Supporting Motherbaby in Second Stage Waterbirth” by Cornelia Enning
- Chapter 10: “Getting to Second Stage” by Carol Gautschi
Birth Stories
- Chapter 1: “Homebirth through a Mother’s Eyes” by Mary Kury
- Chapter 2: “Enoch’s Home Waterbirth after Four C-sections” by April Bailey
- Chapter 3: “Father’s Experience of Birth” by Ervin Beachy
- Chapter 4: “A Midwife’s Gift: Olivia’s Birth Story” by Laura Thompson Shive
- Chapter 5: “Selah’s Beginnings” by Ian Penwell
- Chapter 6: “Caleb’s Birth” by Nikki Dauphin
- Chapter 7: “Husband-Assisted Homebirth” by John Paul
- Chapter 8: “There and VBAC Again” by Kelcey Boyce
- Chapter 9: “The Waterbirth of Maggie Cate” by Traci Coburn
- Chapter 10: “Footling Breech: A Midwife’s Own Birth Story” by Veronica Wagner
- Chapter 11: “Late in the Game” by Kelly Martin
- Chapter 12: “Six Days, Two Healthy Babies, One Extraordinary Birth” by Lana Shlafer
- Chapter 13: “Touched a Nerve” by Linda Magid
- Chapter 14: “’Home Away from Home’ Birth” by Krista Cornish Scott
- Chapter 15: “From Fear to Peace: Jeremy’s Birth Story” by Sarah David
- Chapter 16: “The System That Worked” by Jenna Hull
- Chapter 17: “The Perfect Mantra” by Kristin Love Nemzer
- Chapter 18: “Pascual’s Beautiful Home Waterbirth in Malaysia” by Vanessa Beyer
- Chapter 19: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by Michelle Vlad
- Chapter 20: “Faith’s Birth: An Amazing Blessing” by Christa Bartley
- Chapter 21: “The Power of Story” by Sister MorningStar
Breech Birth
- Chapter 1: “The Safest Kind of Breech” by Marion Toepke McLean
- Chapter 2: “A Happy Collaboration” by Joni Nichols
- Chapter 3: “Bruno’s Birth Story” by Ada da Silva
- Chapter 4: “Midwifery Model of Care: On Breech Birth” by Carol Gautschi
- Chapter 5: “Pushing of Breech” by Elizabeth Smith
- Chapter 6: “Thoughts on Breech Birth” by Gloria Lemay
- Chapter 7: “A Not-So-Lost Art” by Danniele Carlisle
- Chapter 8: “Instinctual Breech Birth” by Sister MorningStar
- Chapter 9: “Breech Birth from a Primal Health Research Perspective” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 10: “Miracle Birth” by Marlene Waechter
- Chapter 11: “Human Rights for Breech Mamas” by Marion Toepke McLean
- Chapter 12: “Effective Alternative Treatments for Breech Presentation” by Julie Brill
- Chapter 13: “Beautiful Breech Homebirth” by Anonymous in Albuquerque
- Chapter 14: “A Difficult Breech Birth” by Marion Toepke McLean
- Chapter 15: “Three Surprise Breeches” by Ina May Gaskin
The Third Stage of Labor
- Chapter 1: “Placenta Accreta” by Marion Toepke McLean
- Chapter 2: “The Care and Keeping of Placentas” by Jodi Selander
- Chapter 3: “Cord Burning” by Kelly Dunn
- Chapter 4: “Placenta Medicine: My Story” by Tiffany Rosenbrock
- Chapter 5: “On Meconium at Home and Delayed Cord-cutting” by Naolí Vinaver
- Chapter 6: “Placenta Rituals and Folklore from Around the World” by Sarah J. Buckley
- Chapter 7: “Placentophagia: Stir-fry, Smoothie or Raw?” by Wendy Lubell-Snyder, with Tammi McKinley
- Chapter 8: “Third Stage of Labor: Hands Off and Have Patience” by Christy Fiscer
- Chapter 9: “The Bridge of Life: Options for Placentas” by Kelly Graff
- Chapter 10: “The Color of Goldenrod” by Janice Marsh-Prelesnik
- Chapter 11: “The Problem Is Induction, Not Meconium” by Gail Hart
- Chapter 12: “Tsunami Midwives: Learning to Burn the Umbilical Cord” by Robin Lim, Harvest Rowena Alcock and Kelly Dunn
- Chapter 13: “Velamentous Birth Story” by Jana Voelke Studelska
- Chapter 14: “Knitted Noggins: Rethinking the Newborn Cap” by Nicole Deelah
- Chapter 15: “A Natural Approach to the Third Stage of Labour: A Look at Early Cord Clamping, Cord Blood Harvesting and other Medical Interference” by Sarah J. Buckley
Breastfeeding
- Chapter 1: “The Role of the Shy Hormone in Breastfeeding” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 2: “Biological Nurturing: The Laid-back Breastfeeding Revolution” by Suzanne Colson
- Chapter 3: “Candida versus Breastfeeding: Which Is Winning?” by PJ Jacobsen
- Chapter 4: “Daniel: A Breastfeeding Challenge Overcome” by Joni Nichols
- Chapter 5: “HIV and Breastfeeding: What We Do and Do Not Know in 2005” by Nancy Miller
- Chapter 6: “Milk Supply: You Have Enough” by Lina Duncan
- Chapter 7: “Breastfeeding Duration and Mother-to-Mother Support” by Nancy Mohrbacher and Sharon Knorr
- Chapter 8: “Midwives: Guardians of Nature’s Design” by Kimberly Durdin
- Chapter 9: “Reclaiming the Art of Breastfeeding” by Indira Lopez Bassols
- Chapter 10: “Supporting Mothers in Long-term Breastfeeding” by Janell E. Robisch
- Chapter 11: “Breastfeeding Milla” by Angela Worthington
- Chapter 12: “Breastfeeding and Newborn Survival” by Amanda Penwell
- Chapter 13: “The Four Pillars of Safe Breast Milk Sharing” by Shell Walker and Maria Armstrong
- Chapter 14: “A Mom’s Breastfeeding Adventure” by Alicia Kaye
- Chapter 15: “My Nursing Journey” by Janelle Rice
Waterbirth
- Chapter 1: “What I learned from the First Hospital Birthing Pool” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 2: “A Lovely Way to Enter the World” by Judy Edmunds
- Chapter 3: “Henry’s Waterbirth” by Christine Gibson
- Chapter 4: “Aquadurals and Douladurals Replace the Epidural” by Judith Elaine Halek
- Chapter 5: “Journey to the Water” by Kristi Zittle
- Chapter 6: “Waterbirth Makes the Midwife’s Job Easier” by Samantha McCormick
- Chapter 7: “A Landmark in the History of Birthing Pools” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 8: “Benjamin’s Waterbirth” by Rhonda Shaw
- Chapter 9: “Waterbirth-A Safe and Natural Delivery Method: Experience after 1355 Waterbirths in Italy” by Albin Thöni and Ludwig Moroder
- Chapter 10: “My Waterbirth” by Simone Snyder
- Chapter 11: “Waterbirth: Contemporary Application for Historic Concepts” by Cornelia Enning
- Chapter 12: “How to Make a Portable Waterbirth Tub” by Melanie Moore
- Chapter 13: “Waterbirth with a Blind Mother” by Cornelia Enning
- Chapter 14: “Waterbirth and GBS” by Judy Slome Cohain
- Chapter 15: “Waterbirths in the United Kingdom” by Dianne Garland
- Chapter 16: “Waterbirth Basics: From Newborn Breathing to Hospital Protocols” by Barbara Harper
Birth Wisdom from Michel Odent
- Chapter 1: “When Love Hormones Become Useless”
- Chapter 2: “Should Midwives Reinvent the Amnioscope?”
- Chapter 3: “Occiput Posterior Position Should Be Exceptionally Rare at Birth”
- Chapter 4: “Primal Health: History of a Concept”
- Chapter 5: “The Role of the Shy Hormone in Breastfeeding”
- Chapter 6: “Dispelling Disempowering Birth Vocabulary”
- Chapter 7: “A Landmark in the History of Birthing Pools”
- Chapter 8: “The Function of Joy in Pregnancy”
- Chapter 9: “What Really Matters Is Our Primal Health”
- Chapter 10: “Understanding Stages of Labour after the Paradigm Shift”
- Chapter 11: “The Future of Obstetric Technology”
- Chapter 12: “If I Were the Baby: Questioning the Widespread Use of Synthetic Oxytocin”
- Chapter 13: “Breech Birth from a Primal Health Research Perspective”
- Chapter 14: “Preventing Shoulder Dystocia”
- Chapter 15: “Childbirth from a Bacteriological Perspective”
- Chapter 16: “Eat Sardines, Be Happy…and Sing!”
- Chapter 17: “How Aphrodite, Buddha and Jesus Developed Their Capacity to Love”
- Chapter 18: “Champagne and the Fetus Ejection Reflex”
- Chapter 19: “The First Hour Following Birth: Don’t Wake the Mother!”
- Chapter 20: “Knitting Midwives for Drugless Childbirth”
- Chapter 21: “Preparing the Nest”
- Chapter 22: “Routine versus Selective Strategies in Postmaturity”
- Chapter 23: “Putting an End to Women’s Global Slaughter: Bleeding to Death”
- Chapter 24: “Doula Phenomenon and Authentic Midwifery: Protection as a Keyword”
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