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Midwifery Today, Issue 77, Spring 2006

Issue 77: 20th Anniversary
Theme: 20th Anniversary
Cover photo by Minhoon Kim

Departments:

4 Poetry
5 From the Editor—20 Years of Carrying Out a Calling
6 Networking
6 Tricks of the Trade
7 Midwifery Model of Care—Phase II: Midwife Lessons
10 Marion's Message
56 Media Reviews—including Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The wisdom and science of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting, Voices of Maya Midwives: Oral Histories of Practicing Traditional Midwives from the Mam Region of Guatemala, Compendium for a Health Pregnancy and a Normal Birth, Stars of the Sky and Dancing Waters
58 News
70 Classified Advertising
70 Calendar
73 Photo Album

Features:

10 Midwives, Mothers and Mothers-in-law—Marion McLean
14 Mothers: Birth Helpers, Bosses or Intruders?—Michele Klein
16 Vaginal Births After C-section Are Not Necessarily Riskier in a Birth Center than in the HospitalJudy Slome Cohain
18 Prenatal Diagnosis—Technological Triumph or Pandora's Box?—Sarah J. Buckley
20 A Road Home—Rebecca Holdsworth
22 Sexual Abuse and Pregnancy—A Homeopath's Perspective—Piper Martin
25 Sage-femme—Kara Maia Spencer
26 Leaving a Legacy: Tom Brewer, Joan Donley and Jeannine Parvati Baker
28 The Anatomy of a Miracle—Sara Schley
30 Elizabeth DavisHeather Long
32 At Home in Birth—Jana Voelke Studelska
38 HIV and Breastfeeding: What We Do and Do Not Know in 2005—Nancy Miller
40 The Business of Midwifery: Documentation for Success III—Homebirth—Linda Lieberman
42 Miracle Birth—Marlene Waechter

International Midwife:

44 Cards & Letters
45 A Mexican Adventure—Judi Plummer
47 Red Internacional de Parteras Independientes (RIPI)—Cristina Alonso
48 Guatemala: Has the Time Come for a National Midwifery Certification Program?—Kristen Marsh and Jennifer Houston
51 Anciona Juarez Arrosco (online only in Spanish)—Sarah Proechel
54 I Was Blessed: A Lay Midwife's Story—Vanessa Brooks

 

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