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 Hospital
Judy 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 Davis
Heather 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
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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