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It’s Conference Planning Time Again!
Jan tells us about the conferences—US and international—being planned now that the pandemic has settled down. Read more…. It’s Conference Planning Time Again!
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Anti-D: Reflecting on a Journey
Some 25 years ago, two pregnant women asked me the same question within weeks of each other. This is perhaps not that remarkable a statement from a midwife. We do, after all, answer questions and offer information for a living. Read more…. Anti-D: Reflecting on a Journey
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Photo Album – Issue 138
Photo Album – Issue 138
Photographer and videographer: Eva Diana Iguaran—evadiana.com
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A Midwife Mourns
The story of a homeborn baby who dies of SIDS two months later, in a local hospital after attempts at resuscitation. The homebirth midwife shares her story.
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Stories! Stories! More Glory Stories, Please!
Too few wimyn spiraling through maidenhood, motherhood, cronehood hear of the innate powerhouse of sacred feminine energy that is their very nature. Sheroic stories perk the ears of all such wimyn. I am a lover and preserver of stories.
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Recommending Acupuncture in Midwifery Care
The thousands-of-years-old practice of acupuncture is a perfect integrative complement to midwifery care. The practice involves the insertion of fine, stainless steel, filiform needles at acupuncture points along the body.
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Becoming a Trauma-sensitive Birthkeeper
Working with women in a very difficult period as a doula and counsellor, I see it as integral to not neglect the unresolved effects of the past on the needs, behaviour, and emotions of my clients. While some of my clients are open, have a positive view of the future, and are filled with joy, others are tied to their old traumatic experiences and belief systems. Read more…. Becoming a Trauma-sensitive Birthkeeper
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Always a Midwife
I sit here at my computer, remembering my years as a working midwife. I still consider myself a midwife, but I am now retired. Read more…. Always a Midwife
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Ecstatic Birth: Radical Act of Reclamation
There are so many ways that we define birth—by what it looks like and how we navigate labor and delivery. As birthworkers and mothers, some of these are choices that we deeply desire, plan, and advocate for, and some are not.
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Bridget “Biddy” Mason: A Black Pioneer Midwife of Nineteenth-century Los Angeles
A midwife, a cattle-herder, a cross-country pioneer, a slave set free, a landowner in Los Angeles, a founder of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, and a wealthy woman and socially prominent philanthropist: Bridget “Biddy” Mason was all of these and much more.
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Dealing with Differences in Autism
I am autistic. In previous articles I have written about how masking my autism made it difficult for my midwives to give me the care I needed and about the adjustments my local midwife team made for me when we finally realised how significant my being autistic was to my access to health care. In this article I talk about my experiences after birth.
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Wisdom of the Midwives: Shoulder Dystocia
Wisdom of the Midwives: Shoulder Dystocia – Issue 137
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