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Media Reviews: Issue 130

Media Reviews: Issue 130
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth, These Are My Hours, and Dissident Doctor: Catching Babies and
Challenging the Medical Status Quo
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Revitalizing Midwifery: Reimagining the Doula’s Role

A doula delves deep into the role of the doula—what it is, what is could be, what it should be, and why we need to seriously consider it Read more…. Revitalizing Midwifery: Reimagining the Doula’s Role

International Association of Professional Birth Photographers 2019 Competition

International Association of Professional Birth Photographers 2019 Competition

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Prenatal Ultrasound and Gastroschisis

This article addresses the 20-week ultrasound that is now standard for some pregnant women and a case in which not having one done saved the mother from a cesarean.

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Life of a New Midwife: The Heart of Healing

A new midwife of color tells about some challenges she faced in her journal through midwifery school and how her first year as a midwife is now bearing fruit. Read more…. Life of a New Midwife: The Heart of Healing

Holding Space for Birthworkers

Midwives, as well as their clients, become traumatized and need compassionate care. This article encourages us to take care of ourselves too.

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Tools for Easing Grief and Birth Trauma

Whether naturopathy, herbalism, homeopathy, counseling, or energy work—all are tools for to help birthworkers ease grief and birth trauma in their clients. Read more…. Tools for Easing Grief and Birth Trauma

Birth Behind Bars: The Difference Trauma-informed Doula Care Can Make

With mass incarceration in the US, we now have more women of childbearing age in prison than ever before. Lieser discusses the shortcomings of giving birth behind bars, and how doulas can help support these women to have a better birth. Read more…. Birth Behind Bars: The Difference Trauma-informed Doula Care Can Make

A Day in the Life

Reflections of a day in the life of a midwife in Jerusalem.

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Fatherhood Following the Experience of Child Sexual Abuse

With parenting in Sweden being more inclusive of fathers, this timely piece reports on a study of characteristics of fathers who had previously been sexually abused.

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There You See It, There You Don’t? Postpartum Depression

Women can suffer from postpartum depression for a variety of reasons. Using real stories and common sense, Wainer helps us get to the root of some of the causes and how birthworkers can help them. Read more…. There You See It, There You Don’t? Postpartum Depression

Breaking the Silence

Midwives can not only help to prevent birth trauma, but can provide therapeutic healing. Learn about how you can be a valuable support person. Read more…. Breaking the Silence

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