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The Mindfulness of Midwifery: Creating a Practice with Intent

by Jodilyn Owen December 1, 2010

How can we help ourselves and other midwives not burn out from the time-consuming, all-encompassing work that is midwifery? In this article, author Jodilyn Owen offers some sound advice based on her own past struggles with time management and burnout.

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Lessons from Kitty Birth: Using Placenta to Control Hemorrhage

by Jan Tritten December 1, 2010

I went to a totally beautiful and undisturbed birth today. Five of them, actually! The mother had the most natural births as we looked on, not disturbing her but just being “with woman.” With woman—with kitty. Read more…. Lessons from Kitty Birth: Using Placenta to Control Hemorrhage

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Journey to the Water

by Kristi Zittle December 1, 2010

A retired midwife recounts her experiences with waterbirth and shows how she came full-circle with this particular birthing method.

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Birth Is a Human Rights Issue: A Movement

by Jan Tritten December 1, 2010

Editor in chief Jan Tritten comments on the recent witch-hunt in Europe and on the state of motherbaby rights around the world, calling all natural birth practitioners and supporters to protect birth as an inalienable human right. Read more…. Birth Is a Human Rights Issue: A Movement

Waterbirth and GBS

by Judy Slome Cohain December 1, 2010

The literature suggests that low-risk women who give birth in water may have a far lower rate of newborn GBS than women who have a dry birth. Author, midwife and researcher Judy Slome Cohain culls through the research and delivers an in-depth look at waterbirth and GBS in this eye-opening article.

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Human Rights for Breech Mamas

by Marion Toepke McLean December 1, 2010

Marion reviews research on vaginal breech birth, defending access to safe, vaginal birth for breech babies.

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The Second Was A Gift

by Lydia M. Josephson December 1, 2010

The author overcomes her fears during her second birth and doesn’t let the string of “what ifs” overcome her determination to birth naturally, at home and in the water.

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My Waterbirth

by Simone Snyder December 1, 2010

Water plays a key role in this sweet story of a home waterbirth.

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A Motherless Mother

by Rea Bochner December 1, 2010

A mother shares a bittersweet tale of birthing her second child naturally and beautifully in the comfort of her own home — the same home in which her mother had recently died.