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Despite a series of misadventures, the woman featured in this story has a nice birth.
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Contributing Editor Judy Slome Cohain writes about her experiences training to be a midwife.
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A first-person account of the effects of abuse prior to and during pregnancy.
The author tells us why she is involved in good birth, and how it can be healing for women with a history of abuse. Read more…. El parto como sanidad
Learn about the amazing placenta and its many uses.
Jan discusses how midwives can help with a problem that is rarely discussed: the impact of becoming a father on men who were abused. Read more…. Fathers Who Were Abused
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One of the authors of the new Motherbaby Press Book, Survivor Moms: Women’s Narratives of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse, provides a snapshot of types of trauma exposures reported by first-time mothers in the Midwest and how they relate to risk of PTSD.
The author argues that midwives don’t have to be expert therapists to help women who have been sexually traumatized; she can guide the woman through using birth as the healer.
Sharing her own experience, the author makes the case that every mom should have the right to have a midwife for her birth. Read more…. Midwifery Is Not a Luxury
Contributor and homeopath Piper Martin discusses the two most common homeopathic remedies for traumatic birth.
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The author tells us why she is involved in good birth, and how it can be healing for women with a history of abuse.
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This timely piece describes the problem of yeast infections and offers some solutions to resolving them so they don’t disrupt the breastfeeding relationship.
