Cynthia Luxford

Cynthia Luxford, LDM, CPM, lives in Otis, Oregon, with her husband and two teenage daughters. She has been practicing on the central Oregon coast for ten years.

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Why Apprentices?

by Cynthia Luxford June 1, 2006

An apprentice-trained and apprentice-training midwife praises this model of midwifery education, describing briefly what it entails.

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