Fernando Molina

Fernando Molina, BS, MD, midwife, prenatal educator, researcher, and Midwifery Today speaker has been traveling a long career as a natural birth advocate in hospitals, birth centers, and at homebirths in Venezuela and the US. Fernando now lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is a father of three children born at home in Venezuela. Follow him on Instagram @magicalbeginningsfm or contact him at fmolina55@gmail.com.

Digital art painting of mother and baby in pool

Holly Noelle—instagram.com/hollynoelleart

Homebirth: Living a Life-transforming Experience beyond Fear

by Fernando Molina December 10, 2020

Fear during labor and birth at home must be addressed with a different scope than what the literature reviews tell us. Let’s go beyond what mind-body medicine has taught us. Now is time for the soul-heart-mind-body connection and the well-known generational transmission of stress response with which, according to midwife Anita Rojas, we now can change the message by transforming the energy of our “mamas” during prenatals or labor.

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Chinelle Rojas—tampabirthphotographer.com

First Stage of Labor … My Reflections

by Fernando Molina March 21, 2019

We know that how a pregnant woman experiences, evaluates, and copes with labor depends on: where and with whom she is during labor; her personality; her past experiences dealing with love, empathy, compassion, depression, anxiety, and stressful life events; as well as her partner and providers—whether midwives, doctors, or doulas. Read more…. First Stage of Labor … My Reflections

Esther Edith—estheredith.com

Umbilical Cord Prolapse

by Fernando Molina December 1, 2018

Obstetrician/midwife Fernando Molino discusses the complication of cord prolapse, its different types, risk factors, and how to deal with it when it occurs.

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Microbiome and Health

by Fernando Molina December 1, 2016

So what exactly is the microbiome? We could define it as the combined grouping of microorganisms that can be found throughout the body, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Read more…. Microbiome and Health

Photo by Alex Kahler

Early Child Development: Setting the Basis for Effective Communication with Your Unborn Child

by Fernando Molina December 1, 2015

Even before conception, and during their life in the womb and the first year of extra-uterine life, all babies experience the feeling of being desired and loved, which is the source of all aspects of life, where there are no opposites, no judgments, no criticism, no condemnation, no discrimination; it is just pure love and surrender during the first phases of consciousness. …

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Photos by Fernando Molina

Waterbirth Anecdotes from Puerto Ardaz, Venezuela (1996-2013)

by Fernando Molina September 1, 2015

Midwifery Today conference teacher Fernando Molina shares some of his waterbirth experience from when he assisted births in Venezuela.

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Photos provided by the author Fernando III with mom Haylen and dad Fernando, “el Partero”

My Journey into Planned Homebirth in Venezuela

by Fernando Molina March 1, 2010

A Venezuelan doctor dedicates himself to attending homebirths in his country despite the obstacles thrown at him by government officials, other doctors and others who refuse to see past the accepted, technocratic model of birth. Read more…. My Journey into Planned Homebirth in Venezuela

Opciones de Parto en Venezuela

by Fernando Molina June 1, 2008

article in Spanish; One of the “good guys,” Fernando Molina enlightens us on the situation regarding birth choices in Venezuela, in both Spanish in this online article and in English in Midwifery Today Issue 86. Read more…. Opciones de Parto en Venezuela

Birth Choices in Venezuela

by Fernando Molina June 1, 2008

One of the “good guys,” Fernando Molina enlightens us on the situation regarding birth choices in Venezuela, in both Spanish and English. Read more…. Birth Choices in Venezuela