Question of the Quarter: What is your favorite waterbirth story?
Q: What is your favorite waterbirth story? Read more…. Question of the Quarter: What is your favorite waterbirth story?
Jan Tritten
Jan Tritten is the founder, editor, and mother of Midwifery Today magazine and conferences. Her love for and study of midwifery sprang from the beautiful homebirth of her second daughter—after a disappointing, medicalized first birth in the hospital. After giving birth at home, she kept studying birth books because, “she thought there was something more here.” She became a homebirth midwife in 1977 and continued helping moms who wanted a better birth experience. Jan started Midwifery Today in 1986 to spread the good word about midwifery care, using her experience to guide editorial and conferences. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies in the United States and around the world. Meet Jan at our conferences around the world!
Let’s Work Together
A global alliance of midwives would promote the midwifery model worldwide, not the medical model. It would emphasize woman-centered birth with autonomous midwives who work at home, birth center or hospital. Read more…. Let’s Work Together
Global Alliance of Midwives
Nothing short of a strong global movement will change birth. What we need is you, your suggestions and input. Let’s ponder how best to foster these needed changes together. Read more…. Global Alliance of Midwives
The Personality of Birth
I love it that you never really know the personality of each birth until it unfolds. Birth, the interaction of mother, baby and family with all their past and present, is the doorway to the future and will be decorated in its own way. Read more…. The Personality of Birth
Freedom
The empirical midwife movement in the United States is one of those few islands where technology, money and brainwashing haven’t taken over common sense, evidence, and woman centeredness. Read more…. Freedom
Una Rosa Con Cualquier Otro Nombre
Existe una batalla actualmente, por el alma misma de la parteria. Simplemente porque llamemos al trabajo que hacemos ‘parteria’, no implica que eso sea lo que estamos haciendo. Read more…. Una Rosa Con Cualquier Otro Nombre
First Do No Harm
When I began to practice midwifery nearly 20 years ago, the fight against the unnecessary use of technology seemed daunting. Ten years ago when Midwifery Today was first published, I thought we were on the road to healing birth. Today it resembles a bad science fiction movie. Read more…. First Do No Harm
Love that Protects
As childbirth attendants, we must vigorously protect the birthing woman and her baby against wrong information, overly interventive technology, a convoluted system of law and medical ignorance that fuel interventive technology, and individuals who do not have her best interests at heart. Read more…. Love that Protects
Giving Voice to Wisdom
The orthodoxy of today’s technological birth procedures is built on false foundations masquerading in the name of science, but whose master is often fear of malpractice. Read more…. Giving Voice to Wisdom
To Learn to Grow
Feeding the heart of midwifery through support, good counsel, and continuing education has always been the end goal of our efforts at Midwifery Today. Read more…. To Learn to Grow
Making the New Way
Learn what led Jan Tritten (Mother of Midwifery Today) into midwifery. Read more…. Making the New Way
Toward Equilibrium
Do midwives have a responsibility to functional family life? Can we help teach mothers both the significance of their new role, and the skills that will be required of them? Read more…. Toward Equilibrium
