Editorial

Evidence-Based Midwifery: Midwifery Knowledge

For this issue’s theme, we have gathered together some valuable information to tuck into your birthkit. From Gloria Lemay’s cautions about a rising trend in more unnecessary testing to a disturbing press release about the effects of formula feeding, we hope you will add it to your ever evolving midwifery knowledge.

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Pronunciamiento/Pronouncement

On September 24, 2003, a group of traditional midwives from Mexico gathered at the Iglesia de los Pobres, a church in Oaxaca de Juarez, to write these declarations about midwifery and birth. Read more…. Pronunciamiento/Pronouncement

Voices Of Distress: Women Speak About Cesarean Sections

This is a compilation of women’s responses from the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) e-mail list (names appear as requested by contributors). One woman asked a simple question to help persuade her friend: What’s so bad about cesarean sections? Almost 75 women responded. These are just some of their poignant accounts, which illustrate the reason that instinctive birth is so important. The further we stray from it, the more women lose, emotionally, spiritually and physically.

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