Education Priority Check
Your love of women, babies, families and each other needs to be your focus. You are answering a calling, one of service, not one that is self-serving. Read more…. Education Priority Check
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A Word to Fathers
As a father, you play a vital role in pregnancy and birth. Since you are responsible for getting the baby in, you are also a major support for getting the baby out. Read more…. A Word to Fathers
Providing Effective Prenatal Care: Focus on the Vision
Conceptualizing the ideal outcome is an essential first step in providing effective prenatal care, as it helps determine which subsequent actions will support (or detract from) the realization of your aspirations. [Then] Working backward…, form intermediate goals and step-by-step plans to reach them. Read more…. Providing Effective Prenatal Care: Focus on the Vision
Morning Sickness Impact Study
This article describes the reactions and perceptions of 122 women who experienced nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) and who subsequently responded to a questionnaire distributed in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area between Aug. 1, 1998, and Oct. 1, 1998. Read more…. Morning Sickness Impact Study
Prenatal Care CNM Style
Our clinic day begins at 9 a.m. with ‘Welcome, how are you?’ Smiles may greet us, with excited tales of the baby’s first kicks. Or a stone face may turn away, and our patient questioning of the pregnant mom elicit a story of trouble at home. Read more…. Prenatal Care CNM Style
Midwife’s Guide to an Intact Perineum
An intact perineum is the goal of every birthing woman. We love to have whole, healthy female genitalia. Many people consider the health of the vagina/perineum to be a matter of chance, luck or being at the mercy of the circumstances of the forces that prevail at the time of the birth. Read more…. Midwife’s Guide to an Intact Perineum
Professional?
What is a professional? How do we become professionals who serve women instead of ourselves? Is it possible? Read more…. Professional?
Grief, Fear and Pregnancy
In pregnancy, we often tell pregnant women that being happy, reducing stress and eating a nutritious diet are the best things a woman can do to ensure the health of her unborn baby. Read more…. Grief, Fear and Pregnancy
Ten Ways to Take Care of Yourself in Pregnancy
Throughout pregnancy, you and your baby will be happier, healthier and saner if you do the following… Read more…. Ten Ways to Take Care of Yourself in Pregnancy
Mamatoto
…there is an inexorable growing and deepening toward a certain eventuality that will forever change everyone involved. When the time is right, an amazing convergence of energies, emotions, and physicalities leads to an array of breathtaking events. Read more…. Mamatoto
Making a Difference: A Blueprint for Harmony
In many traditions, the father has the duty and honor to welcome the newborn to Earth. In these traditions, the first sound and the very first impression that the baby hears is the voice of her father. He will whisper in the left ear of his newborn the most sacred word known. Read more…. Making a Difference: A Blueprint for Harmony
Lorega, where this story is located, is a typical inner-city Asian slum where the poorest of the poor live in squatter shacks and hovels, surrounded by three graveyards and a slaughterhouse.
Philippines: In the Night Lorega
Lorega, where this story is located, is a typical inner-city Asian slum where the poorest of the poor live in squatter shacks and hovels, surrounded by three graveyards and a slaughterhouse. Read more…. Philippines: In the Night Lorega
