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The Phillips family, including mom Amanda, dad Ryan (second from left), and boys Asher (right) and Shepherd, celebrates with friends in India.

One Trip around the Sun

by | June 1, 2010

A father retells the story of his family’s year in India leading up to the birth of his second son, Shepherd Ketan.

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Medical Progress in 2110? A Parody

by | June 1, 2010

Moved by the thought that we should birth our children as we conceive them, a mother wonders what might happen if, 100 years from now, we conceive our children as we birth them—in a starkly lit hospital, monitors strapped on and specialists at the ready.

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Brazilian Love Rebels: Bringing Awareness and Consciousness to a Birth-broken Nation

by | June 1, 2010

Native Brazilian author Ana Paula Markel attends a birth conference in Brazil and finds a group of “Brazilian love rebels” leading a social revolution that questions unnecessary medical interventions and embraces empowered birth.

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Pushing Through: A Tale of Homebirth After Cesarean

by | June 1, 2010

Devastated by an unnecessary c-section, the author finds peace with her second birth: an unhurried home waterbirth attended by a midwife and doula.

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Author Vivienne Miranda, center, holds her new baby, Anuk, as midwife Ruth “Ruli” Delgado (second from right) and friends and family look on.

The New Generation of Rincoeño

by | June 1, 2010

A new mother recounts her homebirth, attended by Puerto Rico’s last traditional midwife, Ruth “Ruli” Delgado, who recently retired after more than 30 years and 400 babies.

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Alicia Kaye and new baby girl, Delilah Alexandra Pearl Kaye, relax with dad, Benjamin Kaye, and big brother, Calvin LaVere Kaye

The “Miracle” of Induction

by | June 1, 2010

After watching her mother grapple through a Pitocin/Cytotec induced birth, the author starts her quest to find a better, more natural, way of birthing.

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Brewer Babies

by | June 1, 2010

Confounded by a client who has already birthed several handicapped children, midwife Marlene Waechter utilizes the wisdom of Dr. Tom Brewer and finds that diet really does make a drastic difference to pregnant mamas and their babies.

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If I Were the Baby: Questioning the Widespread Use of Synthetic Oxytocin

by | June 1, 2010

Birth expert Michel Odent explores the scientific data collected on the most common intervention in childbirth—the use of synthetic oxytocin to start labor—and concludes that doctors “would be wise to make labor induction an exceptionally rare practice.”

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Breaking the Law: Midwives and Civil Disobedience

by | June 1, 2010

A brief history of midwives who have resisted unjust laws and continued to practice their craft, despite the threat of persecution.

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Facing Fears, Embracing Birth

by | June 1, 2010

A labor and delivery nurse who has delivered four children at the hospital, finds herself with a whole new perspective on birth after facing her fears and birthing her fifth child at home.

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Shedding Light on Maternal Mortality

by | June 1, 2010

The notion that, until we see through the oppressive forces that obscure the issue of safe birth for all women and babies, we won’t be able to think of birth as a human rights issue is at the heart of this essay.

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Learning to Listen

by | June 1, 2010

Women are being undermined in subtle, yet important ways inside the typical American labor and delivery ward, concludes certified nurse-midwife Sandra Stine Tallbear in this succinct essay about learning to truly listen to a mother’s needs.

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