Issue 61
Spring 2002
Theme: Postpartum
Articles in this issue of Midwifery Today include:
- The First Hour Following Birth: Don’t Wake the Mother!
- How I Overcame Postpartum Depression
- Womb to World: A Metabolic Perspective
- Postpartum: Rebirth of the Woman
- Shiatsu: Another Tool for Keeping Birth Normal
- How to Make a Portable Waterbirth Tub
- Are You a Size-Friendly Midwife?
Cover Photo by Harriette Hartigan
Departments
- From the Editor: Sacred Ground
- Poetry
- Networking
- Tricks of the Trade
- Marion’s Message
- Question of the Quarter
“What are the essential elements of good postpartum care? What is your most noteworthy postpartum experience, and what was the outcome?” - Journal Abstracts
- Media Reviews
- News
- Classified Advertising
- Calendar
- Photo Album
Contents
- The First Hour Following Birth: Don’t Wake the Mother—Michel Odent
- Womb to World: A Metabolic Perspective—Suzanne Colson
- What Midwives Need to Know about Postpartum Depression—Diana Lynn Barnes
- Postpartum Psychosis—Robin Lim
- How I Overcame Postpartum Depression—Joli Furnari
- Baby’s Bedding: Is It Creating Toxic Nerve Gases?—Joanne B. Quinn
- Postpartum Care from Ancient India—Marci Freeman
- Having a Healthy, Happy Postpartum—Jennifer Rosenberg
- The Fourth Trimester—Jill Cohen
- Are You a Size-Friendly Midwife?—Pamela Vireday
- Birth of a Midwife—Amanda Moore
- Challenging Births 3—Sara Wickham
- Postpartum: Rebirth of the Woman—Robin Lim
- How to Make a Portable Waterbirth Tub—Melanie Moore
- Shiatsu: Another Tool for Keeping Birth Normal—Suzanne Yates
- Keeping the Faith—Julie Wall and David Carwardine
- Birth, Love and Death—Nick Owen
- Loss and the Midwifery Community—Joanne Dozor
International Midwife
- Editorial: How Do You Feel about Giving Up Your Freedom?
- Paris, 2001: Midwifery Today International Conference—Jan Tritten
- Cards and Letters
- Cuban Maternity Homes—Heather Renz
- Peru: Midwifery on High—Ruth Madison
- Birth in India: One Chosen Perspective—Diane Smith
- The Dutch Model: Postpartum Care in The Netherlands—Mary C. Zwart
- From the United Kingdom—Jennifer Hall
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