Spring 2000 Theme: Global Midwifery in the New Millennium “The greater the social need for aggression and an ability to destroy life, the more intrusive the rituals and beliefs have become in the period surrounding birth.” The Ethnological Approach-Comparing Cultures by Michel Odent, M.D.* How can we help to make midwife-attended birth the first choice… Read more…. Issue 53

Winter 1999 Theme: Alternative Practices Midwifery Today Issue 52 focuses on Alternative Practices, articles include “Chiropractic Care in Pregnancy” and “Providing Choice: Naturopathic Midwifery.” Buy This Issue Contents My Top 10 Favorite Complementary Modalities—Judy Edmunds Touching Lives—Keri Redding Providing Choice: Naturopathic Midwifery—Liz Collins Bodily Knowledge: The Wisdom of Nausea—Mavis Kirkham Chiropractic Care in Pregnancy—C. Karl Krantz… Read more…. Issue 52

Autumn 1999 Theme: Fathers In Pregnancy and Birth Dads feel all kinds of ways about taking part in their children’s births: ambivalent, joyous, helpful, helpless, awed, scared, bonded, confused. In Issue 51, eleven articles about fathers’ involvement in birth address every conceivable angle to this increasingly popular birth option. Articles on ultrasound, natural family planning, the… Read more…. Issue 51

Summer 1999 Theme: Homebirth Why homebirth? Issue 50 of Midwifery Today magazine explores numerous facets of this birth choice, from safety to autonomy, supplies to choosing a practitioner, healing past birth experiences, drug-free birth, self-empowerment, and more. Three favorite homebirth stories told by midwives help you understand the simplicity and joy of homebirth. “Homebirth allows the… Read more…. Issue 50

Spring 1999 Theme: Bridging the Gap Get in on the discussion about midwifery in the United States. Where is it going? Is everyone in this together or are different kinds of midwives becoming alienated from one another? How do we achieve balance so more women who might choose midwife-attended birth are better served? Issue 49… Read more…. Issue 49

Autumn 1998 Theme: Normal Birth Issue 47 asked the question, “What is normal birth?” and received an outpouring of interpretations from many kinds of birth practitioners, mothers, a therapist and an educator. The physiological process of delivering a baby can be interpreted in myriad ways: Read this issue and come to your own conclusions about what… Read more…. Issue 47

Summer 1998 Theme: Prolonged Labor If someone on the starting line said, “Listen, I can give you drugs to put you to sleep and you can wake up on the finish line,” do you think that person would have the same sense of accomplishment about finishing the race? Perhaps our culture-driven concern about prolonged labor robs… Read more…. Issue 46

Spring 1998 Theme: Birth Politics Birth, like just about anything else in human life, comes with its own set of politics. Read about the persecution of midwives/healers in Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe to grasp the reality of modern-day witch hunting directed against midwives. Other highlights of Issue 45 are an in-depth look at the effects… Read more…. Issue 45

Winter 1997 Theme: Trusting Birth On the other end of the spectrum from technocratic Western birth is the midwife’s simple trust in the normal, perfectly orchestrated processes of birth. Several articles describe and defend that trust. Issue 44 also  includes information on sterile water blocks, Part I of an article on baby slings, and a thorough… Read more…. Issue 44

Autumn 1997 Theme: Birth Change There are plenty of ways to initiate positive change in the choices women have about how they birth their babies. Several authors in Issue 43, including midwives, an anthropologist, a researcher, a doctor, a waterbirth expert and more tell us how to stand tall, accept the challenge to be a birth… Read more…. Issue 43

Summer 1997 Theme: Autonomy Autonomy and relatedness are not exclusive of each other, Marion Toepke McLean, CNM, maintains in her ongoing column, “Marion’s Message.” Several articles in Issue 42 support that theory while they explore why and how midwives and families can achieve autonomy in regard to birth and the practice of midwifery. An update on… Read more…. Issue 42