Theme: Trauma and Healing
Whether the trauma occurs in childhood, during pregnancy, or during birth, it can affect a woman during her childbearing year—and can affect partners, as well. This issue is full of articles that deal with preventing or healing trauma. Beth Barbeau shares a variety of tools, including naturopathic remedies, emotional and energetic support and herbal support among them. Gomer Ben Moshe tells of how a trauma survivor is supported in a c-section and Lori Barklage tells us how to recognize and heal trauma based on her RISE Up program, among others. We also include thought-provoking articles on “Revitalizing Midwifery” by Jasmine Krapf and “Birth Behind Bars” by Mary Ann Lieser, and much more!
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Lindsey Rivera—BornBirthStories.com
Photo Album Issue 130
Photo by Irina Murza
Midwifery & Childbirth News: Summer 2019 Issue 130 Read more…. Midwifery & Childbirth News: Issue 130
Photo by Samuel Lee
How Do You Work with Women Who Have Had Trauma in a Previous Birth or in Life? Conversations from Facebook
Media Reviews: Issue 130
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth, These Are My Hours, and Dissident Doctor: Catching Babies and
Challenging the Medical Status Quo Read more…. Media Reviews: Issue 130
Photo by Vince Fleming
A doula delves deep into the role of the doula—what it is, what is could be, what it should be, and why we need to seriously consider it Read more…. Revitalizing Midwifery: Reimagining the Doula’s Role
International Association of Professional Birth Photographers 2019 Competition
Read more…. International Association of Professional Birth Photographers 2019 Competition
Photo by Cheryl Holt
This article addresses the 20-week ultrasound that is now standard for some pregnant women and a case in which not having one done saved the mother from a cesarean.
Photo by Manuel Schinner
A new midwife of color tells about some challenges she faced in her journal through midwifery school and how her first year as a midwife is now bearing fruit. Read more…. Life of a New Midwife: The Heart of Healing
Photo by Dexter Chatuluka
Midwives, as well as their clients, become traumatized and need compassionate care. This article encourages us to take care of ourselves too.
Photo by Mabel Amber
Whether naturopathy, herbalism, homeopathy, counseling, or energy work—all are tools for to help birthworkers ease grief and birth trauma in their clients. Read more…. Tools for Easing Grief and Birth Trauma
Photo by Denis Oliveira
With mass incarceration in the US, we now have more women of childbearing age in prison than ever before. Lieser discusses the shortcomings of giving birth behind bars, and how doulas can help support these women to have a better birth. Read more…. Birth Behind Bars: The Difference Trauma-informed Doula Care Can Make
Eva Diana—evadiana.com
Reflections of a day in the life of a midwife in Jerusalem.
