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A Thousand Hats: Each Midwife’s Role(s)
There is a nursery rhyme that goes “Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.” Read more…. A Thousand Hats: Each Midwife’s Role(s)
Issue 141
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Photo Album – Issue 141
Mylo was beautifully born at home on a snowy January evening, just one day shy of 42 weeks gestation. He was a perfect 8 lb, 20-inch baby with no signs of being “postdate.” His birth is a testimony to practicing patience, really trusting birth, and the willingness to “go the distance.”
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Midwifery and Childbirth News – Issue 141
Midwifery and Childbirth News – Midwifery Today Issue 141 Read more…. Midwifery and Childbirth News – Issue 141
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Media Reviews – Issue 141
Media Reviews – Issue 141 – The AIMS Guide to Giving Birth to Your Baby. Principal author: Deborah Neiger. 2021. (London: AIMS, £8, paperback.) Read more…. Media Reviews – Issue 141
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Royal Birth for Platon
Russia is a long way from my cottage door. I love Russia. Her strength and wild forests. Her legends and legendary wimyn. A motherland she is called, and rightly so. Mother to so much. I remember my first journey there in 2011.
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Promoting Human Rights in Childbirth as a Solution to Obstetric Violence
In 2007 a chain of coincidences brought about a meeting with a gynecologist, who asked me if I would like to help in the labor and birth ward at one of the public hospitals of Honduras.
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Marion’s Message: The Role of the Midwife
The last decade of the WHO Sustainable Development Goals (2015–2030) has been dedicated to nurses and midwives. Cadee and Wicklund stated that, “two million midwives and 22 million nurses make up half of the world’s health workforce and are at the heart of health care everywhere” (Cadee and Wicklund 2020.).
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The Role of the Midwife in the First 1000 Days
It is the universal joy of every community midwife to run into a family months or years later and see them with the baby you so lovingly helped them bring into the world Read more…. The Role of the Midwife in the First 1000 Days
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Midwives’ Roles
I remember when I first started midwifery in 1976—after my second child and first homebirth—I realized that being a midwife included so much more than prenatal care, birth, and postpartum care. We were counselors, nutritionists, life coaches (for a year, sometimes more). We were also childbirth educators and doulas (although that was not a word we knew back then). Our roles are many, diverse, and unique, depending on the mom we are working with. Read more…. Midwives’ Roles
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The Role of Doulas
Throughout history, women have been supported during pregnancy and birth by laywomen, i.e., mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and friends. It wasn’t until birth moved from home to hospital that women were forced to birth alone, surrounded by technology and medical staff rather than loving companions.
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Wisdom of the Midwives: Autonomy
Wisdom of the Midwives, Issue 141
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Body Secrets Revealed
After more than 40 years as a massage therapist, I am still awed by the secrets and hidden truths within the human body. According to the ancient principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the body tells us everything and it’s up to us to read these clues and use this information for healing purposes. Read more…. Body Secrets Revealed
