Midwifery Today Issue 142

Too Little Too Late or Too Much Too Soon? How About Just Right?

by Marion Toepke McLean June 11, 2022

Maternal mortality prevention has been a world health goal ever since the conception of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in 1985. Maternal death occurs in pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum time.

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Wisdom of the Midwives: Medical Care for Birth

by Editorial June 8, 2022

Wisdom of the Midwives: What are the advantages of medical care for birth? – Issue 142

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Media Review

by Dianne Garland June 8, 2022

Media Review – Issue 142 – Powerful Postpartum Read more…. Media Review

“Portland Birth Photographer, Natalie Broders” (www.nataliebroders.com)

Photo Album – Issue 142

by Editorial June 8, 2022

Photo Album – Issue 142

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Tricks of the Trade – Issue 142

by Editorial June 8, 2022

Tricks of the Trade – Issue 142 – Asynclitic Presentation, Prolonged Labor, Using the Placenta for Hemorrhage, Helpful Herbal Recipes

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Midwifery and Childbirth News – Issue 142

by Editorial June 8, 2022

Midwifery and Childbirth News – Issue 142

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From the Editor: Gratitude for Midwifery Today

by Jan Tritten June 4, 2022

The face of Midwifery Today is changing. I am retiring. Midwifery Today (MT) needs to live on, so I have found the ideal midwife-visionary to carry her into the next years: Lois Wilson. You can read a bit of her story here. Read more…. From the Editor: Gratitude for Midwifery Today

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Midwifery—An Existential Crisis

by Beverley Lawrence Beech June 4, 2022

In the UK, in 1960, the Peel Report suggested a goal of 100% hospital deliveries, without any evidence whatsoever that this would improve outcomes.

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Become an Implementing Partner of the International Childbirth Initiative: A Model for Safety and Respect in Childbirth that Works in Every Setting, Everywhere in the World

by Vicki Penwell and Robbie Davis-Floyd May 27, 2022

Globally, there is the problem of the over-medicalization of childbirth, but there is also the problem of the under-utilization of lifesaving care, and marginalized people often suffer needlessly from lack, rather than overuse, of health care during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. This quote from Miller et al. Read more…. Become an Implementing Partner of the International Childbirth Initiative: A Model for Safety and Respect in Childbirth that Works in Every Setting, Everywhere in the World

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The Empty Breast Syndrome

by Marlene Waechter May 20, 2022

I had been warned of the “empty nest syndrome” that happens when a couple’s youngest child is old enough to leave the nest. No one ever warned me that at least 15 years before that, I would be devastated by the “empty breast syndrome.”

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The Medicalization of Midwifery and Birth

by Mary L. Cooper May 13, 2022

The term “medicalization” refers to the process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issues. Medicalized birth came about in the early 1900s with advances in pain relief, antiseptic and aseptic surgical practices, and surgical techniques and outcomes, alongside a rapid rise in people’s faith in scientific medicine. Read more…. The Medicalization of Midwifery and Birth

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Are Midwifery Today Readers Marine Chimps or Aquatic Apes?

by Michel Odent April 28, 2022

Midwifery today readers must realize that we are at the dawn of a radically new understanding of human evolution and human nature. The main reason is that we are now in a position to consider the evolution of Homo and the evolution of our planet—particularly the enormous fluctuations of sea levels—as two inseparable topics. Furthermore, we are currently giving increased importance to fast-developing disciplines such as genetics and virology. My objective is to popularize the “marine chimpanzee concept” and to classify “the aquatic ape theory” in the framework of the history of sciences.