Theme: Birth without Borders
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Argentinian Marina Lembo, enthusiastically promotes midwifery and recounts the development of a community of midwives who have put together a birthing center where they can treat birth as a natural event.
Traditonal Midwife Anita Rojas with Doña Irene at the Midwifery Today 2005 Eugene conference
A Mexican midwife recounts the story of her calling to midwifery and shares her philosophy.
Dona Irene Sotelo Alvarez, Parteria Tradicional Mejicana. From OB STARE magazine. Read more…. Parteria Tradicional Mejicana: Doña Irene Sotelo Alvarez
De todas maneras nosotras atendemos el parto con nuestro conocimiento, nuestras hierbas, nuestras sobadas y nuestros rezos porque la partera significa vida, luz, amor, trabajo, mujer, responsabilidad, confianza, calidad, economía, esmero, cariño, amabilidad, satisfacción. Esto es lo que nos hace indispensables y diferentes. Y por esto, aunque haya centro de salud en nuestra comunidad las señoras van a atenderse con nosotras. Read more…. Luna Llena: Centro de iniciación a la partería en Oaxaca
We Americans are consumed with the need to believe that we are number one. But here’s a wrenching fact: 41 countries have better infant mortality rates than the US. Read more…. Midwifery and International Maternity Care
Arriba la Revolución Read more…. Arriba la Revolución
I am MorningStar and I believe in the stories and prayers of the people to preserve simple birth. As a Native American and a retired midwife with thirty years of experience…I feel confident, excited and encouraged that we will face the challenge before us and simplify birth. Read more…. Preserving Simple Birth
Egyptian Pharmacopia in Luxor
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Throughout history, women from around the world have discovered remedies made from herbs and foods for specific breastfeeding conditions. The authors share some of those.
Read more…. A Selection of International Nutritional & Herbal Remedies for Breastfeeding Concerns
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This interesting article documents the development of a birth center in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, which parallels the development of the birth professionals in their approach to and successes in natural birth.
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Judy Hagan comments on the increasing medicalization of birth, including the role of some midwives in perpetuating it. She goes on to discuss how she, as a midwife, has handled her business, and the need to advocate for home births.
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We have now come full circle on the usefulness of episiotomies: they are harmful. Katherine Jensen describes in this article how she arrived at that conclusion through intuition and experience.
We are in a profession that can give the greatest joy humankind has known—birth. In Spanish, birth is termed a more poetic "dar a luz," bring to the light. We, as midwives, need to bring to the light the truth about what childbirth can be. Read more…. Bringing Good Birth to the Light
