Category Archives: Midwifery

Home Births Up 29% from 2004-2009

A new CDC report looks at the trends of home birth from 1990-2009. While home birth was relatively stable from 1990-2004, after that there was a 29% rise in the number of home births, though still a very low number.  … Continue reading

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Helping Mothers $1 at a Time

Disaster strikes. We’ve all seen it on the news. Sometimes it’s close to home, like the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and sometimes it feels more distant, as in the tsunami in Japan. Every year 13 million people will become refugees … Continue reading

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PUSH Summit Offers PUSH University

Are you working toward licensure for Certified Professional Midwives in your state? Are you planning to? Are you concerned about the future of VBAC and HBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean and home birth after cesarean)? Have you been frustrated by … Continue reading

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Your own Midwife

Honestly, I’m not really sure hot to approach this topic.. The question is do you really need us? And if so, what for exactly? We all feel that we need someone there, a second set of eyes and hands, someone … Continue reading

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Giving you my 1/2 cent.

For a over a decade now Miami-Dade County’s Jackson Memorial has been collecting a half-cent sales tax to fund need care to the community at Jackson’s various campuses. Since voters passed it in 1991, the tax, goosed by the booming economy, … Continue reading

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Modern Midwifery.

Midwives in New York need our help. Free Our Midwives is campaigning the New York State legislature to pass the Midwifery Modernization Act before the summer break. This is a piece of legislation that would free NY midwives from the … Continue reading

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Mother of Many: The Film

This was a very interesting animated film about the life of a hospital based midwife.  It’s in a film contest.  I’m interested to hear your thoughts.

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Have you hugged a midwife today?

It’s the International Day of the Midwife and I’d like to give a huge shout out to my midwife, J.   I’ve known J for a long time.  She was not my first midwife, but my longest midwife.  Her first … Continue reading

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Loyally Devoted to Doctor

I recently read the book The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N Aron, Ph.D. In the chapter called Medics, Medication, and Highly Sensitive People, the author states: “Keep in mind, too, that it is common to feel an attachment to … Continue reading

Posted in Birth Trauma, Breastfeeding, Doulas, General, Homebirth, Hospital Birth, Induction, Informed Consent, Jennifer, Labor and Birth, Midwifery, Obstetricial Interventions, Postpartum, Postpartum Depression | 15 Comments

Why Our Women are Afraid of Birth

Maybe if the television channels like Discovery health followed a dozen home births or even aired The Business of Being Born they could get a popular, and controversial other side to what they are constantly airing. Maybe it will boost their ratings even more, maybe not? But what it will do is give the other side of the whole issue. Let’s get Marsden Wagner to do a half hour special on Birth in The United States and see how many women run off to the midwives. Instead they air these disgustingly inaccurate “Freebirthing” shows. They find the one idiot who is going to make women who choose unassisted birth look like a bunch of uneducated yokels. Which is exactly what they did with their special on Unassisted birth. Continue reading

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