Tag 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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There is No M in Maternal Child Health

Today there is a new blog out there entitled, “The M in MCH.“  It’s written by an amazing woman named Michelle Breen.  I first met Michelle in the early 90s.  She hired me as an intern health educator in reproductive … 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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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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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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International Day of the Midwife

May 5th is the?International?Day of the Midwife. ?I’d like to say something personal about midwifery and what it has meant to me. ?I don’t think that there are enough words to convey my?gratitude?to the midwives that have helped me birth … Continue reading

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Who’s Catching Your Baby?

A student doctor recently blogged about home birth. The post was full of the common misconceptions about home birth and she asked for clarification from anyone who had ever attended a home birth. She got some thoughtful comments, including a … Continue reading

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