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Holiday Gift Money to Spend?

SPECIAL  2011.12.5
Check out the Online Holiday Coupon Page to find out how you can save $10 or $20 on your Midwifery Today order. Or, save $5 on a Midwifery Today subscription. Be sure to take advantage of these special offers during the Holiday shopping season. You’ll also find special offers from other merchants. LEARN MORE…

Amazing Birth Stories

REVIEW  2011.12.20
Review by Jill Cohen. “Diane is quite the woman, with incredible wisdom and experience with pregnancy and birth. In the 1990s Diane worked as a labor and delivery RN in two different hospitals while also maintaining a private midwifery practice. She now attends homebirths and also attends births at her birthing center, Gentle Birth Services.” READ MORE…

Birthwork: A compassionate guide to being with birth

REVIEW  2012.1.4
Review by Jill Cohen. “The book has four parts. Part 1 concerns preparation. The author explores how we communicate, the art of language, the middle way of care that helps prevent burnout, and relationship factors such as dynamics within teamwork, conflict and weaving in and out of birthing families’ lives.” READ MORE…

Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood

REVIEW  2012.1.23  NEW!
Review by Ramona Denk. “What do you get when you cross a poet, a scientist and a mother? You get the author of this outstanding book! I have to be honest. If you told me that there was a book about how the environment affects pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, I wouldn’t necessarily run out and get it. But I happened across this one on the library shelf and opened it in the middle. …” READ MORE…

Lessons from Kitty Birth: Using Placenta to Control Hemorrhage

ARTICLE  2011.12.8
“I went to a totally beautiful and undisturbed birth today. Five of them, actually! The mother had the most natural births as we looked on, not disturbing her but just being “with woman.” With woman—with kitty.” Read this editorial by Jan Tritten from Midwifery Today Issue 100. READ MORE…

Mending Invisible Wings: Healing From the Loss of Your Baby

REVIEW  2011.12.5
Review by Jan Tritten. “The journal moves parents along through the healing process with poems, tender words and places for the reader to write her own affirmations and to tell her story. This is an interactive journal and remembrance of the baby with many places to tell the baby’s story. This book adds just what is needed to the healing realm of birth loss. Our resources in this area are so much richer because Mary Burgess took the time help us through this difficult area of life and death.” READ MORE…

Williams Gynecology

REVIEW  2011.12.5
Review by Marion Toepke McLean. “Following a long line of editions of the classic text Williams Obstetrics, this inaugural edition of Williams Gynecology is a useful reference book. The book is comprehensive and, while thoroughly based in contemporary, academic gynecological theory, the authors attempt to create a baseline of normalcy in their approach to women’s health care” READ MORE…

Global Midwifery Council

ARTICLE  2011.9.14
“The birth of the Global Midwifery Council was in June of 2010 at the Home Child/Midwifery Today Conference in Moscow, Russia. It was born to change the paradigm of birth around the world. At international conferences, Midwifery Today has learned enough about midwifery and birth around the world to realize that birth itself is in deep trouble. The Global Midwifery Council (GMC) is an organization born to help make long-term changes in how mothers and babies are treated and how midwifery is carried out. We have a mission to stop inappropriate over-medicalization in birth care!” Read this editorial by Jan Tritten from Midwifery Today Autumn 2011. READ MORE…

Safer Birth in a Barn?

ARTICLE  2011.6.13
"She’s been in this box stall (when not out to pasture) for weeks, because she must be in a familiar environment to birth smoothly. There is her usual water and hay in the stall—never restrict their food in labor!" READ MORE…

Know someone who wants to be a midwife?

FEATURED PRODUCT  2012.1.17
Give her the Beginning Midwives’ Package! Designed especially for aspiring midwives, this package includes a one-year subscription to Midwifery Today magazine, the book Paths to Becoming a Midwife and the new audio-CD set Beginning Midwifery. All at a discount off the individual prices, and shipping is included in the package price. VIEW PRODUCT…

Learn about midwifery education!

MIDWIFERY EDUCATION  2012.1.4
Are you an aspiring midwife who’s looking for the right school? Are you a practicing midwife who would like to learn more? Visit our Education Opportunities page to discover ways to start or continue your education. LEARN MORE…

Trick of the Trade

WEEKLY FEATURE  2012.1.29  NEW!

Vulvar Swelling:

The key to reducing vulvar swelling during pregnancy is to get circulation going. Pelvic rock and rolls can shift the baby if it is blocking blood flow. Women should try sitz baths with yarrow, witch hazel bark and sea salt. They can also do alternating sitz baths-switching from very hot to very cold and back. Use two five-gallon buckets or other large containers that can accommodate the bottom in the tub, filling one with hot and the other with cold.

Quotable Quote

WEEKLY FEATURE  2012.1.29  NEW!
Be bold. Be proud. Persist in spreading the word that midwives are not only experts in normal birth, but also expert at keeping birth normal.
— Judy Edmunds, CPM, MT Back Issues
 
 
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