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The Power of Women
Read The Power of Women: Instinctual Birth Stories by Sister MorningStar and discover the power of shared birth stories and the difference they can make in our lives.
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Survivor Moms
Survivor Moms-Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse was written to help break down the isolation pregnant women and their caregivers often feel--as though they were the only ones having to cope with these challenges.
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Prolonged Labor Handbook
This book discusses the benefits of positioning, trusting birth, and the political ramifications of time assessment and responsibility. You'll learn ways to prevent prolonged labor, including herbal remedies.
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Sharing Midwifery Knowledge
Open this book to discover a helpful blend of long articles and short tricks that will help you help babies and mothers at the births you attend.
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Welcome to the Midwifery Today Community Web Site!

We hope you will find this site an exciting way to connect with others who are interested in birth. The forums are the heart of the site they are where you will meet to discuss your problems, ideas, hopes and dreams. As time goes by, you will also find a few blogs written by Midwifery Today staff members and special friends, as well as other goodies.

Our calling has always been to bring together people who are interested in birth. It happens at conferences, in the pages of Midwifery Today magazine, in E-News and on our Web site. Now it can happen, to an even greater extent, in this new birth community.

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  • Re: Midwives willing to travel

    Hello All- My name is Rose and I am a midwife working with a non-profit maternity center in the Philippines that provides care for the women here with no cost to the patient. I recently traveled to Egypt to attend a birth for a family living there. I love this thread and the idea of traveling midwifery for those in need of a gentle women centered birth...
    Posted to International Midwifery (Forum) by Rose on 05-15-2012

  • Re: The subject of licensure

    Marlene, what is TBP?,
    Posted to Legal Battles and Birth Politics (Forum) by midwifea on 05-12-2012

  • Re: tubs

    Thanks Marlene, gonna try the roll of plastic next time, (smacking forehead) why didn't I think of that before?!!!
    Posted to Waterbirth (Forum) by midwifea on 05-12-2012

  • Re: tubs

    I like the La Bassine best. I gave up fooling with liners! I now just tel my couples to buy a 25 ft roll of plastic. That is enough to put under the tub to protect the floor, line the tub & still have enough left to cover the tub, all for a fraction of the cost of the liners, which never fit right or lie flat anyway. I agree that if they want to...
    Posted to Waterbirth (Forum) by marlenecpm on 05-11-2012

  • The subject of licensure

    Grrr! I get so upset when TBP people spread the rumors that unlicensed midwifery is illegal in our state! Scares many out of seeking a homebirth. ANd others it misleads into only seeking CNM's, thinking they are the only legal or qualified midwives, and of course very few CNM's can find a collaborative doc to back their practice, so they get...
    Posted to Legal Battles and Birth Politics (Forum) by marlenecpm on 05-11-2012

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