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Hello and welcome to Midwifery Today's newest blog. My name is Donna Dolezal Zelzer and I've been the Marketing Director at Midwifery Today since 1993. I love my job - marketing is fun and it's great to be able to promote something I really...
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Marion Toepke McLean , who has written Marion’s Message from Issue #1 in Midwifery Today is serving in Uganda for 2 months. She has retired from her job at Planned Parenthood but not from Midwifery Today! She is my mentor and my friend. Love, Jan...
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I have thought a lot about “Birth is a Human Rights Issue,” possibly because of hearing so many brutal birth stories. We have been publishing Midwifery Today for 24 years, since 1986. In those years of publishing birth and midwifery information...
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Midwives are called upon to help each of their clients have the best birth possible. As many as one in three or four women have suffered sexual abuse or rape. The effects of such abuse often play out in the childbearing year, as well as in other aspects...
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This is what I want to say to every young woman in the world: your birth is the most important event in shaping your life as a mother. It is imperative that you be properly cared for, nurtured and, in this culture, educated. You need a loving midwife...
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A mother’s birth is first a physical event, but if the psychological aspect takes over it may be impossible for the birth to proceed as a straight-out physical event. In this case, the mind needs to be cleared in order to fall into the primal brain...
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In our birth practice, we always had so much trouble saying goodbye to the mothers we served. You know how accustomed you get to seeing them weekly, by the end of the pregnancy? Prenatal visits often happened with a lot of laughing and information flying...
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Midwifery is the answer to the question, “how can we afford national health care?” If every motherbaby were attended by a non-interventive but knowledgeable midwife, a national health care program would save billions of dollars on the four...
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I was horrified when I read the American College of Nurse-Midwives’ (ACNM) declaration of opposition to federal recognition for the CPM, or Certified Professional Midwife. One of my most recent blogs was on unity within the midwifery profession...
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Guest Post by Lynn Baptisti Richards (Lynn Baptisti Richards, BS, Ed, LM, is a performing and visual artist, a midwife and a writer.) I thought I was the only one (or nearly the only one) who feels that midwives have been sold a load of crap. The desperate...
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My role in midwifery, besides being a midwife and journalist, is to support and encourage all midwives. I do support “The Big Push for Midwives.” I really want to see CPMs (Certified Professional Midwife) be part of the healthcare system,...
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These were originally posted on our Twitter page. Number 1 is by Gloria Lemay; 2-10 are by Jan Tritten. A good midwife is worth her weight in gold if you want a good birth experience. Shop carefully and pay her well. Thou shalt eat a healthy diet: 80...
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When I first started doing homebirths 32+ years ago the mortal sin was to use buccal Pitocin (the pill form, which is put under the tongue to begin or augment labor.) The reason that it was a no-no is that it might cause tetanic contractions, which can...
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The News & Observer of North Carolina ran an article on May 27 entitled “Police probe home birth; baby died.” When I went to the site to read the article, I learned that “A woman who delivered a baby into the toilet and told emergency...