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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 believe in. Plus, I work with a great bunch of people! What I plan to do in this ...

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 Tritten I got to catch another baby. The midwife wasn't feeling real well, and the baby ...

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 many, many birth stories have come across my desk. There have been stories of ...

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 of a person’s life. In that the experience of giving birth has such great potential ...

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, because the effects of the birth year—positive or negative—will affect ...