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	Patricia Edmonds Patricia Edmonds received her initial training from Northwestern School of Practical Midwifery in Portland, Oregon, in 1977. She is one of the founding mothers of the Oregon Midwifery Council and has been the editor of Birthing for 15 years. Her two children were both born at home. Though Patricia attempted retirement, she now continues, with passion, to do birthwork as a midwife. > Publications Patricia has authored three publications: The Placenta: A Guide to Examination Into My Hands: A Birth Record Book for Midwives The Birth Guardian: A Record Book for Doulas
	Judy Edmunds Judy Edmunds, CPM, RNC, LM, CH, is a certified professional midwife licensed in the state of Oregon. She has been practicing independently since 1980. Judy is also a registered nutritional consultant and chartered herbalist. As an HIV/AIDS consultant, certified HIV testing counselor and partner notification specialist, she keeps busy researching, developing and teaching disease prevention programs. She also enjoys teaching emergency response techniques such as CPR, Neonatal Resuscitation, First Aid and Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics. She has been certified as an instructor for the American Red Cross, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Heart Association. Judy writes in her "spare" time. > Articles Gracious Births Home—Our Birth Right Bridging the Gap: Cracks and Chasms
	Valerie El Halta Valerie El Halta, midwife, is retiring after 28 years and close to 3,000 babies. She offers gratitude and appreciation to all who have supported her through these years as friends, clients, teachers and students. > Articles Not Among Strangers Normal Birth: Do We Believe? Can We Remember? Hummous and Enchiladas Make Beautiful Babies, Too! Posterior Labor: A Pain in the Back
	Cornelia Enning Cornelia Enning has been a licensed midwife in Germany since 1972 and has attended homebirths and waterbirths since 1975. She is the founder of the German parents association "Wasserbabies" and editor of the quarterly Wasserbaby-Post. Cornelia is the author of Placenta: The Gift of Life (Motherbaby Press), as well as several books on waterbirth. She directs the German Federation of Aquapaedagogik, instructs parents in water training for newborns and has taught waterbirth midwifery to more than 4000 midwives and obstetricians. Cornelia has two adult children and one granddaughter. > Publications Placenta: The Gift of Life / Information on the role of the placenta in different cultures, and how to prepare and use it as medicine: This book contains comprehensive and up-to-date information on how the placenta has been used in the past, medical uses throughout the world, and how individuals can make use of the placenta in a variety of ways. This may involve burial under a certain kind of tree, drying for use as a lucky charm, or even ingestion as a medicine. > Contact Visit Cornelia’s website at www.hebinfo.de/
	Jane Evans Jane Evans qualified as a midwife in 1976 and after spending some time in the Consultant Unit, was a community midwife for thirteen years. She began her independent practice in 1991, and continues to extend her experience with VBAC, twins, breech, home and waterbirth.
	Sharon Evans Sharon Evans is a Certified Professional Midwife, midwifery educator and teacher of the natural healing arts. > More Info Sharon K. Evans, as Administrative Director of Via Vita Midwifery Foundation, brings over 30 years of experience in midwifery and the Natural Healing Arts, with over a decade focused on training midwives, including regulatory and administrative functions. She served on the Board of Directors of the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) from 1999 to 2004. She was first hired to manage the Applications Department for NARM in 1997 and was later appointed Director of Applications for NARM in 1999. Sharon served on the State of Alaska Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives from 2001 to 2005, was Chair of the NARM Qualified Evaluator Committee from 1995 to 1997, and served as President of Midwives Association of Alaska, 1992–1993. She was owner of the Valley Natural Health Center School of Massage Therapy in Alaska from 1985 to 1988, as well as owner of the Peninsula Nutrition Center in Kenai, Alaska, from 1991 to 1994. In addition to her midwifery skills, Sharon has worked in private practice as a massage therapist and as a teacher of various massage and natural healing techniques including colonic hydrotherapy since 1980. She is an authorized teacher of Creative Healing (a powerful healing massage technique) as well as a Reiki Master/Teacher. She completed the Center for American Birth Centers’ (CABC) accreditation process for the Mat-Su Midwifery Birth Center (MSM) in Wasilla, Alaska, and recently retired from her position there as Quality Assurance Analyst in administration, after having practiced midwifery for years at MSM (as a founding midwife). Sharon is now retired from clinical practice but benefits Via Vita with her years of experience delivering babies outside of the hospital, being a preceptor, and mentoring midwives. Her passion continues to be the preservation of the apprenticeship model of midwifery education. As a preceptor, she instilled in her students a deep belief and trust in the birth process, as well as respect and love for the women and families served, honoring them, recognizing that they are truly the midwifery “teachers.” She currently resides in Alaska with her husband of over 40 years and is the mother of seven grown children and twenty-one grandchildren, many of whom were born into her hands. Sharon has recently joined forces with the Global Midwifery Council (GMC). Sharon tells us, “I believe GMC is about to make a difference, and together we can create a better world with a kinder, more gentle beginning for mother/baby every day and in every part of the planet. Our children and grandchildren worldwide deserve that, don’t you think?” > Publication Sharon is co-owner of (Morningstar Publishing Company), and is the co-author of the textbook Practical Skills Guide for Midwifery (2004) and now in the 5th edition, 2012, Starting an I.V. and Other Invasive Skills for the Birth Setting (2007), and the training DVD Basic Training for I.V. Therapy & Hypovolemic Shock Treatment (2007).
	Anne Frye Anne Frye resides in Portland, Oregon, where she devotes her full-time attention to writing and publishing textbooks for the midwifery community, among them Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year, now in its 6th edition, Healing Passage, A Midwife’s Guide to the Care and Repair of the Tissues Involved in Birth, in its 5th edition, Quick Reference Cards for Newborns with Problems, the Suturing Techniques for Midwives video, Holistic Midwifery, A Comprehensive Textbook for Midwives in Homebirth Practice, Vol. I: Care during Pregnancy and Holistic Midwifery, A Comprehensive Textbook for Midwives in Homebirth Practice, Vol. II: Care of the Mother and Baby from the Onset of Labor through the First Hours after Birth. She holds an independent study BA degree in Holistic Midwifery and has been a midwife since 1981. [ PHOTO BY RICARDO HERBERT JONES ]
	Jennifer Gallardo Jennifer Gallardo, CPM, LDM, is a midwife and the founder and director of the Andaluz Waterbirth Center in Portland, Oregon. She founded the original Andaluz Waterbirth Center in Guatemala in 1995. She was inspired to promote waterbirth as a result of her own experience with hospital birth. "I was elated about having a child," she writes. "But I was very disappointed in my birth experience… I ended up with a Pitocin-induced birth, flat on my back, drugged out." Jennifer trained as a midwife in Guatemala City, as well as through the Seattle Midwifery School Challenge and the North American Registry of Midwives exam. She currently lives in Oregon with her husband, Fernando, and their five children.
	Ina May Gaskin Ina May Gaskin, CPM, is the founder and director of The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee (USA). She is the author of Spiritual Midwifery (1975) and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth (2003). Ina May’s new book (2011) is called Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta. She was president of Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) from 1996 to 2002, and is a prominent national and international speaker. She has been a homebirth midwife since 1971. [ PHOTO BY ANDREA NOLL ] > Articles Three Surprise Breeches Teaching Respect for Hands-On Care Unity: An Elusive but Necessary Goal for US Midwives and Their Advocates A Vision for Midwifery in the United States
	Stephen Gaskin Stephen Gaskin led a discussion at Monday Night Class from 1966 until 1970, beginning on the campus of San Francisco State College and ending at San Francisco’s famous rock hall, The Family Dog. He also led a caravan of 50 school buses around the USA for a 42-city lecture tour, culminating in the founding of The Farm intentional community near Summertown, Tennessee. He is also the founder of The Farm’s overseas relief and development organization, Plenty, for which he received the First Right Livelihood Award, called in Europe the Alternative Nobel Prize. He is the author of a dozen books, and is currently working on his autobiography. He is the husband of midwife Ina May Gaskin. > More Info Stephen’s website is: www.stephengaskin.com
	Carol Gautschi Carol Gautschi, CPM, LM, has attended homebirths since 1978 and has worked as a Traditional Holistic Midwife on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula since 1979. For her first 25 years Carol served as an unlicensed midwife. Her teaching style is unique because in addition to teaching the nuts and bolts of her subject, she emphasizes the unseen (or intuitive) realm of birth. She fosters the importance of the midwife relationship not just with the mom but the baby. Carol believes that the unseen world is more real than the seen, especially with regard to birth. Carol trained in California with, among others, Dr. Nial Ettenhausen in the 1970s and early 1980s. She is co-founder of the Washington Alliance of Responsible Midwifery (WARM), and chairs Olympic Peninsula Birth Matters. > More Info Carol is co-founder of the Washington Alliance of Rural Midwives (WARM), and chairs Olympic Peninsula Birth Matters. She has seven children, ten grandchildren and has been married to Paul since 1974. Her website is: http://gentlebirths.net
	Lisa Goldstein Lisa Goldstein, BFA, LM, RN, CNM, has been attending homebirths since 1958. Her three sons were born at home. She has lived in the western North Carolina mountains for since the early 1970s and in 1983 became North Carolina’s only legal non-nurse midwife. In the 1990s, she became an RN and then completed the CNEP program for nurse-midwifery, becoming a CNM in 1998. She currently works at Bakersville Community Medical Clinic, as well as her own office, The Fern Kingham Memorial Women’s Health Center and Birth Apartment. She attends births at home, the birth apartment and Spruce Pine Community Hospital. Lisa has also incorporated her knowledge of herbal and homeopathic remedies into her midwifery practice. > Contact 239 Gravy Hill Burnsville, North Carolina 28714-7471 Phone: (828) 675-5316 Cell: (828) 208-BABY
	Mikhail Golovach Mikhail Golovach, neurologist, is one of the founders of the interregional public organization “MAMA,” and a member of an organization working to preserve the rights of “invalids with consequences of cerebral spastic infantile paralysis.” He is the author of hundreds of articles on the modern high-tech approach to childbirth and obstetrical aggression, and the violation this is of the physiology of birth. He is a supporter of natural birth.
	Diane Goslin Diane Goslin, CPM, has been practicing since 1978. To date she has been the midwife for the births of over 6000 babies. She is the mother of five and grandmother of 12. She has primarily served in rural communities with a large portion of her practice among the Amish. In her diverse experience she has attended VBACs, twins and breech babies and also seen many anomalies and complications. Diane has trained over 40 student midwives. She resides in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she currently practices.
	Carol Gray Carol Gray, Midwife, LMT, practices and teaches Perinatal Craniosacral Therapy in Portland, Oregon. Carol is especially passionate about getting CST skills into the hands of midwives and others who attend births and those who treat moms and babies. Carol has been a therapeutic bodyworker since 1990. She has attended births for more than 30 years—at first as a doula and since 2000 as a homebirth midwife. Carol is a pioneer, integrating CST into prenatal/postpartum care and the birthplace.
	Tine Greve Tine Greve received her midwifery education in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1991 and has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) since 2000. She has been working in an alternative birth-care (ABC) unit in Oslo, Norway, since 1997. Tine also started the first breastfeeding counseling clinic in Norway in 2000. She has recently been working part-time at the National Breastfeeding Center in Oslo. > More Information Tine married a Norwegian and moved to Norway in 1993. Her children were all born in ABC units; the two youngest are waterbabies.
	Alexandra Gurevich Alexandra Gurevich, midwife, healer and water trainer, is a founder of the Healthy Family club, mother to three children and grandmother to six grandchildren. In the mid-1970s, along with her husband, Aaron, Alexandra began the study of natural healing methods and the "test for yourself" method of education—promoting a more harmonious development of children and adults. After becoming acquainted with Igor Charkovsky, Alexandra began to support births. > More Information In 1983, Alexandra and her husband founded the club "Healthy Family." In 1990 she emigrated to Israel, where she organizes homebirth and baby yoga classes and supports waterbirth in the sea.
	Judith Elaine Halek Judith Elaine Halek is the founder and director of Birth Balance, an East Coast resource center for underwater birth, started in 1987. One of the original labor support doulas in New York City, she has pioneered alternative choices in childbirth throughout the tri-state area. Judith is a birth photographer, consultant and counselor, massage and fitness therapist, writer, educator, speaker and producer of 39 documentaries on "alternatives in childbirth." Judith lives in NYC, where she has been since 1982, with her deaf 19-year-old cat, Venus. Her passions are photography and writing. > Contact Judith can be contacted directly at: Judith@BirthBalance.com. Website: BirthBalance.com. Contact number: 212-222-4349 (phone/fax). Mailing address: Judith Halek, Birth Balance, 309 W. 109th St., Suite 6D, NYC, NY 10025. > Articles Tool Bag
	Salem Hamilton Salem Hamilton is a midwife with strong connections in Costa Rica now living in Philadelphia. She has some creative plans for the conference in Costa Rica in 2007. She will have each participant contribute to the making of a batik that will be done at the conference. She also has an organization called Birth without Borders.
	Merrie Handfinger Dr. R. Merrie Handfinger graduated from the Swedish Institute for Massage in 1976 adding Shiatsu, Polarity and Reiki training. She has continued her education and is now a Chiropractor, graduating FROM THE Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1985, practicing a blend of Sacro Occipital and Diversified techniques in New York City.
	Mette Ness Hansen Mette Ness Hansen, a midwife and an acupuncturist, works at an Oslo, Norway, breastfeeding centre with the Baby-friendly Initiative, in addition to providing prenatal care.
	Toril Hanson Toril Hanson works as a teacher at the midwifery school in Tromsoe, Norway. She is the contact for the Saami Midwives. She also produced the film Giving Birth in Northern Landscape.
	Penni Harmon Penni Harmon, CNM, graduated from Yale Nurse-Midwifery Program in 1980. She previously had a home birth practice in Eugene, Oregon, and a practice in Long Island, New York. She now works and teaches at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.
	Barbara Harper Barbara Harper, RN, founder and director of Waterbirth International Resource and Referral Service, has been researching and documenting waterbirth and gentle birth since 1983. Midwives and parents alike have called her videos "the most inspiring birth videos ever produced." Her newest book, Waterbirth: Embracing the Miracle, will be available in 2005. An internationally recognized expert, she lectures and consults with hospitals and universities throughout the world. The Oregonian newspaper referred to her as "the Billy Graham of waterbirth." > More As midwife and childbirth educator, Barbara has dedicated her life to helping heal the way we welcome babies into the world. In 2002 she was honored with the International Award from Lamaze International for her dedication to educating providers and couples throughout the world. Barbara is the mother of three; her two youngest were born at home in water in 1984 and 1986. She makes her home in Wilsonville, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where she is active in her church and community, serving on several boards and education committees. She also loves reading to her grandson. > Publications Barbara is the author of Gentle Birth Choices, with a new edition coming out in 2004, and the producer of Gentle Birth Choices video. In 2000 she produced the video Birth Into Being: The Russian Waterbirth Experience after many trips to Russia over 15 years. > Contact Visit Barbara’s website at www.waterbirth.org.
	Gail Hart Gail Hart graduated from a midwifery training program as a Certified Practical Midwife in 1977. She has held a variety of certifications over the years; she was a Certified Midwife through the Oregon Midwifery Council, and an LDEM in the state of Oregon. She is now "semi-retired," and no longer maintains her license, but still keeps active with a small community practice. Gail is strongly interested in ways to holistically incorporate evidence-based medical knowledge with traditional midwifery understanding.
	Harriette Hartigan Harriette Hartigan is a photographic artist, writer, producer and midwife. She is a frequent speaker at Midwifery Today conferences where her visual shows and lectures are must-attends. Since 1975 Harriette has been bringing to sight the exquisite experience of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, guided by the awe and reverence one feels in the presence of the sacred. > Publications Brought to Earth by Birth: Witness again the magnificent nature and beauty of pregnancy and birth. Harriette Hartigan, midwife, writer and birth photographer since 1975, masterfully weaves words and images together in this eloquent black and white photo essay. Feel the power and grace of women giving birth and babies being born, the emotions of fathers deeply caring, and the joy of new life. > Contact You may contact Harriette at www.harriettehartigan.com 734-677-0519
	Jane Hassinger Jane Hassinger is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Women’s Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Practice at the University of Michigan.
	Hermine Hayes-Klein Hermine Hayes-Klein is an American lawyer and the director of the Bynkershoek Research Center for Reproductive Rights in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2012 she organized the �Human Rights in Childbirth� conference in The Hague. Hermine now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two young sons, who were born at home in Holland. Her work now focuses on legal issues surrounding childbirth, including the defense of midwives.
	Leah Hazard Leah Hazard is a doula, mother of two and author of The Father’s Home Birth Handbook. For more information, please visit www.homebirthbook.com.
	Els Hendrix Els Hendrix was born at home in Belgium in 1977. She completed her midwifery education in Hasselt, Belgium, in 2001. She worked in a homebirth practice in the Netherlands for a year and a half. Since 2003 she has worked as a teacher in the midwifery college in Hasselt, Belgium, where she plays a leading role in implementing problem-based learning. Her focus is on scientific research, evidence-based practice, midwifery models, primary health care and home birth practices. In 2006 Els obtained her Master’s degree in Health Promotion from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
	Leena Henionen Leena Henionen is a Finnish midwife who teaches at the midwifery school in Oslo. She played a central role in collection and presentation of evidence for waterbirth that led to performing waterbirths at the hospital from 1995. She also worked hard on the ABC concept from 1989-–1995.
	Renata Hillman Renata Hillman is a Traditional Midwife, serving Mothers along the gulf coast, as midwife and educator. She is mother to three and midwife to her first granddaughter. She is the Chairman of the Board for Midwives Alliance of Mississippi (MAM). She dreams of the day when midwifery is once again a respected calling in American society and mothers have many from which to choose.
	Pamela Hines (Powell) Pamela Hines (Powell), CPM, is ending her 11-year midwifery practice this year. She is looking forward to teaching and writing about unhindered birth and midwifery issues while going back to school to work towards a Master’s in Public Health. She lives in Salem, Oregon.
	Jerri Hobdy Jerri Hobdy, CNM, has been involved in midwifery education and practice since graduating from Columbia University in 1978. She has worked in hospital, clinic, community and private practices in New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. She has also been a Registered Midwife in Cambridge, England. Jerri has worked to improve the midwifery education options and alternatives in both traditional and distance learning programs at Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Frontier School of Nursing/Community-Based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program and the Institute of Midwifery, Women, and Health. > More She is now program director of the two midwifery programs at Philadelphia University: the Certificate Nurse-Midwifery Program at the Midwifery Institute and the Master of Science Program in Midwifery. Her passion for the profession of midwifery is focused on improving midwifery education through excellent curriculum, mentoring and high touch/low technology in the curriculum distribution for distance learning. Jerri is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (FACNM) and is close to completing her Doctorate in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University (EdD(c)).
	Peggy Holtzman Peggy Holtzman is a psychotherapist with Family Therapy Associates in Ann Arbor. She is certified as an EMDR therapist and incorporates EMDR in her work assisting people in healing from physical, emotional and/or sexual trauma.
	Diane Holzer Diane Holzer, CPM, is a homebirth midwife of over 20 years and also practices as physician’s assistant in a rural healthcare clinic. She has been actively involved with Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) for over 16 years and has been on the faculty at Maternidad La Luz, a midwifery training program, for over 10 years. She has been the regional representative for the Americas and is the current president of MANA.
	Mary Hostetler Mary Hostetler, a Mennonite midwife, serves the plain community in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, and is a midwife you can cuddle up to. She has a great capacity to love! She attended her first birth in 1956 and "got amniotic fluid in her shoes" (she says we all do)...and the rest is herstory!
	Jenna Houston Jenna Houston, MS, CNM, has been a practicing midwife since 1971 when called to attend births in Woodstock NY area and working in alternative lifestyle communities. She is a self-taught herbalist in the wise-woman tradition and a childbirth activist since the early childbirth reform movement. She attended homebirths for 14 years before attending a formal midwifery school and becoming a CNM, marrying her (Ob/Gyn) husband, and starting a mom and pop home-based women’s health practice in upstate New York. For 15 years they practiced together attending births in home, hospital and free-standing birth center settings. Jenna has also worked internationally in Jamaica, India and Guatemala and started a birth and women’s health center in Guatemala where she was founder and director of Midwives for Midwives and Women’s Health International. > Contact Jenna Houston is Executive Director of MFM: www.MidwivesforMidwives.org
	Annette Huitfeldt Annette Huitfeldt has been a midwife in Norway for nearly 20 years. She has a homebirth practice, in addition to working at the National Breastfeeding Centre in Oslo on the Baby-friendly Initiative. She is planning a new birthing centre in Oslo. In addition to working in prenatal care for many years, Annette also worked on the WHO growth reference study from 1999–2002.
	Lieve Huybrechts Lieve Huybrechts has been a midwife since 1980. After working in a hospital delivery ward for almost 20 years, she became disenchanted with the medicalisation of birth and became an independent midwife in 1999. She now assists with approximately 60 homebirths a year, teaches prenatal classes, and provides postpartum care and breastfeeding counseling. She is actively involved with the independent midwives of Belgium and works to facilitate natural birth and breastfeeding, among other activities.
	Ekaterina Ivanova Ekaterina Ivanova, a midwife and mother of eight children, is an expert on the ancient practices of the Karelian midwives of northern Europe. After 20 years of practice, Ekaterina has assisted more than 1000 births in hospitals, as well as outside the medical establishment. She believes motherhood is the greatest happiness given to a woman.
	Marilyn Jeffs Marilyn Jeffs is a pediatric nurse and parent/child educator who teaches group and individual parenting classes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	Linda B. Jenkins Linda B. Jenkins, RN, has taught in a variety of capacities—from ghetto schools to the Spanish-speaking community to doctors. She has researched and filmed births in the US, South and Central America, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Borneo. To learn more about Linda visit www.birthprep.com or e-mail her directly at jenxl@aol.com. > Publications Author of Pregnancy, Birth & You, she has also been intimately involved in the translation of this book into Spanish. El Embarazo, El Parto Y Tu is now available and has been well received. Linda has produced four videotapes in Spanish for the pregnant Spanish speaking population. Practicando Para Dar A Luz, Durante El Parto, Dar A Luz Con Amor and Sí! Se Puede and are now available. Sí! Se Puede is available with English or Chinese narration as Yes! You Can.
	Jennie Joseph Jennie Joseph is a licensed midwife and owner of The Birth Place Birthing Center in Orlando, Florida. She was born, raised and educated in England and moved to Florida in 1989. She started her midwifery career in London in 1979 and has since been active in the childbearing arena. Jennie is the Chair of the State of Florida Council of Licensed Midwifery, former Director of The School of Complementary Medicine-Midwifery Program and Clinical Director of The Birth Place.
	Lene Karlsrud Lene Karlsrud works as a midwife at Fredrikstad hospital, which has three delivery units: high risk, low risk and birthing centre. She works at the birthing centre.
	Agnès Keller Agnès Keller was born in 1961. She is a music teacher and mother of four children, and has been at the head of an association which helps parents and future parents since 1991. She has been a doula since 2002, and has developed the use of sound during pregnancy and labor. She sings with women during their pregnancy, and after the birth she sings with the whole family. She demonstrates that sound is powerful—that the fetus not only can hear but also can feel sounds, and that sound can help both mother and child during labor. Sound is not only "material" in nature—it is also (and maybe first) energy and spirituality.
	Phyllis Klaus Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist and social worker. She teaches and practices at the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Santa Rosa, California, and also practices in Berkeley, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and counseling to individuals, couples, families, children and groups. She has worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period for the past 30 years, and has been involved in research and training of maternity caregivers. She is also a founder of DONA International. > More Much of her clinical management in the perinatal period has focused on the following: 1) women with a history of childhood sexual abuse and its effects on childbearing; 2) the use of hypnosis and brief psychotherapy to alleviate clinical symptoms of pregnancy such as premature labor, hyperemesis gravidarum, bleeding; and the psychological issues of anxiety and depression; 3) attachment disorders; 4) issues of birth trauma and loss; 5) postpartum mood disorders; and 6) methods of pain relief in labor with self-hypnosis. In addition, she has a general practice with extensive experience working with grief and loss; trauma; abuse; dissociative disorders; anxiety; depression; somatic and medical disorders and conditions; family of origin; attachment and parent-child issues. She is a National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association, as well as the American Academy of Experts of Traumatic Stress. She is an EMDR Institute Facilitator, and Trainer, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and has incorporated EMDR into her work for the past 17 years. She consults and presents lectures and workshops on psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and EMDR nationally and internationally. > Publications Phyllis Klaus is co-author of several articles as well as Mothering the Mother, Your Amazing Newborn, Bonding, The Doula Book, When Survivors Give Birth, and a video, The Amazing Talents of the Newborn. > Contact E-mail: phyllisklaus@aol.com Telephone: 510-559-8000
	Michele Klein Michele Klein authored the National Jewish Book Award winner A Time to Be Born: Customs and folklore of Jewish birth (Jewish Publication Society).
	Natalia Kotlar Natalia Kotlar, PhD, has assisted with the birth of more than 2000 babies over the past 16 years. Her practice is based on the methodology of Marina Dadasheva Campbell Drown, Igor Charkovsky and Michel Odent. > More Information Natalia is the mother of five children. She gave birth to her first child in the hospital, and then birthed her next three children at home with her husband and other children. Her last child was born in the Indian Ocean.
	Jennifer Kozlow-Rodriguez Jennifer Kozlow-Rodriguez, ICCE (ICEA), is director of Previda, a childbirth and parenting center and president of the Association for the Betterment of Maternity Services (AMSEMA). Jennifer is editor of the childbirth magazine Padres de Hoy.
	Mary Kroeger Mary Kroeger, CNM, MPH, was a nurse midwife from 1980 to 2004. Mary held a Masters degree in Public Health and wrote regularly for Midwifery Today, most recently contributing Maiden Midwives, a series of interviews with aspiring midwives. Mary died on December 15 after more than a year battling cancer. > More Mary lived and worked long-term overseas in Somalia, Belize, Swaziland, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia. She was a specialist in safe motherhood, child survival, family planning, lactation management, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). Mary consulted widely for UNICEF, World Bank, USAID and private funders in Belize, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, China, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Swaziland, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan and Jordan. Her international work found her frequently counter-parted with Ministry of Health program planners, educators and policy makers, and in this role she tried to bridge the gap between developing country realities and western norms and standards that are brought in under the "development model." For two decades, Mary also remained clinically active and practiced midwifery in all settings: home, birth center and hospital delivery in and outside of the USA. Her first book, "Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding: Protecting the Mother and Baby Continuum" released in July 2003, reflects her philosophy of keeping mother and baby together at all times. > Articles Uterine Massage: A New Profession?