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Midwifery Today began as a magazine for midwives in 1986. In 1992 we held the first of 80 conferences in our hometown of Eugene, Oregon. In 1997, we expanded our educational reach through this website, with hundreds of free articles—successfully meeting our goal of helping all birth practitioners and parents to be the best they can be. We now offer memberships, providing access to hundreds more articles, many of which are clinical. We also have published numerous books and e-books, as well as audios of past conference classes, and videos, as well. All Toward Better Birth.

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Being Midwife by Harriette Hartigan

Tricks of the Trade: Issue 131 by Editorial

Wisdom of the Midwives: Fetoscope Use by Editorial

For the One, For the Many by Jan Tritten

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Quotes

It was a natural consequence that all obstetric procedures had their indication widened as their relative safety became established. But that any operation, because asepsis makes it reasonably safe and anesthesia keeps the patient quiet during its performance, should be so inordinately broadened in its scope that the suspicion is evidence that it is being done for the convenience and conservation of time of the operator, is a travesty on scientific endeavor.

H. Schwarz, MD. 1919

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

Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up. But maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

Grey’s Anatomy

…in feeding babies, two substantial mammary glands are more useful than the two hemispheres of a professor’s brain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Posterior Babies

Homeopathic Remedies for Back Labour and Posterior Presentation by Piper Martin Homeopathic remedies are a safe and effective means of treating a woman experiencing back labour. Read more….

The Birthing Pool Test by Michel Odent

Posterior Births and Babies by Mary L. Cooper

Learn about Prevention of Shoulder Dystocia by Editorial

Chiropractic Evaluation and Management of the Pregnant Patient: An Update from Recent Literature by Lindsey Zerdecki and Steven R. Passmore

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Hemorrhage

The Necessary Question of Infants’ Human Rights at Birth: Are There Vampires in the Birth Rooms? by Robin Lim A great discussion surrounding the use of infants’ cord blood. Midwife Robin Lim primarily works in Indonesia where many women suffer from postpartum hemorrhage. As a preventive measure, she teaches people to wait an extended amount of time before severing the umbilical cord.

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Allowing Birth to be Birth: Re-mystifying Second Stage by Kristi Zittle

Three Cases of Prolonged Second Stage Labor: Lasting 14, 17, and 24 Hours by Judy Slome Cohain

The Preceptor-Student Relationship by Sareanda Lourdes

The Doula’s Role by Jan Tritten

All hemorrhage Articles

Tricks of the Trade

Midwifery Today Issue 88

…in feeding babies, two substantial mammary glands are more useful than the two hemispheres of a professor’s brain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Midwifery Today Issue 91

Women’s bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

Sarah Buckley

Midwifery Today Issue 71
An Impulse to Soar: Quotations by Women on Leadership, compiled by Rosalie Maggio

Leaders have a passion and they have a picture or vision at some distance from the current reality. They use their passion to move them toward that vision, whether it’s something for their company, for themselves or for their cause.

Sandy Linver

Midwifery Today Issue 85

H. Schwarz, MD. 1919

Midwifery Today Issue 72

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Anne and Ray Ortlund

Midwifery Today Issue 73

Throw out the rule book.

Barbara Harper

Trauma

Fatherhood Following the Experience of Child Sexual Abuse by Charlotte C. Petersson With parenting in Sweden being more inclusive of fathers, this timely piece reports on a study of characteristics of fathers who had previously been sexually abused.

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