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Baby’s Bedding: Is It Creating Toxic Nerve Gases? by Joanne B. Quinn death, SIDS, sudden infant death, crib death, toxic, baby, fungus, mattress, phosphorus, arsenic, gas Read more…. Baby’s Bedding: Is It Creating Toxic Nerve Gases?
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“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
Kofi Annan
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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
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…in feeding babies, two substantial mammary glands are more useful than the two hemispheres of a professor’s brain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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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
The Clitoris in Labour by Margaret Jowitt This interesting article discusses how the modern style of birthing on the back fails to account for the role of the clitoris in labor, as well as leading to more birth injuries.
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Why the Negative Birth Story? by Rina Crane Alongside inspiring and empowering stories of birth come negative stories of pain, scary interventions and unexpected outcomes. While it’s important to honor all stories, doula Rina Crane considers how we can all work “to help make the positive birth story the only one there is to tell.”
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Tricks of the Trade
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
Tricks of the Trade
Midwifery Today Issue 72
The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Anne and Ray Ortlund
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
Tricks of the Trade
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
Tricks of the Trade
Midwifery Today Issue 85
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
Tricks of the Trade
Midwifery Today Issue 73
Throw out the rule book.
Barbara Harper
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