Issue 117
Spring 2016
Theme: 30th Anniversary, Celebrating Midwifery
We are pleased to be able to celebrate Midwifery Today’s 30-year anniversary with our readers for the Spring 2016 issue. To celebrate midwifery, we chose thirteen of our favorite articles from thirteen of our most loyal and devoted writers and reprinted them in this anniversary edition. You will be able to read from the best of the best, including Ina May Gaskin, Penny Simkin, Michel Odent, Robin Lim, Sister MorningStar, Gail Tully, Elizabeth Davis and others, as we continue to provide you with only the best and evidence-based information surrounding childbirth. This issue also features some great new articles, including one about institutional biases in birth research—a must read! As an additional way to celebrate our readers and writers, we are pleased to announce that this issue will have our first ever color cover. Here’s to 30 more years!
Departments
- Poetry
- From the Editor
- Tricks of the Trade
- Marion’s Message
- IAPBP 2016 Image Competition Winners
- Media Reviews
- Classified Advertising
- Photo Album
Features
- Celebrating Midwifery
- How Being a Homebirth Midwife Enabled Me to Learn about Shoulder Dystocia—Ina May Gaskin
- The Fourth Stage: Sharing the Asian Way—Robin Lim
- First Hours after Birth: Family Integration and Mutual Regulation—Penny Simkin
- Childbirth from a Bacteriological Perspective—Michel Odent
- Managing First Stage Problems—John Stevenson
- Opening the Pelvic Brim with Walcher’s Position—Gail Tully
- A Vision of Birth—Sarah J. Buckley
- Waterbirth Basics: From Newborn Breathing to Hospital Protocols—Barbara Harper
- Global Midwifery and the Humanization of Birth—Marsden Wagner
- The Enduring Qualities in Midwifery—Elizabeth Davis
- A Difficult Breech Birth—Marion Toepke McLean
- Midwifing Second Stage—Sister MorningStar
- The International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI): A Human Rights Approach to Optimal Maternity Care—Robbie Davis-Floyd
- The Bond of Midwifery and Art—Annette Wilson
- Margaret Stephen: The Ironies and Instruments of an 18th Century London Midwife—Jane Beal
- Delayed Cord Clamping Requires a New Table for Stressed Newborns—Mary Esther Malloy
- A Slower Transition for Waterbirth Babies—Gail Hart
- Outside the Evidence: Births Missing from the Research—Sarit Shatken-Stern
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