Issue 50
Summer 1999
Theme: Homebirth
Why homebirth? Issue 50 of Midwifery Today magazine explores numerous facets of this birth choice, from safety to autonomy, supplies to choosing a practitioner, healing past birth experiences, drug-free birth, self-empowerment, and more. Three favorite homebirth stories told by midwives help you understand the simplicity and joy of homebirth. “Homebirth allows the personality of each birth to unfold as it was designed to, in the midst of each family’s comforting space, unique gathering of people and things they treasure most.”
Contents
- Not Among Strangers—Valerie El Halta
- Why Homebirth?—Jill Cohen
- Homebirth: What Are the Issues?—Sara Wickham
- Home…Our Birth Right—Judy Edmunds
- Healing Through Homebirth—Cynthia Luxford
- Ultrasound: More Harm Than Good?—Marsden Wagner
- Drugs in Labour—Beverley Lawrence Beech
- Pelvises I Have Known and Loved—Gloria Lemay (also available online in Spanish)
- Hair-Line—Chris Green
- Elaine’s Birth—Ann J. Hines
- A Declaration of the Rights of Childbearing Women—Leilah Mccracken
- The Missing Squatting Bar—Nikki Lee
- 7 Recommendations for Sister Midwives—Lois Wilson
- Mourning the Professionalization of Midwifery—Lois Wilson
- Four Birth Stories—Deb Phillips, Vi Sadhana, Debby Sapp, and Allison Ratliff
International Midwife
- A Birth in Ecuador—Judy Blankenship
- All Was Well: Homebirth in Australia—Robin Payne
- Clara’s Birth—Sonia Thorens, Denis Richer, Andréine Bel, Bernard Bel
- Bringing the Old Ways Back—Clarebeth Loprinzi-Kassel
Departments
- From the Editor: The Personality of Birth
- Poetry
- Networking
- Tricks of the Trade
- Marion’s Message
- Question of the Quarter
- Journal Abstracts
- Media Reviews
- News
- Classified Advertising
- Calendar Advertising
- Photo Album
International Midwife
- From the Editor
- Cards and Letters
- International News
