Midwifery Today

Issue 112, Winter 2014

Departments

• Poetry
• From the Editor
• Tricks of the Trade
• Marion’s Message
• Cards and Letters
• Media Reviews
• Discussions
• Classified Advertising
• Photo Album

Features

• Preeclampsia and Nutritional Priorities—Michel Odent
• Sick Pregnancies—Sister MorningStar
• How to Turn a Breech Baby to Head-down—Naolí Vinaver
• Stories to Learn From: Toxemia in Pregnancy—Mary L. Cooper
• Preeclampsia—Susun S. Weed
• Assuring Healthy Babies: Weight Gain in Pregnancy—Gail Hart
• Doris Haire, 1925–2014: A Tribute
• Merciér Therapy: The History Behind It—Jennifer Merciér
• Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project—Leilani Rogers
• The Deadly Itch: How My Midwives Saved My Babies’ Lives—Kim Gallina Viscio
• Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Proactive Approach to Prevention—Kim Vopni
• Emma Océane—Jonathan Angelilli
• The Paleo Lifestyle in Pregnancy—Tiffani Hoffman
• Newborns: Their Biological and Theological Uniqueness—Mary DeLashmutt
• Calcium and Vitamin C Supplements: Effects on Preterm Birth and Preeclampsia—Gail Hart
• The Childless Midwife: Justine Siegemund of Eighteenth-century Germany—Jane Beal
• Sowing Seeds of Change—Lina Duncan
• Birth in India: An Update—Lina Duncan and Vijaya Krishnan
• The Power of Placenta for Hemorrhage Control—Hollie S. Moyer

Cover photo by Synethia Rosa of Synethia Rosa Photography (synethiarosa.com). Synethia has been a lifestyle and birth photographer since 2010. She lives and photographs families currently in Sarasota County, Florida. She is a wife and motherto four children, three of whom were waterborn at home with a midwife. Her very first homebirth experience in early 2009 changed her life and inspired her to start documenting life with photography.
Pictured: John Modesto King, son of Gina and John King. This photograph was taken in July 2013 during an in-home newborn lifestyle session.