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• Thankful for Midwives!

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 119
  Happy Thanksgiving to mothers, fathers, babies, birth activists, midwives, and advocates across the country! Here is my birth world thankful list from 2008. Im still thankful for many of these same things this year. Im also thankful for two fabulously wonderful, amazing, enriching, inspiring new books. These two ...
  22 hours ago

• Grassroots Network: Happy Thanksgiving from the MAMA Campaign

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 119
  Dear Friends, Hoping each of you has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Feel free to forward the message from the MAMA Campaign to other lists… And don’t forget to write to your Senators! Sincerely, Susan Hodges “gatekeeper” MAMA Gives Thanks! The MAMA Campaign is moving forward with great energy and ...
  1 day ago

• Oprah.com article on alternative birth practices

  
  Radical Doula — Authority: 110
  I was interviewed for this Oprah.com article about alternative birth practices. It’s a pretty good overview of the standard aspects of alternative birth practices: midwives, doulas, out of hospital births, techniques like water. I seem to be the only source the author quotes, so here is a round-up of my ...
  5 days ago

• A First-Year Father’s 13 Things to Be Thankful For (Podcast)

  
  Dad-O-Matic — Authority: 491
  In a few weeks, my daughter Lucy will celebrate her first birthday. Last Thanksgiving, we had to skip the traditional two-hour drive home because my wife looked like she was hiding the Great Pumpkin under her shirt. At the risk of sounding like every other dad who’s ever lived, I can’t believe how fast the time ...
  6 days ago

• Staff Nurses and Midwives at a Christian hospital

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 165
  A Christian hospital wants the services of the below position for immediate employment,Position: Staff Nurses and MidwivesRequirements:Applicants must have at least 3 years post qualification experience and registered with the Nursing Council of Nigeria.Method of ApplicationInterested candidates should forward their ...
  6 days ago

• MAMA Campaign News and Webinar

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 119
  Grassroots Network Message MAMA Campaign: Great News! and Webinar Dear Friends, Im hoping most of you have signed up for MAMA Campaign updates (go to www.mamacampaign.org ). If not, here is the latest! (see below) The hard work by the MAMA Campaign has achieved a great step in the right direction, plus you can ...
  1 week ago

• Volunteer for Silais Health clinic in Nicaragua

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 154
  Silais health clinics are government competency for the low income population. These clinics are located throughout the country. Their main objective is to provide basic health care , standard first aid, and providing continuation through pregnancy and post-delivery women, since 50% of pregnant women are under ...
  1 week ago

• Midwives and Nurses required - Australia

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
  Nurses and Midwives for Australia  A fantastic opportunity to get out of Ireland and the UK during the Recession and head Down Under Australia is a stunning country offering good weather, excellent quality of life, a chance to Nurse somewhere new and exciting and a chance to learn to dive in the Barrier ...
  1 week ago

• Maternity guru Sheila Kitzinger says fairytale expectations of childbirth end with dashed hopes for women

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  New mothers are often consumed by guilt because they did not experience a "fairytale" version of childbirth one of Britains leading maternity experts has warned.
  1 week ago

• Homebirth Risks: Babies Three Times More Likely To Die

  
  Better Health — Authority: 576
  By Amy Tuteur, MD More than 10,000 American women each year choose planned homebirth with a homebirth midwife in the mistaken belief that it is a safe choice. In fact, homebirth with a homebirth midwife is the most dangerous form of planned birth in the US. In 2003 the US standard birth certificate form was ...
  1 week ago

• Ashley Judd: Please, Population Control Is Not the Answer for Congo

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 144
  Congos economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Why do these NGOs feel they have the right to regulate birth rates? Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• At Our Bodies Our Blog: Midwives in Virginia, Chronic Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 114
  At Our Bodies Our Blog, I have a post on research into the chronic pain experienced by some women for years after breast cancer surgery. I also have a bit about a currently open public comment period for a rule in Virginia that would apply to certified professional midwives in that state. Christine has a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Civil Society Petitions Malawi Government to Reinstate Tuition Subsidy for Nurses

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Malawi’s civil society organizations on Monday petitioned government over its decision to stop paying nurses and midwifery students school fees in the form of subsidies to train them at Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) colleges. The government, through Ministry of Health, announced early this year that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia: Home Births Outlawed?

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From ABC New Online : A rally has been held outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudds electoral office in Brisbane over a legislative amendment that protesters say will outlaw home births. About 300 women and children and a sprinkling of men turned out in showery conditions outside Mr Rudds Morningside office this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Contrasts.

  
  FRECTIS — Authority: 118
  I attended two births in one day, almost exactly 12 hours apart.  One was due last month, one was due this month.  One boy, one girl.  One woman surrounded by family, the other with only her husband.  One noisy, the other quiet.  One totally uncomplicated, the other almost completely complicated.  One born in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another wonderful Hypnobabies Birth Story!

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 123
  This time from a Hypnobabies Instructor in Atlanta !
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 114
  Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia Hates Liberty… and Mothers and Babies

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 428
  My very first post on ThePolitic.com was on the subject of some horrendous legislation in Australia that would effectively outlaw midwife assisted homebirth.  For those who aren’t familiar with the practice, midwife assisted homebirth is exactly what it says.  It takes hospitals out of the equation when it comes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Home Birth vs. Birth Center

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 129
  Pinky RN is looking for home-birthers to answer questions about home birth vs. birth center births:Would folks who want a homebirth because of the restrictive nature of the hospital, come to a freestanding birth center? Is there a demand for Birth Centers? Especially a Birth center across the street from the hospital ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fetal heart rate monitors no substitute for medical advice

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 540
  Fetal heart rate monitors shouldn’t be used as a replacement for a proper medical warned doctors. Doctors have published information in the British Medical Journal warning that fetal monitors, used to listen to a baby’s heartbeat, may give “false reassurance” and unnecessary anxiety to parents who use them. ...
  2 weeks ago

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