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Guest Post: The World Needs Midwives – Now More Than Ever
This post is republished from the blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:The World Needs Midwives – Now More Than EverIt was 1980 in a nomadic community in Mauritania that I first attended a...
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Connecting with Doulas: Come Meet Us at DONA 11 and Online
Doulas are best known for their ability to reduce interventions and improve maternal satisfaction in birth. But doulas play other important roles, too, such as educating women about their birth...
View ArticleGRN: Transforming Maternity Care: Connecting Consumer Activists to the Larger...
Hello Friends,A new web tool - called Transforming Maternity Care - was launched this spring on the premise that a high-quality, high-value maternity care system is within reach. The web-based project...
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World Breastfeeding Week: Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding
It is World Breastfeeding Week this week! I hope everyone has found a way to celebrate the event in their own communities, or is communicating about WBW with their networks, including social networks....
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Book Review: Evolve…a woman’s journey
Book Review: Evolve…a woman’s journeyby Patrick StullStull Visual Arts, 2011Hardcover, 164 pages, $44.95Also available as an iPad app and as an iBook in Itunes for...
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Doulas & Homebirth
Earlier this month I posted to the CfM Facebook page asking for opinions about doulas at homebirths. I am the editor of the Friends of Missouri Midwives newsletter and was seeking contributions for the...
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Happy New Year!
When I began writing this blog for Citizens for Midwifery, one of my goals was to be collaborative in terms of networking with other maternity care activists across the country. To me, that means...
View ArticleGrassroots News: $40 Million Going Towards Early Inductive Election, Prematurity
Hello Friends,The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a campaign called the “Strong Start Initiative,” which is designed to decrease the number of preterm births occurring...
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International Women's Day---Guest Post: Wake Up Campaign
Today is International Women’s Day, an occasion to celebrate women and girls’ remarkable potential, inherent worth and vital contributions to our communities. It’s also a day to recognize that millions...
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GRN: CPM Symposium Offers Live Streaming
Hello Friends,Citizens for Midwifery is a proud sponsor of the CPM Symposium co-sponsored by NACPM and AME this coming weekend. We are very excited to both participate and support this gathering...
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Book Review: More Than a Midwife
More Than a Midwife: Stories of Grace, Glory, and Motherhood [Paperback]by Mary SommersMavenMark Books (HenschelHAUS Publishing) (October 1, 2011), 148 pagesISBN-13:978-1595981066 Reviewed by Molly...
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Book Review: Into These Hands
Into These Hands: Wisdom from MidwivesGeradine SimkinsPaperback, 300 pagesPublished by Spirituality & Health Publisher, 2011ISBN: 9780981870854Wisdom from Midwives Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk...
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Answer Ina May's Call: This Mother's Day, Support A Woman's Birth Choices
“{I am calling] for greater involvement of women in the formulation of maternity care policy and in the education of young women and men about birth. Women who are fully informed about the capacities...
View ArticleI am a Midwife Campaign
MANA has a great educational campaign going on right now called I am a Midwife. The campaign involves a series of short videos released once a week about a variety of topics. More than just a general...
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Guest Post: How to Avoid a Medical Induction Seminar
Are you interested in natural effective techniques to avoid a medical induction? Are you tired of seeing birthing mothers face a cascade of intervention that could be avoided?Are you frustrated with...
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Book Review: Pushing for Midwives
Book Review: Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movementby Christa CravenPaperback: 232 pagesPublisher: Temple University Press; 1 edition (October 28, 2010)ISBN-13:...
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AJOG editorial rejects the ethic that autonomy is a fundamental human right
Read it for yourself: Planned Homebirth: the professional responsibility responseThis article represents a serious attack on home birth and on patient centered care in the United States. The attack...
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Postpartum Survival Tips
“In western society, the baby gets attention while the mother is given lectures. Pregnancy is considered an illness; once the ‘illness’ is over, interest in her wanes. Mothers in ‘civilized’ countries...
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GRN: How Consumers Can Help Birth Centers Become A Reality for Every Community
The National Birth Center Study IIHello Friends,While the whole nation has been watching the cesarean section rate and cost of maternity care climb ever-higher, midwife-led birth centers have been...
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Documentary: The Mama Sherpas
A CfM Facebook fan recently posted to share some information about an interesting sounding new documentary about Nurse-Midwives:The Mama Sherpas follows nurse midwives, the doctors they work with, and...
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Happy Mother's Day!
“Blessed be all the mothers of mothers.Blessed be all the daughters of daughters.Blessed be all the daughters of mothers.Blessed be all the mothers of daughters.Now and forever, wherever we are.”...
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Film Reaction: Birth Story
(Crossposted at Talk Birth) Prenatal visitI have never met anyone with more than a passing interest in birth activism who has not heard of Ina May Gaskin. She isn’t referred to as a the world’s most...
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Book Reaction: Cut, Stapled, and Mended
To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect from Roanna Rosewood's memoir, Cut, Stapled, and Mended. After it arrived I actually wondered if I should have agreed to review it, because I have so many...
View ArticleNew Research on Planned Home VBAC in the US- Two Part Interview with Author...
The MANA Blog and the Science and Sensibility Blog have a two part post on important new VBAC research. It provides a much-needed analysis of VBACs in the home setting in the United States; an...
View ArticleChangemakers Unite! How To Build Lasting, Effective Midwifery Coalitions: A...
Citizens for Midwifery is presenting at the 2015 Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Conference: Shine! Plenaries Jeanette McCulloch and Nasima Pfaffl will present Changemakers Unite! How To...
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