Special Report: Midwives

May 05, 2011

In celebration of the International Day of the Midwife, May 5th, and Midwifery Month--Mothering.com will be featuring great new and classic midwifery content throughout the month. Keep an eye on this page for all of the newest content as we add it.

Photo Credit: Geradine Simkins, President of MANA, and client Liz O'Brien and baby Graciel

COMMUNITY FEATURE

• Ode to Midwifery: Stories and Images Celebrating the Midwives We Love

COMMUNITY

• A Community Forum for Midwives
• A Forum for Homebirth Discussion

ARTICLES, EDITORIALS AND BLOG POSTS

Recent

• Penny Simkin to Receive Honorary Degree from Bastyr University
• Bastyr University Educator Dedicated to 'Midwifing Future Midwives'
• Midwifery in the United States
  
• Why We Need More Midwives Now
• At The Black Midwives and Healers Conference
• More Midwives
• Diversity in Birth and Parenting Organizations
• US Infant and Maternal Mortality: A National Disgrace

Archives

• Having a Baby in America
• Married to the Midwife
  The Legacy of Black Midwives
  The Spiritual Midwife
  Mama Was a Midwife
• 10 Steps of Mother-Friendly Care
• Questions to Ask a Doctor/Midwife
  The French Male Midwife
  Ecstatic Birth
• Aqua Baby: Birth at Home in a Tub
  The Story of Midwives Care: A Birth Center in Cincinnati
  Fighting VBAC-Lash: Critiquing Current Research
  Home Safe Home: A VBAC - My Way
  Wake Up!
• Easing Tension and Fear in Natural Childbirth by Understanding Sphincter Law
  Homebirth at the Hospital
• How Childbirth Went Industrial: A Deconstruction
• Revealing the Real Risks: Obstetrical Interventions and Maternal Mortality
• The Turtle Women
• Warm Welcome: A Water Birth Revolution
  There's No Place Like Home
  Homebirth in Holland
  Caretakers of Homebirth: Doctors Who Come to You
• An Interview With Ina May Gaskin
  The Hidden Risk of Epidurals
  The Language of Birth
• Catching Babies in New Mexico
• Is Anyone Listening to the Parents?
• Reckoning with Birth

EXPERT ANSWERS

• Advocating Homebirth
  Safety of Care
• When to Contact Midwife
• HMO Insurance and Midwives
• Travel for Birth