Coalition For Improving Maternity Services
Free Mother-Friendly Documents and Downloads The following documents are available for free downloads as PDF files from the Coalition For Improving Maternity Services. Permission is granted to freely...
View ArticleNatural Childbirth Doctor in Korea
Dr. Jung will soon be delivering babies at Soonchunhyang University Hospital. Dr. Jung is a huge advocate of natural childbirth in Korea....
View ArticleThe “Authorities” Resolve Against Home Birth
When will we remember that pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation are normal healthy physiological processes that are a continuum and do not require medical intervention unless there is a medical...
View ArticleMidwife at Auschwitz
Stanislawa was arrested in Lodz on February 18, 1943, with her daughter and two sons. The sons were sent to the labor camp at Mathausen and Gusen to work in the stone quarries. She and her daughter,...
View ArticleDown on The Farm
Right before Thanksgiving, Ricki and I got to fulfill a dream…visiting Ina May Gaskin at The Farm in Tennessee. We had always wanted to film Ina May at The Farm for BOBB but ran out of production funds...
View ArticleThe Symbols of Childbirth
Birth is often seen as a physical event of necessity – the unfortunate process needed to have the baby. The spirituality can be forgotten in the sterility of a clinical birth setting, with TVs on,...
View ArticleCowered by fear
I don’t know how to swim and when I venture in any swimming pool, I always end up like a talaba: immersed in water but clinging on whatever stable matter I can hold on to, never letting go. I fear...
View ArticleA Beautiful Letter About Life and Freedom
This is a letter that I got in an Email that is so beautiful and descriptive and it reflects the life of a Free Soul who has followed her Bliss, through the years, beginning in the wonderful ’60’s to...
View ArticleDo I have to leave my country and home to have my baby sanely?
“You really wanted a natural birth didn’t you?” I whispered into Julia’s ear, as she lifted her full weight off the bed into a semi-backbend, eyes blazing, doing all she could to get away from the back...
View ArticleWoman, 90, delivers great-granddaughter using 1940s’ midwifery training
Margaret Jones thought her days of being a midwife were over, until her granddaughter Kathy Shah, 32, went into labour and called for help last Friday. Despite having two artificial hips and not having...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
http://www.birthactivist.com/2009/05/happy-mothers-day/ Mother’s Day is a day to celebrate all we do as mothers. Rarely do we receive the credit we deserve for our work. Thank you for what you do as a...
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