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At a national conference in 2023, I was excited to run into a midwifery professor I had learned from during my Bachelor of Midwifery. We talked about my journey since [...]

October 2001 Five years ago I tiptoed my entry in to India carrying within a latent, hidden familiarity with her people and culture. I was bringing with me my acquired [...]

The author reflects on the history of midwifery and her experiences as a midwife after a natural disaster hit London during the 1950's. Topics include tradition, nursing nuns, and poor housing conditions.

We midwives are widely known for asking questions. As embryonic midwives we read Niles Newton, Lester Hazell and Sheila Kitzinger. When our own bellies grew rich with child we had [...]

BIRTH AT CASA CLINIC, MEXICO I was working my Thursday all-day, all-night shift when the bell rang at CASA's emergency door. It was about 2:30 Friday morning and all else [...]

I WOKE ON my first morning in Mulanje to the blasting of country and gospel music. The flats where I am staying are for the single nursing and clinician residents--a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My mother gave birth to my younger sister when I was sixteen. They induced her at forty weeks, and I was present for the birth from beginning to […]

At the heart of most birth attendants' practice is a desire to keep birth safe, despite the fact that birth is not and never will be completely safe, regardless of [...]

When learning the art and science of midwifery, I was blessed to be mentored by the late June Whitson. To this day I am grateful to her for so much. [...]

During an evening shift at work, I was having a discussion with a fellow midwife about a baby that had been born with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). I began to [...]

There are many paths up the mountain and many vistas from each one. Once at the top, however, we will see that everyone, no matter which path they chose, has [...]

It is appropriate that the theme of unity is being presented at this time by Midwifery Today in reflection of 9/11. Unity stands for togetherness. It is a force that [...]

Sexuality pervades all parts of us as human beings, especially in midwifery care and childbirth. Perhaps that goes without saying for you--perhaps you know it and feel it, perhaps you [...]

For ages the expertise and experience of the elders was handed down to younger generations. It was not a matter of choice, merely a matter of survival. If they didn't [...]