Your body is not a lemon!
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.
The strangest request I have encountered was that of a first-time mother who—just before pushing—asked her husband for a jar of peanut butter and proceeded to eat two heaping table-spoonfuls. She then...
Contrary to myth, for instance, intrinsic physical characteristics only rarely interfere with the capacity to give birth. In other words, your pelvis is probably big enough for vaginal birth. Nearly e...
Our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
Midwives provide all the prenatal care healthy women need. The midwifery ideal is to work with each woman and her family to identify her unique physical, social, and emotional needs. In general, midwi...
I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person. I have learned I can choose to focus on the darker side or...
Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive.
The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This male-derived framework for care is a prod...
Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.
Marie Striekwold-Ebben, passed along this piece of wisdom: Even if you don’t have much money, keep in mind that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. Love and sadness are shared under t...
Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery...
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
I kept thinking while I was pushing, I’m going to get huge. I’m going to get huge! she said.
I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds.
Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most en...
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ, they would brag about it. So should we.