NOT JUST A SPECTATOR
NOT JUST A SPECTATOR: HOW PARTNER PRESENCE CAN TRANSFORM THE BIRTH JOURNEY He’s standing in the corner of the labor room, not sure what to
Tag: Midwifery
A Word to Dads on Home Birth – From a Midwifes Husband
Let’s be straight from the start, the thought of a home birth scared the crap out of me. I’m a traditionalist when it comes to birth (or I was)
A Body of Knowledge
“When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.” – Ina May Gaskin
Midwives “Catching” Babies
You’ll often hear me say I “catch” babies. That’s because the mom, the one in labor, does all the work – MOM delivers her baby – the midwife catches.