This article made me want to stand up, raise my fist in the air, and sing something about solidarity and the power of women. If you th...

Homebirth Australia just issued a statement responding to the SA Deputy Coroner's recommendations to require health care workers to repo...

The Telegraph 's Anna Tyzach interviewed Monica Fitten about her midwifery training in 1950s London. Below are excerpts from her intervi...

Robin Lim, a midwife in Indonesia, was just named the CNN Hero of the Year ! She was well-known among many midwives in Iowa (where I did my ...

Today's "Birth Around the World" feature is a guest post by Pauline of Infomidwife . Pauline is an independent midwife in Aust...

I recently added a vertical/upright birth button to the left sidebar. Clicking on it will bring you to a list of posts mentioning upright b...

Rhiannon Laurie, a doula and student at Western Washington University, sent me the story of a birth she attended last year in Tajikistan. Rh...

Inspired by Brieanne's story of giving birth at night to the sound of coyotes, Anna wrote a generational saga of two births – her own a...

On the anniversary of the terrible earthquake in Haiti that took so many lives, I want to highlight a non-profit organization dedicated to i...

From The Wall Street Journal blogs: European Court Makes Home Birth Legal in Hungary Last year, Budapest resident Anna Ternovszky was looki...

Joanne is a software engineer in Ontario, Canada. Her first child was born in 2007 at Kitchener Ontario's Grand River Hospital , which s...

One of the midwife blogs I follow is Missionary Midwife Mama . She lives in Thailand and is a mother of four. She occasionally travels to ot...

Earlier this month, a woman gave birth on a Korean Airlines flight headed for the Philippines. Talk about a birth around the world--literall...