I'm excited to share a guest post from filmmakers Jacob ; Honey Hesmondhalgh-Scott of Honey Bee Pictures . They are crowdfunding to supp...

I'm excited about a new book about midwives of southern Mexico: Touching Bellies, Touching Lives: Midwives of Southern Mexico Tell Their...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the amount of suffering and need around the world? Sometimes I feel paralyzed because I don't know whe...

I've discovered a bundle of recent UK midwife memoirs. I was reading retired midwife Sheen Byrom's reflections on the Human Rights i...

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 ...

Sarah of Delightful Pregnancy gave me permission to repost Jamie's birth story . Jamie (who blogs at High Countries ) gave birth in Jap...

"Chingona" served as a volunteer for the Peace Corps in Paraguay and describes her recollections of the local birth culture. (Repo...

I've been following California midwife Maria Iorillo's blog Women in Charge for several years. She recently arrived in Haiti and is...

A few days ago, The New York Times published this article about the current status of NY midwives: Doctors’ Group Fights a Bill That Would ...

"A midwife should have a lady's hands, a hawk's eyes, and a lion's heart." Aristotle This phrase on the cover of Lady...

I lived in Illinois for three years after completing my PhD coursework at the University of Iowa. Direct-entry midwifery in both Iowa and Il...

I've heard women say that getting in the car was the worst part of their labor. Well, if you think your 30 minute drive was bad, think a...

...does it take to change a lightbulb? None, according to Erik Lee in Bossy Midwives . Sometimes we just need to lighten up a bit when we ...

A study comparing the outcomes of all planned home births with registered midwives in BC is just out in the Canadian Medical Association Jou...

Several weeks ago I posted about collaborations, transfers, and attitudes towards home birth , including the research of OSU professor and C...

In the past few days a reader posted the following comment: why are you using a medwife ? I was a little disappointed in you for not UCin...

My mother-in-law just sent me a link to this article, Calgary college plans midwifery degree . There will finally be another four-year midwi...

Here are a few recent articles that are worth reading given recent discussions about VBACs , cesarean sections (elective or otherwise), and ...

I might start doing a weekly wrap-up of miscellaneous news & articles that I find interesting. If I wait much longer than week, they sta...

I enjoyed Jill's recent post about her thoughts on the midwifery model of care . She contrasts her two very different birth experiences ...