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Weight Gain Restrictions in Pregnancy By: Holly Dodd Though weight gain guidelines in pregnancy have been recommended by obstetric providers for years, less than thirty percent of women currently meet the given standards (Carmichael). This failure of most women to meet the guidelines, many gaining more than the recommended amount, has not resulted in predictably […]

Weight Gain Restrictions in Pregnancy by Holly Dodd

Pregnancy

A Case for Vaginal Twin Home Birth by Cassie Snyder According to U.S. estimates, the rate of C-sections for twin births jumped from 53 percent to roughly 75 percent between 1995 and 2008. Instead of treating the birth of twins as a medical crisis for which the mom must be subject to interventions and hospitalization, […]

A Case for Vaginal Twin Home Birth by Cassie Snyder

Labor and Birth

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I am teaching our Writing Class for the first quarter of the Indie Birth Midwifery School! While most of the 10 weeks is being spent on strengthening their more academic writing, we started the quarter off with more creative writing assignments. Here are a few of the poems that students submitted as assignments. I asked […]

Creative writing from Indie Birth students

Midwifery

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In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Jena la Flamme about instinctual eating in pregnancy, getting in tune with your “female animal” and other sexy stuff! Jena has devoted her life to showing women around the world how to be in tune with the innate wisdom of their bodies and how they too can […]

Listening to Your Female Animal in Pregnancy : An Interview with Jena la Flamme

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by Author Marea Goodman To be a part of the out-of-hospital birth community in the United States means that we must constantly wrestle with complicated race dynamics in the midwifery world and in our own communities. Most of us are aware of the staggering inequities that exist in this country when it comes to maternity […]

What White Midwives Can Do To Be Better Accomplices in Birth Justice

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I feel like this is a topic I revisit often in my own life, but hope that this will be of benefit to other birth attendants and families trying to understand the cost and value of their services. I’ll use my own package as an example of what is offered, and why care costs what […]

What’s In a Midwife’s Fee?

Pregnancy

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“Know Better; Do Better” Premature birth and the new paradigm By Jacque Campbell &nbsp &nbsp I begin these written thoughts with much care and love for the mothers and babies who have bravely faced premature birth and fought for the health to leave the NICU walls behind and often fight for health their entire life. […]

“Know Better; Do Better” – Premature Birth and the New Paradigm by Jacque Campbell

Pregnancy

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I had something that felt like a mix of a vision and a dream happen to me the other night as I was laying with my daughter at bedtime. My daughter was asleep, and as so often is the case I had my eyes closed too until I jerked my eyes open with a start. […]

The Police Officer In Your Head

Politics

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