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From Healing Passage, A Suturing Manual for Midwives to Holistic Midwifery, Vol. 2: Care from Onset of Labor through the First Hours after Birth, Anne Frye's books are filled with information and insights that will help you better serve your clients. Do you have them all? If not, you owe it to yourself and your clients to complete your collection.

http:www.youtube.comuserBigPushTube The Big Push for Midwives YouTube Channel The Big Push for Midwives Campaign builds state-level advocacy campaigns to license Certified Professional Midwives CPMs in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and educates national policymakers about out-of-hospital maternity care.

As a home or birth center midwife, you may rarely encounter emergencies, but when they do happen, you need to know what to do. Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out-of-Hospital Midwives gives you the information you need. It takes you from the initial steps of intervention though definitive care, balancing a friendly tone and visual appeal with authoritative and clinically useful information. This book belongs on the shelf of every practicing midwife.

Article by Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD: A distressing cross-cultural trend is showing up in the growing body of anthropological literature about midwifery and birth in the developing world. From Tanzania to Papua New Guinea, anthropologists who observe professional midwives giving prenatal care and attending births increasingly note that, far from the midwifery ideal, professional midwives often treat women very badly during birth, ignoring their needs and requests, talking to them disrespectfully, ordering them around, and sometimes even yelling at them and slapping them. At the same time, and in direct correlation, the professional midwives are themselves often treated badly by the healthcare systems in which they work. ...

Article by Shafia M. Monroe: "People have often said to me, "You must really love babies to be a midwife.' And 'Wow, how you can stand all that blood?' Of course midwives love babies. We work hard to provide care to ensure that a woman has a healthy pregnancy and thus a vigorous baby. But in actuality, midwives love women. We love to see them happy during their pregnancy, supported during their labor, honored in birth, sustained while breastfeeding and nurtured as new mothers." This is an article excerpt from Midwifery Today magazine, Autumn 2008.

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