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Great Mama, Scorpio, Cosmic Red Tent.

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Teratogens and Zika

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In the Midwife's Office #4 Debriefing a Postpartum Hemorrhage

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I’m officially a student of midwifery. Although it sounds a little funny to say it like that as I feel like I’ve been a student beginning with the birth of my first child almost 19 years ago. Becoming a homebirth midwife was not something I had ever intended on. I did not see it in […]

“Why” Sheaffer is Becoming a Midwife

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Ok, so I’m going to try to make this as not personal as possible, but this story is too outlandish and ripe with incredible lessons to not share with the wider midwifery world. Once upon a time, we had an Indie Birth Midwifery School student who decided that she actually didn’t need an apprenticeship before […]

You Were Never a Midwife

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1375. That is the number of home birth midwives we were able to find email addresses for here in the United States. That is less that the number of students who went to my high school. That is roughly one midwife per 50,000 childbearing aged women in the US. And we wonder why midwifery is […]

We [midwives] are going extinct.

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by Carmen Southall-Wamhoff Your own introspection:  Please use the following questions as guides to create a well felt out journal/exploration paper on complex birth.  We expect that this paper will be as long as YOU need it to be as it is for you! Where does all of this leave you? What questions about complex […]

Carmen’s Thoughts about Twin and Breech Birth

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Considerations for Twin Home Birth Having a satisfying, empowering, confident, twin home birth is totally possible for families if that’s what they desire! I work with families when these criteria are met for home birth: Both parents are prepared for and committed to a home birth Both parents understand the increased work involved to grow […]

Considerations for Twin Home Birth by Leah Hymas

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Student: Elizabeth D My feelings around complex birth are…complex. I’m excited to provide the option ofsupport to women who fall outside of commonly set parameters for homebirth andhave in the past served VBACs, one set of twins, a couple breech babies, and manylong labors and mothers in their forties. I am the only option for […]

Complex Birth Theory and Technique

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Interview by Alisha Meyer It seems our whole industrialized medical system is based on machines. Patients are machines, Practitioners are machines, we use machines on machines. When do we get to the point where we start being treated as humans? Birth left to its own devices will result in death, or without my expertise there […]

Failing Birth Model Reflection

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