Archives for Nancy’s Blog - Page 3
Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births
A car mechanic in Buenos Aires, Argentina saw a YouTube video about a simple technique for extracting a cork that had fallen into a wine bottle,, and then started thinking…
Birth Centers are Safe, Satisfying, and Cost-effective
Aurora Birth Center, Oregon; Thanks to Susie Corcoran, CNM, MS According to a study conducted by the American Association of Birth Centers and published in the Journal of Midwifery and…
International Definition of a Midwife
According to the International Confederation of Midwives, a midwife is "a person who meets the ICM Definition of the Midwife who has been educated and trained to proficiency in the…
Bravo! Kate Middleton Gives Birth With Midwives and Without Pain Medication
According to an article in the New York Post, "she kept calm and carried on. (more…)
Time Magazine: More US Babies than Ever Are Delivered by Midwives!
According to an article in the June 25, 2012 issue of Time, midwives delivered 8% of all babies born in the in 2009 - an all-time high. (more…)
Getting There – Special Section on Pregnancy in the Washington Post
The Washington Post Health & Science section on August 27, 2013 features several interesting articles on the impact of prenatal testing on the well-being of the pregnant woman and family,…
Natural Birth Triggers Protein in Newborn Brain that Improves Brain Development and Function
New study from Yale. (more…)
The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth
Dr. Alice Dreger writes in the April 2012 issue of The Atlantic, "If you look at scientific literature, you find over and over again that many interventions increase risk to…
“Natural” Cesarean?
This is fascinating - although an oxymoron (natural cesarean?), the article immediately and instinctively piqued my curiosity as a midwife. In recent years, even as the cesarean rate has soared,…
Why Is Labor Longer? and How Long is “Normal” Labor, Anyway?
Reported in an article by KJ Dell'Antonia in the New York Times on April 2, 2012, "births during the last decade take longer than they did in the early 1960s;”…