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Placenta-ful Day with Robin Lim
Ibu Robin Lim during a late night Q&A session after screening the new film about her work after the tsunami in Bali, 'Guerrilla Midwife' Yesterday was a placenta-ful day, learning about...
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Anarchist Doulas Need A Secret Handshake
Describing oneself as an anarchist can evoke puzzled reactions…you know the look, when someone raises their eyebrows a bit and acts like they understand, when really they have no idea what you mean by...
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Midwifery 101 Online with Gloria Lemay
Childbirth guru Gloria Lemay is offering an exciting new online series of courses she calls MIDWIFERY EDUCATION 101. Whether you’re an ambitious doula or an aspiring midwifery student, the 16...
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Mamas of Color Rising…and Rising and Rising!
The momentum over at Mamas of Color Rising makes me tired just reading about them! They host a monthly potluck & clothing swap, they fundraise like crazy–I’ve heard their homemade empanadas are...
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Outlaw Midwives #2 is here!
Outlaw Midwives #2 is here! Thanks to the work, vision, intention, manifestation, joy, and rage of Mai’a Williams and the swarm of incredible folks involved in this zine. Read it online here, and...
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‘Guerrilla Midwife’ Now Available for Purchase Online
Ask and you will receive! After many months of folks wondering where they can purchase a copy of the Guerrilla Midwife documentary, it’s now available online at The Parenting Space for $24.99 USD....
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15 Minutes of Awkward Silence with Ina May
I, like the vast majority of North American birth junkies, have fantasized a time or two about meeting Ina May Gaskin. In the fantasies, we would hit it off (duh!), become best buddies, and my life...
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Robbie Davis-Floyd on Abortion Doulas
My recent interview with reproductive anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd appears in the current issue of SQUAT Birth Journal, and in it Robbie addresses the intersections of abortion, midwifery and...
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Birth Story: A Home Birth at the Hospital
Susannah and her husband spent months planning & preparing for a homebirth. they hired a homebirth midwife, hired me as their doula, took natural childbirth classes, ordered a birth kit, and got...
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Birth Pools Seized by FDA in Portland, OR
According to Barbara Harper, author of Gentle Birth Choices and founder of Waterbirth International, the FDA has seized a shipping container of AquaBorn birthing pools at a dock in Portland, Oregon,...
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FDA Returns Birth Pools, Warns ‘We’ll be back’
The seized birthing tubs have now theoretically been returned to their owners, but this fight is far from over. Barbara Harper, author of Gentle Birth Choices and founder of Waterbirth International,...
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71% C-Section Rate at Hospital in Miami
When I spoke with Barbara Harper last week, she casually mentioned that one hospital in Miami-Dade County has a 73% overall caesaerean rate. Uhmm, excuse me? 71% of Births are C-Sections at Kendall...
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We Are Not All Women: Midwives, Doulas & the Gender of Birth Work
Tucked inside the new issue of SQUAT Birth Journal #5 is my latest article “We Are Not All Women: Midwives, Doulas & the Gender of Birth Work.” The article shares the experiences of a transgender...
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Ibu Robin Lim Brings Midwifery to the Forefront (and wins $300k) as CNN’s...
When I met Ibu Robin Lim last year, she was promoting the documentary Guerrilla Midwife and selling t-shirts to fundraise for her Yayasan Bumi Sehat midwifery clinics in Bali. Today, she’s basking in...
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The homebirth witch hunts have finally hit home. Please support Marlene...
When I read stories about midwives being prosecuted, I cringe in sympathy and frustration–but there’s always a little piece of my mind that’s skeptical, wondering if maybe the midwife really did do...
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