Midwifery Today

12/02/2025

Are you thinking about becoming a midwife, but you’re not sure what kind of midwife you should be, or what training options would be best for you? Paths to Becoming a Midwife is designed to help you answer these questions. The 5th edition, in e-book format, includes 23 articles on various aspects of midwifery education.
Prefer print? The 4th edition is still available.
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12/01/2025

It's time for our monthly calendar check! Midwifery Today's website event calendar is your place to go to find events around the world and around the block!

Midwifery Today is built out of millions of small communities building into a global one. We are happy to post events from all over the world for you here on our calendar. Post your event by filling out this short form here! (Calendar Request Form)

11/30/2025

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This year, I have been approached by at least a half a dozen midwives to conduct chart reviews for cases pending with their regulatory agencies or to provide expert witness testimony for trials. Th…

11/28/2025

Cesarean Inter-Section by Terah R. Lara
A new cesarean method has been designed by an anesthesiologist and a midwife in the UK and acclaimed by participants. Anesthesiologist Felicia Plaat and Jenny Smith, CNM, co-created a “natural” cesarean in which women can have greater participation in the birth of their child regardless of the surgical route of delivery (Jentle Childbirth Foundation 2011). Overall, research has shown that mothers are more satisfied with their cesarean deliveries when the surgery is family-centered
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11/26/2025

Keep in touch with the world of birth with a Midwifery Today Online Membership! Choose your membership here. https://f.mtr.cool/shkidwkect

11/25/2025

Come to Minneapolis, Minnesota April 8th-12th, 2026 for the Midwifery Toda conference: Forty Years of Midwifery Today: Shifting the Paradigm of Birth. Planned teachers include Gail Tully, Joyce Vogel, Eudine Stevens, and Gail Hart.
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11/19/2025

Share your event with the world in our online calendar! Just enter the details in our online form and your event will be listed within 7 days. A first-tier listing is free. For a small fee, a second- or third-tier listing allows you to include more information
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11/19/2025

Reserve parking spots with our garden flags. Use our door banners to remind people to respect the process of birth.
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11/19/2025

Amniotomy and Cord Prolapse by Judy Slome Cohain
Rate of cord prolapse directly increases with increasing rates of amniotomy. Where amniotomy is never practiced and vaginal exams are extremely restricted, no cord prolapse is reported. Rates of 3–4/1000 cord prolapses were reported with 26–89% rates of amniotomy (Dilbaz 2006; Uygur 2002). In a study of inductions, which usually include amniotomy, a 7/1000 rate of cord prolapse was reported.
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11/18/2025

A Difficult Breech Birth by Marion Toepke McLean
Jennifer Braun, Colorado midwife and director of International Midwife Assistance and the Teso Safe Motherhood Clinic, was at her desk in the clinic in Soroti, Uganda, one morning, focused on paperwork. Jennifer had once told me, “I don’t do births in Africa,” leaving this to an excellent staff of Ugandan midwives. But on that lucky morning, she got a stuck baby born and saved a life.
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11/17/2025

Come to a Pre-conference Workshop with Gail Tully. Part of our conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 8th-12th, 2026. Other teachers include Joyce Vogel, Eudine Stevens, and Gail Hart.
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11/17/2025

Keep breech birth information at your fingertips!
Order and download our e-book Breech Birth, a collection of 15 articles by some of the greatest minds in the natural childbirth world. Articles in this e-book are from past issues of Midwifery Today magazine https://f.mtr.cool/apvvmieivy