Midwifery Today

11/19/2025

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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

11/16/2025

Premature Ligation of the Umbilical Cord by Patricia Edmonds
The placenta and cord are, in effect, organs of the newborn. The cord develops from the same tissue that makes up the fetal side of the placenta and this tissue is contiguous with the baby’s skin. Cord clamping is the first medical intervention experienced by most humans as part of the third stage of labor. Delay in clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord improves neonatal cardiopulmonary adaptation, increases blood pressure, improves oxygen transport and red blood cell flow, reduces the number of days on ventilation and oxygen with sick and premature infants and reduces the incidence of anemia.
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11/15/2025

Read the books in our Tricks of the Trade Series series for useful ideas and techniques that will help you help babies and mothers at births you attend. You'll learn tricks and tips from practicing midwives, childbirth educators, naturopaths, doulas and parents. Choose from three print books and two e-books
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11/14/2025

Sometimes, the best way to learn something is to see it! A DVD from Midwifery Today could be just want you need. Check. out our selection here
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11/14/2025

Thoughts on Homebirth Transfer by Mary Esther MalloyI’ll begin with a perspective on homebirth offered by a woman I worked with a few years ago. She said, “I am hiring a birth professional for the care I want. I hope I give birth at home, but I understand that there is a continuum of where I might give birth—home or hospital. What matters to me is that I will have my midwife with me. I think of it more as hiring a person I trust than planning a birth in my home.” Her attitude struck me as a very open place from which to enter birth. She was passionate about what she wanted (a high level of individualized care from a birth professional she trusted), and there was an ease about the birth itself.
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11/14/2025

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11/14/2025

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