Midwifery: April 2006 Archives

from thePolk County Itemizer Observer - Dallas, Oregon

Oregon has one of the best practice acts for both nurse-midwives and midwives without a nursing background.
Oh, and check out the earrings the midwife is wearing. Are they cool, or what?

over at a lovely new blog
see it here

NIH Cesarean Conference from the Childbirth Connection

Research and Education to Decrease Unnecessary Cesarean Sections

Prosecution of Midwife Casts Light on Home Births
New York Times (registration required - see bugmenot.com)

It isn't the moms that are demanding cesareans

American College of Nurse-Midwives reply to cesarean paper.
(PDF format, needs acrobat reader)

Coverage of the event by several major media organizations -- including The Washington Post, NBC's Today and Nightly News programs, and others -- presented women with a distorted view of the National Institute of Health's State of the Science findings, released yesterday.