These posts originally appeared as my Food for Thought series on Facebook . I wanted to provoke the women of San Luis Obispo county into thi...

This is Nora Lewis the certified nurse midwife who caught my son at Sierra Vista Hospital in 1990. That birth changed my life forever and ...

The story of midwifery in America is a classic power struggle for women’s rights, respect and choice; a tale of the clash of women’s cultu...

Food for Thought: I have thought a lot about how women decide whether to use a midwife or doctor for their birth. I think it really comes ...

Finally a book by a man, for men about pregnancy and birth! As a birth educator and doula for 20 years I have read many wonderful books abo...

"The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for ba...

Parker Wilson became a part of one of my favorite familys on January 14. Between Heather and John, brother and sister, I have been honored ...

Midwives are human beings with all the good and bad that goes with that. The alternative birth community would like to present to the rest ...

Today I stumbled upon an online debate over different views of midwifery. As commonly happens in arguments each side seemed to think it was...

One April a few years ago I picked up the phone. It was Brenda Ramler, a local midwife calling. "Hi. I'm working on a recommended r...

Ina May Gaskin is America's premier midwife.If not for her I don't know what would have happened to birth in this country. Her bo...

I love this humorous account of a local homebirth. The humor comes from her no nonsense down to earth truth telling about the challenges o...

Not sure about where to birth, hospital or home? When trying to decide where to birth I always advise my clients to look deep into their hea...

I don't believe the birthing women of San Luis Obispo have a clue how lucky they are. Even many of the women working in our birth commu...

Published in the SLO Tribune on Friday March 26, 2010 Hidden in the thousands of pages of the Health Care Bill that President Obama signed i...

This just e-mailed to me from Childbirth Connection, another group that worked hard to get important items for women and babies included in ...

I just watched President Obama sign into law the health care bill. People may disagree about this bill and what it means for our future. I...

I am too busy to write but there has been lots of important news about birth lately in the news. Here is the latest as of this morning. . . ...