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...

Many women who birth outside of a hospital setting are changed by that experience for the rest of their lives. It begins in pregnancy as the...

The Decision to Use Pain Medication in Labor: For most of us from the very beginning being a mother is hard. It requires you to give of...

Whose Risk are We Talking About? "We must never underestimate the power fear of litigation holds over obstetricians. In my experi...

Listen to Ina May Gaskin, master midwife, author and recipient of the Right Livelyhood Award, shares her wisdom about  induction and due d...

Food for Thought: "In the early months, in most families, the mother-infant attachment is more obvious and more intense than that bet...

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 ...

I believe in breastfeeding both for the healthy growth of a child and the healthy growth of a mother. When a new mother breastfeeds she ...

Expectant mothers in my birth classes often worry about how long labor will last. Some of my doula clients fear labor will be like the San L...

Last week in the New York Times Roni Rabin reported on a new study coming out of John's Hopkins School of Medicine which throws a wrench...

(Ricky Martin gives his baby his first bath) One hour old. One hour of holding and gazing. One hour of nuzzling, smelling, latching a...

Every mommy needs a good laugh now and then, otherwise we would go absolutely crazy! Here is a list of blogs and books to help you through t...

A former doula & class client sent me a link to a blog piece by Cherylyn , a doula in Utah. Natalie knew I would be interested in this...

I've been explaining about delayed cord clamping and cutting in my classes for years. Leave it to master birth educator Penny Simkin to...

This is a must see by all pregnant moms, their partners and anyone who will be helping them at their birth. Of course we can crawl to the ...

Recently I have been asked this question by two very different women. Both are intelligent first time pregnant moms who desire natural non- ...