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Babies in the Cornfield - Stories of Maternal Health and Death from Around the World

What is it that makes frightened professionals crave control over a force of nature? How do women who give birth naturally explain their creative power and inner authority to those who prefer anest...
  • midwifeann published this 09 / 27 / 2009
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Are We Connecting

Women healers, or men healers who manage to live with their feminine side intact after education and socialization, aspire to wholeness and harmony with the self, the family, and the community. Th...
  • midwifeann published this 09 / 13 / 2009
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Do Mothers Count

The execution of any pregnant woman is not recorded as a maternal mortality in any country. That’s because the official definition of maternal mortality used in public records has no clause that me...
  • midwifeann published this 09 / 13 / 2009
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Birth is a Force That Gives Us Meaning_for Sage Woman Magazine_August 06

Midwives know motherhood is a gift to the light of consciousness for all humanity, and we recognize it as the connecting force that maintains the race. Birth is a force that gives us meaning, just ...
  • midwifeann published this 09 / 13 / 2009
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CARE Peru Case Study 12.14

How a CARE program in Peru helped change reproductive health rights and save lives. I was part of the evaluation team for this project and also wrote the Case Study. I'm very proud of what CARE acc...
  • midwifeann published this 09 / 13 / 2009
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Press News 9-4-09: Greater Access to Midwives will Decrease Infant Mortality Rate

Greater access to midwives will help decrease infant mortality rate. Where's my midwife? in Wilmington, NC, presses for more midwives in the Cape Fear Region. This press release examines the connec...
  • wheresmymidwife published this 09 / 09 / 2009
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Pinoy Hhr Exchange - July 8, 2009

The Pinoy Health Human Resources Exchange is a research on the strategies in facilitating the recruitment and deployment of doctors, midwives and nurses in the Philippines with the use of informati...
  • jasonabello published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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health human resource pinoy exchange in the Philippines

Health Human Resource Pinoy Exchange is a project of the Foundation for the Advancement of Clinical Epidemiology - Health Policy Development Program of the University of the Philippines. This prese...
  • jasonabello published this 07 / 07 / 2009
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Big Push Flu Press Release

Press release. As the country braces for a possible flue pandemic, advocates call on local, state and federal authorities to include certified professional midwives in disaster preparedness, due to...
  • Colette.Bernhard published this 04 / 28 / 2009
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Comparing Groups Supporting & Opposing licensing of CPMs

This flier shows the stark contrast between groups which support and oppose licensing certified professional midwives to make home birth safer.
  • Colette.Bernhard published this 02 / 24 / 2009
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The Truth About the Home Birth Safety Act

This flier sets the record straight about Illinois HB 226, the Home Birth Safety Act. Organized medicine has been misrepresenting the issues around home birth and the details of the bill. Learn the...
  • Colette.Bernhard published this 02 / 24 / 2009
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Block Oped

An OpEd piece from December 24, 2009, "Midwives deliver: America needs better birth care, and midwives can deliver it. " by investigative journaliset, and former health editor of Ms. Magazine, Jen...
  • Colette.Bernhard published this 02 / 18 / 2009
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Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse-Midwives: A Policy Analysis

The use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to provide primary health care traditionally provided only by physicians developed during the 1960s in response to a perceived sh...
  • macro published this 07 / 25 / 2008
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