I don’t do perineum stitches as much now as I did as a new midwife. I see the magic of the vaginal mucosa too often! Healing time is surprisingly quick […]
I love massaging new borns! This particular baby massage was so sweet because… 22 months ago I did the same baby massage for big brother Noah who is looking on. […]
Here is an awesome Dad’s Birth Story fromBirthvillage Natural Birthing Centreby new dad Rama Krishnan. Huge congratulations to these wonderful parents and for the choices they made together along the […]
Aspiring student midwives often ask me what it’s like to be an independent midwife. I get lots of emails, from all over the globe, students wanting to come to the […]
There are myths about birth out there that should be dispelled. The moment one person becomes two is the most amazing moment in all of existence. Sadly, it is a magic […]
Health care systems are the strongest where doctors and midwives are working together in collaboration, benefiting from each others strong points. It’s election fever in Singapore this week and I can’t help […]
With a solid presence we can melt, we can let go. I often get asked ‘because you are a midwife will you need a midwife when you give birth or deliver […]
Photo: Unison Photo (this is what a lifeless cord looks like and the appropriate time to cut) Birth belongs in the hands of the woman doing it. All birth is woman powered […]
This is an account of the Midwifery Model of Care through the eyes of a birth photographer/doula. I was at a birth recently. There was a birth photographer attending, to […]
This poster of birth positions is on the wall of a birthing suite in the Pius Hospital de Valls hospital in Spain. This picture was clicked by water birth advocate […]